OCTOBER 4TH, 1864:
The CSS Florida arrived at Bahia, Brazil, for provision and coal. Within three days the Florida's brilliant career as a commerce raider would be at an end.
Confederates destroyed the lighthouse at the entrance from Albemarle to Croatan Sound, North Carolina. Commander William H. Macomb, USS Shamrock, reported: "It was blownup and afterwards set on fire so as to make the destruction complete.
OCTOBER 5TH, 1864: The USS Mobile seized the blockade-running British schooner Annie Virdon south of Velasco, Texas, with a cargo of cotton.
--Old B-Runner:
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