 "Brooklyn" during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram "Tennessee", in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864.Despite severe damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks from stem to stern, Halstead fought his gun with skill and courage throughout the furious battle which resulted in the surrender of the prize rebel ram "Tennessee" and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.After the war, Halstead settled in Toledo, Ohio, and worked for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway.