Friday cloudy & smoky The 27th Regt. of Ills. Vol. was transferred from the Steamer Silver Wave to the Steamer T. L. McGill One Steamer with One Regt. left here for Hickman Ky. to protect the citizens. Our Gun Boats continue to fire on the enemy.
SOURCE: Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 238
