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

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

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

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

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

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].

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].

February 24 Friday – A.B. Chambers arrived in St. Louis.

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

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