the significance of Farragut's victory initially had little effect on Northern public opinion. As time passed and a sequence of other Union victories seemed to show that the war was winding down, the battle began to loom larger. When Atlanta fell, in the words of historian James M. McPherson, "In retrospect the victory at Mobile Bay suddenly took on new importance as the first blow of a lethal one-two punch." The dispersal of Northern gloom assured President Abraham Lincoln's re-election in what was regarded as a referendum on continuation of the war. With the capture of Fort Morgan, the campaign for the lower Mobile Bay was complete. Canby and Farragut had already decided before the first landings on Dauphin Island that the army could not provide enough men to attack Mobile itself; furthermore, the Dog River Bar that had impeded bringing Tennessee down now prevented Farragut's fleet from going up. Mobile did come under combined army-navy attack, but only in March and April 1865, after Farragut had been replaced by Rear Adm. Henry K. Thatcher. The city finally fell in the last days of the war. A number of Civil War-era shipwrecks from the battle and its aftermath remain in the bay into the present, including American Diver, CSS Gaines, CSS Huntsville, USS Philippi, CSS Phoenix, USS Rodolph, USS Tecumseh, and CSS Tuscaloosa. See also History of Mobile, Alabama Mobile Campaign (1865) Siege of Fort Morgan Union blockade Blockade runners of the American Civil War Bibliography of early American naval history References Anderson, Bern, By Sea and By River: The Naval History of the Civil War. Alfred A. Knopf, 1962; reprint, Da Capo. Calore, Paul, Naval Campaigns of the Civil War. Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland, 2002. Duffy, James P., Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut. Wiley, 1997. Faust, Patricia L., Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War. Harper and Rowe, 1986. Friend, Jack, West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2004. Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel, eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Century, c. 1894. Reprint ed., Castle, n.d. Johnston, James D., "The Ram 'Tennessee' at Mobile Bay." Vol. 4, pp. 401–406. Kinney, John Coddington, "Farragut at Mobile Bay." Vol. 4, pp. 379–400. Marston, Joseph, "The lashing of Admiral Farragut in the rigging." Vol. 4, pp. 407–408. Page, Richard L., "The Defense of Fort Morgan." Vol.