OCTOBER 1ST
The Western Gunboat Fleet transferred from the Army to the Navy and the unit renamed the Mississippi Squadron. David Dixon Porter appointed Acting Rear Admiral and put in charge of it.
OCTOBER 3RD
A Naval expedition engaged Confederate troops on the Blackwater River in Virginia for six hours.
A joint Army-Navy expedition engaged and captured a Confederate battery at St. John's Bluff and occupied Jacksonville, Florida.
The CSS Alabama captured the Brilliant. bound from New York to Liverpool and sank it.
Naval force bombarded and captured the defenses of the harbor and city of Galveston, Texas. Six days later, the city officially surrendered. That city, Corpus Christi and Sabine City now under Union control. Farragut asks for "a few soldiers to hold the places."
OCTOBER 4TH
The USS Somerset attacked Confederate salt works at Depot Key, Florida.
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