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Pilot Skills on a 300-footer – The Unfettered life – Sam the Mason

January 7, 1860

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January 7 Saturday – A.B. Chambers arrived in New Orleans.
January 10, 1860

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January 10 Tuesday – A.B. Chambers left for St. Louis.
January 20, 1860

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January 20 Friday – A.B. Chambers arrived in St. Louis.
February 1, 1860

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February 1 Wednesday – A.B. Chambers left for New Orleans.
February 11,1860

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February 11 Saturday – A.B. Chambers arrived in New Orleans.
February 14, 1860

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February 14 Tuesday – A.B. Chambers left for St. Louis.
February 24, 1860

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February 24 Friday – A.B. Chambers arrived in St. Louis.
March 21, 1860

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March 21 Wednesday – According to records accessed at the Department of Commerce, Steamboat Inspection Service in St. Louis in 1925, Sam’s pilot license, initially issued Apr. 9, 1859 was renewed on this day [The Twainian, January 1940].
March 25, 1860

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March 25 Sunday – Sam became pilot of the City of Memphis (865 tons) and left St. Louis this day with co-pilot Wesley Jacobs, Captain Joseph E. Montgomery. Here was a 6-boiler, 300-foot behemoth of a boat. Branch asserts that Sam was a skillful pilot [Branch, “Mark Twain: The Pilot” 30].
“One time I mistook Capt. Ed Montgomery’s coat hanging on the big bell for the Capt. himself and waiting for him to tell me to back I ran into a steamboat at New Orleans” [MTNJ 2: 536].
April 2, 1860

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April 2 Monday – City of Memphis arrived in New Orleans.
April 4, 1860

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April 4 Wednesday – City of Memphis left for St. Louis.
April 11, 1860

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April 11 Wednesday – City of Memphis arrived in St. Louis.
April 14, 1860

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April 14 Saturday – City of Memphis left for New Orleans.
April 21, 1860

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April 21 Saturday – City of Memphis arrived in New Orleans.
April 24, 1860

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April 24 Tuesday – City of Memphis left for St. Louis.
May 1, 1860

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May 1 Tuesday – City of Memphis arrived in St. Louis.
May 4, 1860

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May 4 Friday – City of Memphis left for New Orleans.
May 9, 1860

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May 9 Wednesday – A family story told by Annie Moffett Webster disclosed Sam’s political leaning in 1860 (Annie was 8 years old). That year a third political party of old Whigs and former Know-Nothings called the Constitutional Union Party met in Baltimore and nominated John Bell of Tennessee for president and Edward Everett of Massachusetts for vice president.
May 14, 1860

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May 14 Monday – City of Memphis arrived in New Orleans.
May 15, 1860

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May 15 Tuesday – City of Memphis left for St. Louis.
May 22, 1860

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May 22 Tuesday – City of Memphis arrived in St. Louis.
May 24, 1860

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May 24 Thursday – City of Memphis left for New Orleans.
May 27, 1860

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May 27 Sunday – The St. Louis Missouri Republican published “a brief, matter-of-fact river report signed by him [Sam] and Wesley Jacobs, his City of Memphis copilot”
May 31, 1860

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May 31 Thursday – City of Memphis arrived in New Orleans.
June 3, 1860

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June 3 Sunday – City of Memphis left for St. Louis.

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