The Galena

The iron-clad sloop-of-war Galena was put into commission at New York on Monday afternoon of last week. She has a picked crew, selected from the crews of the Cumberland, the Congress, and the Roanoke, and her officers are said to be all young, active, and intelligent. Commander John Rodgers, it is stated has been ordered to take command of her. All the qualities and equipments of this ship are of the first order, and we shall, we think, before the lapse of many days, learn of her presence in other waters than those of New York.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1