Union U.S.C.T. brought through Pensacola, FL. Two days later, the two nearby island batteries in the Blakeley River were abandoned. After this battle, Union forces were finally able to occupy the city of Mobile, Alabama, on April 12, 1865. Legacy The site of the battle is now a historical park, Historic Blakeley State Park. The American Battlefield Trust and its partners, including the Historic Blakeley Foundation, have saved 126 acres of Fort Blakeley Battlefield through November 2021. Opposing forces Union Confederate Notes References National Park Service CWSAC Battle Summary Update to the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields - State of Alabama Silkenat, David. Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. . External links The Battle of Fort Blakley: Battle Maps, History Articles, Photos, and Preservation News (CWPT) Mobile campaign (1865) Battles of the Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach of the American Civil War Union victories of the American Civil War Sieges of the American Civil War Battles of the American Civil War in Alabama Baldwin County, Alabama 1865 in the American Civil War 1865 in Alabama African Americans in the American Civil War April 1865 events