Civil War Trust Battles in October-- Part 1: First Union Ironclad, USS St. Louis, Launched

3rd--  1862:  Second Battle of Corinth, Ms. begins

8th--  1862:  Battle of Perryville, Ky.

9th--  1864:  Battle of Tom's Brook, Va.

12th--  1861:  First ironclad in U.S. Navy, the USS St. Louis, launched at Carondelet, Mo.

--Cooter