Tuesday, March 2, 2010

PITTSBURG LANDING, April 23, [1862]

The gunboat Tyler, while reconnoitering up the Tennessee river, captured the rebel steamer J. Robb near the mouth of Crane Creek. This is one of the boats which eluded out first expedition up this river, after the fall of Ft. Henry. Her name has been changed to Lady Tyler. Weather rather more pleasant.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 25, 1862, p. 2

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