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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : 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 : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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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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