The order of battle for the Union and Confederate forces at the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.
Commander : Rear Admiral David Farragut
14 wooden ships:
USS Brooklyn (screw sloop) — Captain James Alden
USS Galena (950-ton ironclad gunboat/screw steamer) — Lieutenant Commander Clark H. Wells
USS Hartford (2900-ton screw sloop; Farragut's flagship) — Flag Captain Percival Drayton
USS Itasca (gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander George Brown
USS Kennebec (gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander William P. McCann
USS Lackawanna (1240-ton steam screw sloop-of-war) — Captain John B. Marchand
USS Metacomet (1173-ton Sassacus-class "double-ender" steam gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander James Edward Jouett
USS Monongahela (screw sloop) — Commander James H. Strong
USS Octorara (981-ton "double-ender" side-wheel gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Green
USS Oneida (screw sloop) — Commander J. R. Madison Mullaney
USS Ossipee (1240-ton steam screw sloop) — Commander William E. Le Roy
USS Port Royal (sidewheel steamer gunboat "double-ender") — Lieutenant Commander Bancroft Gherardi
USS Richmond (screw sloop) — Captain Thornton A. Jenkins
USS Seminole (screw sloop) — Commander Edward Donaldson
4 ironclad monitors:
USS Chickasaw (1300-ton Milwaukee-class ironclad river monitor, twin-turrets) — Lieutenant Commander George H. Perkins
USS Manhattan (2100-ton Canonicus-class monitor) — Commander James W. Nicholson
USS Tecumseh (2100-ton Canonicus-class monitor) — Commander Tunis Craven (sunk by torpedo)
USS Winnebago (1300-ton Milwaukee-class ironclad river monitor, twin-turrets) — Commander Thomas H. Stevens, Jr.
Commander : Military Division of West Mississippi — Major-General Edward R. S. Canby (not present)
Commander: Admiral Franklin Buchanan (captured)
1 ironclad:
CSS Tennessee (1273-ton ironclad ram; Buchanan's flagship) — Captain James D. Johnston (captured)
3 gunboats:
CSS Gaines (863-ton side-wheel gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander J. W. Bennett (grounded and abandoned)
CSS Morgan (863-ton side-wheel gunboat) — Commander George W. Harrison
CSS Selma (320-ton side-wheel gunboat) — Lieutenant Peter U. Murphey (captured)
