| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| August 27, 1862 |
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| 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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