On The White River
For the remainder of the war, she participated in the invasion of Arkansas, operating principally on the White River. Her last major combat with the Confederates came on 24 June 1864 far up the White River near Clarendon, Arkansas, when she engaged the Southern shore batteries which damaged and captured the gunboat Queen of the West. The beginning of 1865 found her still on the White River but by April she was at Memphis.
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Famous quotes containing the words white and/or river:
“Why do we then shun death with anxious strife?
If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?”
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“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
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