We have good news from Vicksburg to-day. The Queen of the
West, lately captured by us, and another gunboat, attacked the Indianola, the
iron-clad Federal gun-boat which got past our batteries the other day, and,
after an engagement, sunk her. We captured all the officers and men.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 264
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