File:The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14576367767).jpg
DescriptionThe photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14576367767).jpg
Text Appearing Before Image: (208) Text Appearing After Image: A VIGILANT PATROLLER—THE SILVER LAKE In the ))icturt t.lie Silver Lake is lying off Vicksburg after its fall. While Admiral Porter was busyattacking Vicksburg with the Mississippi squadron, Lieutenant-Commander Le Roy Fitch, with a few smallgunboats, was acti\ely patrolling the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. It was soon seen that the holdupon Tennessee and Kentucky gained by the Federals by the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson would belost without adequate assistance from the iui\\, aiid Admiral Porter was authorized to purchase smalllight-draft river steamers and add them to Fitchs flotilla as rapidly as they could be converted into gun-boats. One of the first to be comjjleted was the Silver Lake. The little stern-wheel steamer first dis-tinguished herself on February 3, 1863, at Dover, Tennessee, where .she (with Fitchs flotilla) assisted inrouting 4,500 Confederates, who were attacking the Federals at that place. The little vessel continued torender yeomans service with the oth
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