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To: lentulusgracchus
No. Look it up like I did. No homework assignments, Non-Sequitur. We aren't here to run errands at your beck and call.

Of course not. Well, their's nothing I like better than chasing down Southron fairy tales.

413 posted on 06/18/2009 8:28:48 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Well, have a look if you like. Correct my date, though, to May 9th not April 9th, my fault for relying on memory. Battery exchange at Gloucester Point between Virginia Militia and the federal schooner Yankee. My source doesn't say who started it.

The significance of that date is that the Virginia secession vote was still two weeks away, so Virginia was still in the Union.

The other incident I was thinking of was the Rhoda Shannon incident on April 3 in Charleston harbor, which we've discussed in the past. You insisted iirc that the Confederates were trying to sink the Shannon, and the other side said no, no, those were only warning shots.

420 posted on 06/18/2009 9:44:54 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Non-Sequitur
Of course not. Well, their's nothing I like better than chasing down Southron fairy tales.

The only fairies are in your basement.

427 posted on 06/18/2009 10:06:19 AM PDT by central_va
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