NP, MAP 8/27/1862

From the Memphis Appeal
 
August 27, 1862
 
Yankee Gunboat Lovell on the Ground
All her Stores and Ammunition and thirty Stolen Negroes fall into our Hands -- *****
Plain's Store, La., August 20
Editor Mississippian,
   The Federal gunboat Lovell, which had grounded near the coal pile , at Bayou Sara, was recently captured by the Mississippi cavalry and destroyed. Thirty negroes belonging chiefly to the West Feliciana railroad company, a quantity of small arms, ammunition and stores were taken from the boat.
   *****
Citizen

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