OCTOBER 1, 1864: Major General John G. Walker, CSA, reported to the Confederate States War Department that ten sailors and Marines under Captain W.F. Brown, CSMC, and Lt. Marcus J. Beebee, CSN, had disguised themselves a passengers and boarded the steamer Ike Davis and had captured her off Brazos, Texas.
After overpowering the crew and imprisoning them below, they took the ship into Matagordo Bay, Texas.
Confederates had also done a like daring takeover of the steamer Roanoke just two days earlier off the Cuban coast. (See the September 29th entry).
--Old B-Runner
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