150 Years Ago: October 13-15, 1863: Union Operations

OCTOBER 13TH-14TH:

USS Queen City, with troops, departed Helena, Arkansas, for Friar's Point, Mississippi, where the soldiers landed, searched warehouses and took 200 bales of cotton and made several suspects prisoners.

OCTOBER 15TH:

USS Commodore and Corypheus destroyed a Confederate tannery at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, burned the building and destroyed a large amount of hides.

Union control of the water enabled them to incessantly attack and raid wherever they wanted.

--Old B-Runner