At the Battle of Sabine Pass on September 8, 1863, Union casualties included men killed and missing from the USS Clifton and USS Sachem, including United States Navy personnel, soldiers from the 75th Regiment New York Volunteers, the 12th Maine Infantry, the 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry, and the 161st Regiment New York Volunteers. Among the dead were Executive Officer Robert Rhodes, Michael Driscoll, John Fraser, John Monroe, Henry Brown, William Glenn, Peter Lee, William Robinson, Thomas Ryan, Thomas Sullivan, Richar Turner, Calvin Williams, John Williams, and numerous privates and Signal Corps men named from the New York, Maine, and Massachusetts units. Missing were additional Navy landsmen and soldiers from the 75th Regiment New York Volunteers. Twenty-five African-American men fought there on behalf of the Union, twenty-two aboard the USS Clifton and three aboard the USS Sachem; their names were unrecorded, and all were missing and presumed dead.
