OCTOBER 23RD--
CSS Alabama captures and burned American bark Lafayette south of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
OCTOBER 24TH--
Sailors on horseback, a landing party from the USS Baron De Kalb, debarked at Hopefield, Arkansas, to engage a Confederate scouting party. The horses had been impressed (Holy Shades of War of 1812). A nine-mile fight ensued, ending with the capture of the Confederates. That had to be a funny looking group of sailors, but since this was a Brown Water action, perhaps the Union sailors were good horsemen.
OCTOBER 25TH--
Rear Admiral Du Pont is still worried about Confederate ironclads under construction from Charleston to Savannah and wants the "Ironsides (New Ironsides) and Passaic...dispatched at an early day."
OCTOBER 26TH--
CSS Alabama captured and burned schooner Crenshaw south of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
OCTOBER 27TH--
Rear Admiral Lee wrote to Welles about difficulty of blockading the coast of North Carolina, "Our supremacy in the sounds of NC can...only be maintained by iron clads adapted to the navigation there....The defense of the Sounds is a very important matter...."
"That, My Friend, Is a Horse of a Different Color." --Old B-Runner
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