Civil War Day-By-Day

October 15, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Jeff. Thompson captured 50 Union troops at Potosi, Mo.
• Three steamers dispatched from New York after the “Nashville.”
• Defeat of the rebels at Frederick, Mo.

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