June 27? Wednesday – Sam wrote brother Orion while on the City of Memphis (surviving fragments here):

What is a government without energy? And what is a man without energy? Nothing—nothing at all. What is the grandest thing in “Paradise Lost”—the Arch-Fiend’s terrible energy! What was the greatest feature in Napoleon’s character? His unconquerable energy! Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And to-day, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy, and fall down and worship it!

June 24 Sunday – City of Memphis left for St. Louis.

June 22 Friday – City of Memphis arrived in New Orleans.

June 19 Tuesday – City of Memphis encountered a storm about 11 AM at Terrapin Bend, 28 miles north of Vicksburg.

June 13 Wednesday – City of Memphis left for New Orleans.

June 10 Sunday – City of Memphis arrived in St. Louis.

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

May 31 Thursday – City of Memphis arrived in New Orleans.

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 24 Thursday – City of Memphis left for New Orleans.