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A key approach to this city called Grant’s Pass was controlled by Fort Powell. In May 1865, 300 people were killed in this city by a huge magazine explosion at Marshall’s Warehouse. The last slave ship to arrive in the US, the Clotilda, brought (-5[1])Cudjo Lewis (-5[1])and the founders of this city’s historic community of Africatown. (-5[1])In this city, Franklin Buchanan supervised the defense (-5[1])of Forts Gaines and Morgan on Dauphin Island and the (emphasize) building of (10[1])the submarine Hunley. After the USS Tecumseh was sunk near this blockade-running center, an admiral ordered his three remaining ironclads to (10[1])make a mad dash through a minefield, popularizing the phrase “Damn the torpedoes!” For 10 points, David Farragut won an 1864 battle in what Alabama seaport’s namesake bay? (10[3])■END■

ANSWER: Mobile, Alabama [accept Mobile Bay]
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Dwight SolanoTexas A&M BIowa B43-5
Deepak MuthyalaTexas A&M ATexas A45-5
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William DawsonUBC AAppalachian State63-5
Truman FillbrandtUW AMichigan State A7610
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