Assigned To Mississippi River Operations
Linden departed Cairo 9 January escorting charter steamer Home and five coal barges to Memphis, Tennessee. After convoy duty up and down the Mississippi River, Linden was ordered to cooperate with General Ulysses S. Grant in cutting a canal between the Red and Black Rivers through Tensas Bayou. The project was pressed vigorously but as Porter later noted
- “...there were miles of forest to work through and trees to be cut down. The swift current drove the steamers (Army transports) against the trees and injured them so much that this plan had to be abandoned.”
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