Another week has
passed over without any excitement, save what is occasioned by the preparations
for the attack on the Indianola, and what is afforded by the weekly visit of
the Federal gunboat Essex. This boat is said to be the best in their fleet
below this point. She wastes considerable ammunition in the woods, firing at
our pickets. On Thursday heavy cannonading was heard above, in which the
Indianola is supposed to have a hand. The preparations for the expedition are
nearly complete, and the Dr. Beatty, our flagship, will be ready to start in a
day or two. The Forty-first Tennessee furnished twenty-five volunteers for the
expedition, and of that number Captain Feeney's company furnished twelve good
and true men, excepting the writer, who goes as assistant ship's carpenter,
provided his detail is approved, according to the promise of Colonel Brend, who
commands the "Musquitto Fleet."
SOURCE: Edwin L.
Drake, Editor, The Annals of the Army of Tennessee and Early Western History,
Vol. 1, p. 23
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