High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The new monitor departed Mound City on 15 October to join the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and arrived New Orleans, LA on 27 October. There she prepared for action against Mobile, AL. On 22 November Lieutenant Commander James H. Gillis took command of the ship. Rear Admiral David Farragut had won a decisive victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August, closing that port to the Confederacy. However, the city was still in Confederate hands. To defend it, the South heavily mined the shallow water which led to the city, filled it with formidable obstructions and erected batteries to shell any ships which managed to penetrate the fixed defenses.

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