April 10th. This morning we got under way and steamed down the river a short distance, where we came to an anchor, and sent boats with boatswain and armed crews on shore to procure logs for ships’ side. They returned with several large ones for that purpose, and also some hogs they had shot in the bushes for their own consumption.
While at anchor here, according to orders previously given two of our engineers, with a working party composed of firemen and coal heavers, after removing boilers and machinery and all articles of value, went to work with hammers, axes, &c., demolishing our fairy boat and prize J. D. Clarke and sending her hull to the bottom of the Mississippi by means of scuttling. Weather exceedingly warm and calm. Returned during this P. M. to our anchorage off mouth of Red River.
