Magruder recaptures Galveston and lifts the blockade
January 1, 1863, Galveston, Texas.
- Date
- January 1, 1863
- Where
- Galveston, Texas
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 59 of 174
The Confederate cottonclad Bayou City, out of Houston, captured the USS Harriet Lane, and the Union commander blew up the grounded Westfield. Union troops ashore laid down their arms and the rest of the fleet withdrew to New Orleans. The blockade of Galveston was lifted for four days, and the city was the only major port still in Confederate hands at the end of the war.