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 |