page_title: USS Silver Lake (1862)
hierarchical_section_title: USS Silver Lake (1862)
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: photographichist06mill (find matches) Title: The photographic history of the Civil War&#160;: thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880- Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Publisher: New York&#160;: Review of Reviews Co. Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. 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 Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: USS Silver Lake (1862) was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
  She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat assigned to patrol Confederate waterways.
context_section_description: USS Silver Lake (1862) was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. 
  She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat assigned to patrol Confederate waterways.
caption: Silver Lake is lying off Vicksburg after its fall
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