John Bankhead Magruder was an American and Confederate military officer. A graduate of West Point, Magruder served with distinction during the Mexican–American War and was a prominent Confederate Army general during the American Civil War.
The Union Navy blockaded the principal seaport, Galveston, for four years, and federal troops occupied the city for three months in late 1862. Confederate troops under Gen. John B. Magruder recaptured the city on January 1, 1863 and it remained in Confederate hands until the end of the war.
They would hae blackouts to prevent them from being spotted by bombers in the sky. Street lights would be turned out and people would hand blackout curtains to block the light from inside their houses
