Augustin Vérot, Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, circa 1865

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted by John Osborne, Dickinson College, April 9, 2015.
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Rt. Rev. Augustine Vérot, D.D., Third Bishop of Savannah
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Catholic Editing Company, The Catholic Church in the United States of America (New York: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), 199.

In Alabama, the Union's capture of Spanish Fort makes the city of Mobile's fall only a matter of time

Spanish Fort was one of the two main defenses of Confederate Mobile, Alabama, the other being Fort Blakely. A Union campaign begun to take Mobile from the land had made progress under General Edward Canby.  A concerted twelve day effort against Spanish Fort was succesful when significant portions of the fort were stormed and the defenders evacuated.  Fort Blakely fell the next day and Mobile was powerless to resist federal occupation. (By John Osborne)
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Near Wetumpka, Alabama, nineteen year Union Major John F. Weston, a future general, wins the Medal of Honor

During the final days of the Union campaign in Alabama, federal troops recived information of a group of riverboats moving a significant amount of supplies salvaged from the fall of Montgomery to Confederate troops operating further up the Coosa River, near Wetumka, Alabama.  A small detachment of Kentucky troops under nineteen year-old Major John F. Weston swam the river, overpowered the guards, and took the vessels into Union hands.  Weston later was awarded the Medal of Honor for his exploit. (By John Osborne)  
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