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To: GOPcapitalist; 4ConservativeJustices; Gianni
[#3Fan] It's clear from my excerpt in post #484 that the sailors were to fight their way in to take the provisions to shore. They were fighting sailors and needed arms for such.

Yeah. Three hundred fighting sailors in a couple of unarmed rowboats, in daylight, fighting their way past the shore batteries.

If these "fighting sailors" needed arms they were sadly out of luck. The arms were with the soldiers, the soldiers were in USS Powhatan and that ship went to Florida.

As for the excerpt, so-called, it provides no citation, no link, and does not even identify the speaker. It should at least provide a link to a signed copy of the first edition.

489 posted on 03/04/2004 4:54:17 PM PST by nolu chan
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To: nolu chan
If these "fighting sailors" needed arms they were sadly out of luck. The arms were with the soldiers, the soldiers were in USS Powhatan and that ship went to Florida.

Didn't Lincoln send the Powhatan to Pickens under secret orders? I wonder what his motive was </sarcasm>

494 posted on 03/04/2004 6:22:05 PM PST by 4CJ (||) OUR sins put Him on that cross - HIS love for us kept Him there. (||)
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To: nolu chan
Yeah. Three hundred fighting sailors in a couple of unarmed rowboats, in daylight, fighting their way past the shore batteries.

That's what the captain's letter says, read it and weep.

If these "fighting sailors" needed arms they were sadly out of luck. The arms were with the soldiers, the soldiers were in USS Powhatan and that ship went to Florida.

The fighting sailors were sent elsewhere. Lincoln probably knew that as soon as word got out that he was going to provision Sumter that the rebels would attack immediately and so he sent the ship elsewhere. Good planning on his part because the rebels attacked before the ship ever arrived.

As for the excerpt, so-called, it provides no citation, no link, and does not even identify the speaker. It should at least provide a link to a signed copy of the first edition.

LOL! So it's a fake, huh? That's the trouble with you neoconfederates, anything that doesn't show the rebels as holy angels is tossed out as some grand conspiracy. You can't accept that people of the South are sinners just as everyone in the world are sinners. That's what causes you to have a screwed up view of history and causes you to hate everyone. And speaking of documentation, where's that signed armistice? Without that signed armistice, none of this matters. You jump my case for showing a letter that doesn't meet some kind of weird standard, but you base your whole argument on an armistice that we haven't even read or seen.

507 posted on 03/05/2004 1:26:53 AM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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To: nolu chan
As for the excerpt, so-called, it provides no citation, no link, and does not even identify the speaker.

The link is in post #442. I'm sure you'll dismiss it as a grand conspiracy though. lol

509 posted on 03/05/2004 1:36:33 AM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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