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Memphis News: River Battle Memories From June 1802
A Memphis dispatch recounts a dramatic Confederate gunboat engagement on the Mississippi River. The fleet, including the Benton Carondelet St Louis Cairo and Queen of the West, clash with Little Rebel and other ram fleets above the Arkansas shore. Descriptions detail the fierce cannonade, heroic saves, the Queen of the West breaking through, and the collapse of rebel forces as vessels explode and sink. Eyewitness notes praise federal sailors and mourn losses at riverbank amid astonished crowds.
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Memphis
United States
Herurum
United
Mississippi
Pittsburg
Wolf River
Lincoln
Benton
Carondelet
Louisville
St. Louis
Cairo
Mound City
Port Fillow
Wittshasp
Guito
Cincinnati
Mickman
Lesington
Col. Bilete
Arimy
Nikranera
Jeff. Thompson
Nempis
Craizhead Point
Thompson
Wrage
Geo. van Dorn
New Orleans
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Cruighuad Point
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Vickshur
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Bt. Lewis
Queen of the West
Monarch
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Conmodore Davis
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Louiaville
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