Tag: side-wheeler Sylvan Shore

Photographed at Alexandria, VA, May-June, 1863.

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868 says: SYLVAN SHORE; sidewheel steamer; 217 tons; 225 tons. Chartered Aug 25, 1861, for unknown period; Dec 18, 1862-Dec 12, 1863, operating on the Carolina sounds; Apr 22, 1864-Oct 14, 1865. Reported at City Point, Virginia, in June of 1864. Chartered Aug 26, 1866, for unknown period.