We have exciting news from the West. The iron-shod gun-boat,
Queen of the West, which run past Pemberton's batteries some time since,
captured, it appears, one of our steamers in Red River, and then compelled our
pilot to steer the Queen of the West farther up the river. The heroic pilot ran
the boat under our masked batteries, and then succeeded in escaping by
swimming. The Queen of the West was forced to surrender. This adventure has an
exhilarating effect upon our spirits.
Hon. James Lyons sent to the President to-day a petition,
signed by a majority of the members of Congress, to have me appointed major in
the conscription service.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 262
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