Important Dates in Fort Morgan's History

1819 Construction begun on fort at Mobile Point

1833 Fort named for General Daniel Morgan

1834 Fort completed and garrisoned by Company B, 2nd Artillery.

1841 - Dec 31 Garrison withdrawn and fort put in caretaker status

1861 - Jan 4 Civil War begins, Alabama Militia seized fort from caretaker

1863 - Apr 30 Fort's commander, Lt. Col. C. Stewart, killed in the explosion of a cannon

1864 -Aug 5 Battle of Mobile Bay

1864 -Aug 9 Union troops landed east of fort, siege began

1864 -Aug 23 Fort surrendered to Union forces

1865 Civil War ends

1867 - Dec 31 Garrison withdrawn, fort placed in caretaker status

1898 - March Spanish-American War, Fort reactivated, garrisoned by Battery I, 1st Artillery.

1917-1918 Fort used as training base during World War I

1923 Fort deactivated, put in caretaker status.

1941 Fort reactivated, manned by Battery F, 50th Coast Artillery Corps, Navy and Coast

1946 Fort deactivated and turned over to State of Alabama