April 16, 1858
April 16 Friday – Pennsylvania arrived in St. Louis.
April 16 Friday – Pennsylvania arrived in St. Louis.
April 10 Saturday – Pennsylvania left for St. Louis.
April 6 Tuesday – Pennsylvania arrived in New Orleans.
February 6 Saturday – The Pennsylvania, now repaired and refitted, left New Orleans with William Brown as pilot, George Ealer as co-pilot, John Simpson Klinefelter (1810-1885) as Captain. Sam had procured a job for Henry as “mud clerk,” so called because the job required leaping to shore in places where there was no pavement or dock. The job did not pay, but was a way to rise in the ranks. Henry Clemens was nineteen, and would make six trips with his brother Sam [Powers, MT A Life 84].
January 20 Wednesday – New Falls City arrived in New Orleans.
January 14 Thursday – Sam may have made the return trip on the New Falls City, an 880 ton side-wheeler freshly built that month, with Captain Montgomery. The licensed pilots at this time were Chauncy Cable and Zeb Leavenworth. Sam possibly offered his steering services in exchange for passage [MTL 1: 75].
December 22 Tuesday – D.A. January arrived in St. Louis.
December 13 Sunday – Sam was a steersman under Joseph Edward Montgomery (1817-1902) on the D.A. January, which left New Orleans on this date. The captain was Patrick Yore. Montgomery would later serve as a commodore of the Confederacy’s river fleet, which was destroyed in June 1862 at Memphis.
August 3 Monday – Rufus L. Lackland arrived St. Louis.
July 23 Thursday – Rufus L. Lackland left for St. Louis.