Distances on the Mississippi River

Now that Co. Foote’s fleet of gun and mortar boats has started down the Mississippi, the following table of distance from one place to another beginning with St. Louis, will be of general interest:

	Miles
St. Genevieve	60
St. Mary’s Land’g	12
Chester	8
Liberty	10
Wilkinson’s	10
Cape Girardeau	50
Commerce	15
Cairo	35
Columbus	20
Hickman	17
New Madrid	38
Memphis	165
Helena	85
Napoleon	100
Columbia	65
Princeton	50
Lake Providence	25
Vicksburg	75
Grand Gulf	50
Rodney	20
Mouth of Red River	65
Bayou Sara	35
Port Hudson	12
Baton Rouge	23
Plaquamine	20
Donaldsonville	35
New Orleans	78

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 2