MARCH 20TH, 1862: Flag Officer Foote ordered Commander Henry Walke, USS Carondolet: "You will avail yourself of the first fog or rainy night and drift your steamer down past the batteries, on the Tennessee shore, and Island No. 10 ... for the purpose of covering General Pope's army while he crosses that point to the opposite, or to the Tennessee side of the river...
"...that he may move his army up to Island No. 10 and attack the rebels in the rear while we attack them in the front."
Five days later, Walke made his heroic dash past Island No. 10 to join the Army at New Madrid.
--Old B-Runner
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