Birthdays
Jeremiah W. Asher
Turns 49 on this date
Lafayette Curry Baker
Turns 35 on this date
Henry Haywood Bell
Turns 53 on this date
George William Brown
Turns 49 on this date
James Cook Conkling
Turns 45 on this date
George Purnell Fisher
Turns 44 on this date
Edwin Lycurgus Griffith
Turns 23 on this date
William Lyon
Turns 42 on this date
John Rock
Turns 36 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Off the Tortugas, the U.S.S. Keystone State captures a Confederate blockade runner bound for Florida | 10/13/1861 |
| Education/Culture | The United States Navy celebrates the eighty-fifth anniversary of its founding | 10/13/1861 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Herald, “General Sherman in Kentucky,” October 13, 1861 | 10/13/1861 |