At the Club House, conference by Jean-Claude Janssens: “The Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864". After the fall of New Orleans in 1862 and the loss of control of the Mississippi River in 1863, only one port on the Gulf of Mexico remained in the hands of the Confederates: Mobile in Alabama. This situation did not last. After several months of preparation, Farragut’s Union squadron forced its way through the fire of the defending rebel forts, entered Mobile Bay and annihilated Buchanan’s Southern flotilla on August 5, 1864. The Confederacy now relied permanently on the services of the blockade runners in the bay and harbor of Mobile. The city itself only fell into the hands of the Union on April 12, 1865. With the aid of period maps, documents and photographs, Jean-Claude will elaborate on the above event, which was unique in its kind.