 The rioters reached the office of Mayor R. H. Slough and demanded relief from the food shortage.When Slough promised to get them food, the mob broke up and the ladies returned to their homes.In August 1864, Union Navy Admiral David Farragut's warships fought their way past the two forts (Gaines and Morgan) guarding the mouth of Mobile Bay and defeated a small force of Confederate gunboats and one ironclad, the "CSS Tennessee", in the Battle of Mobile Bay.