Desc: The Battle of Mobile Bay Commemoration: Directed by Michael Marr. With Jim Fuchs, Ron Meszaros. Admiral David Farragut, a Southerner, leads the Northern fleet into Mobile Bay Aug 5, 1864. Met by Northerner Admiral Franklin Buchanan leading the Southern fleet in a fight to the death during the Civil War' largest naval battle. Farragut and Buchanan had served together as career officers in the U.S. Navy for 45 years. Now enemies, they meet in the shadow of Forts Morgan and Gaines at the entrance to Mobile Bay, the South's last remaining Gulf Coast seaport. The future of the Confederacy's imported war supplies is a stake.