Fort Morgan, Alabama

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Fort Morgan, Slag Point, Alabama, 1864, showing damage to the Citadel. The Citadel was a ten-sided barracks located in the center of the fort, used to house the enlisted men. The wooden roof of the Citadel caught fire during the 1864 siege, and the structure was destroyed. Postwar repair crews did not rebuild the structure, but instead razed it to the ground.

Fort Morgan is a fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States. The post was named in honor of Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan. Construction was completed in 1834 and it was first garrisoned in March of that year.

In the American Civil War during the Battle of Mobile Bay, Union land forces besieged Fort Morgan. General Richard L. Page commander of the fort was forced to surrender on August 23, 1864. Fort Morgan was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960. In 2007 it was listed as "one of the nation's 10 most endangered battle sites" by the Civil War Preservation Trust in History Under Siege: A Guide to America's Most Endangered Civil War Battlefields^[1]^[2]

Fort Morgan is also the name of a small community west of Gulf Shores.

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See Fort Morgan and the Battle of Mobile Bay for a lesson on the Battle of Mobile Bay from the National Park Service's Teaching with Historic Places.
Friends of Fort Morgan