CAIRO, Jan. 24. – The two gunboats sent up the Tennessee and
Cumberland rivers, as well as the two boats off Forts Holt and Jefferson in the
Mississippi, are doing good service. The
Conestoga, Lieut. Phelps commanding, and Lexington, Lieut. Shirks commanding,
have been [spelling] in turn in the river within the past week. The Lexington chased the rebel gunboat under
the guns of Fort Henry.
The remaining gunboats are nearly completed at Cairo, and as
soon as men are supplied, we may expect to hear a good account of the fleet
under the command of flag officer H. H. Foote, wherever it is directed.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 4
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