A gun-boat passed up
by Eastport, going perhaps one mile and a half above, then turning, went back
down the river without firing a gun. I, with some others, being on picket at
Eastport, concealed ourselves on a hill near by and watched the maneuvers of
the boat. We had a good view of the river.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 164-5
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