October 24, 1862: Mounted Sailors Fight Confederates in Arkansas

OCTOBER 24TH, 1862:  Sailors on horseback -- a landing party from the USS Baron De Kalb, Captain John A. Winslow,  debarked at Hopefield, Arkansas, to engage a small Confederate scouting party.

Mounting horses, which were procured, as Captain Winslow reported, "by impressement," the Baron De Kalb sailors engaged in a nine mile running fight which ended with the capture of the Confederate group.

I thought the Baron de Kalb's commander's name sounded familiar.  Winslow later commanded the USS Kearsarge when it sank the CSS Alabama.

--Old B-Runner