Civil War Day-By-Day

October 9, 1861

• Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Rebels attack Santa Rosa Island, Fla., and are repulsed by regulars and Wilson’s Zouaves.
• Advance of the Union lines beyond the Potomac; Lewinsville occupied.
• Charter election in Baltimore—no disturbance by the secessionists.
• All the banks in Pittsburg, Pa., resumed specie payments.

1. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863