SILVER WAVE: Built in Glasgow, Pennsylvania (other source gives Ohio) in 1854 for Capt. John S. McMillen (also given as McMillan) as a tramp steamer on the Ohio and upper Mississippi Rivers.
245 ton, dim. 159 x 35 x 5ft (draught)
On this day 150 years ago (2013), William Tecumseh Sherman reported to Grant's Assistant Adjutant General Lieutenant Colonel John A. Rawlins on the results of an attempt by three Union transports to run the batteries of Vicksburg the night before.
HEADQUARTERS Fifteenth ARMY CORPS, Camp near Vicksburg, April 19, 1863.
Lieutenant Colonel John A. RAWLINS, Asst. Adjt. General, Milliken's Bend;
SIR: As it may be a matter of interest to the general in command to know, I have to report that the fate of the three transports sent past the Vicksburg batteries during the night of April 17 is as follows:
SILVER WAVE, Captain McMillan, manned by officers and soldiers of General Ewing's brigade, passed the batteries safely without loss or damage.
SILVER WAVE. Sunk at Columbus, Ky., in 1873.
Erhard Jung
USA Forever stamp 2013 sg?, scott? (she is one of the transports)
Source http://www.kchsoc.org/cultural/boatinfo ... rypted.pdf
Source http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47262/47 ... appendix_A