"There is Fort Morgan, with Fort Gaines three miles from it on the other side of the channel.

Mobile Point, as it is called at this end of the neck, extends many miles to the eastward.

It is less than two miles wide where it is broadest, and not over a quarter of a mile near Pilot Town." "I have studied the lay of the land very carefully, for I have had some ideas of my own," added Christy, as the commander paused.
"If Fort Morgan had been Fort Sumter, with bad memories clinging to it, an effort would have been made to capture it, either by bombardment by the navy, or by regular approaches on the part of the army," continued Captain Breaker.

"They are still pounding away at Fort Sumter, because there would be a moral in its capture and the reduction of Charleston, for the war began there.

Such an event would send a wave of rejoicing through the North, though it would be of less real consequence than the opening of Mobile Bay and the cleaning out of the city of Mobile.