The Union prisoners learned of the capture of Mobile on August 9th, just the next day after the event occurred. This shows that Foote and his comrades were receiving timely and reliable news inside the city jail, most likely from the Charleston Mercury newspaper. Union forces began a siege of Mobile Bay on August 2nd resulting in its fall on the 8th.
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