Lieutenant Linn's Fearless Lambs

Street Scene In New Orleans

Lieutenant [William] Linn, with forty-three men, set out from New Orleans September 22, with a cargo of ninety-eight kegs of powder, nine thousand pounds, in barges.

Map Of Fort Pitt

The expedition reached Wheeling the following May, at a time when that post and Fort Pitt greatly needed the powder for protection and to further their dealings with the Indians.  In October, Captain Gibson, who had been imprisoned by decree of the governor, in order to quiet the suspicions of the British consul, was permitted to embark for Philadelphia on a vessel despatched by Pollock. [Source]

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