The next morning all the vessels moved across to Cat Fish Point, five miles below Mobile, and landed at the Magnolia Race Course. The troops disembarked and began to march up the bay to the city. They found abandoned and evacuated forts along the way.
The Union command sent a message to the mayor of Mobile asking for his unconditional surrender. He replied that , since the Confederate Army had left the city, it he was in charge and would agree to their demands.
The Union Army marched into the city and took possession and planted the Stars and Stripes in the city and over all of the ir fortifications.
