Cool Courage Under Hot Fire
Clearly, a fight lay ahead in late July 1864, and Commander J. R. Madison Mullany keenly desired to take part in it. Commanding the sidewheeler Bienville, one of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron's ships, Mullany offered his services to its commander, Rear Admiral David G. Farragut. If Farragut's ships were to battle their way past the forts standing sentinel to Mobile Bay, he wanted to be there.
