Your recollection of events doesn't pass muster. The way I recall it, There was a dicsussion concerning the lack of success of the Union army in Texas; probably initiated by either rustbucket or GOPcapitalist. You responded with a list of what you considered considerable Union victories, one of which was the capture of Ft Jefferson Davis.
GOPcapitalist pointed out to you that Ft Davis was abandoned by the confederates, and that the Union forces had only to deal with indian raiders during the occupation, and you proceeded to engage in a symantics debate about the word 'capture.'
Sound about right to anyone else?
Indeed. It was a classic case of taking a historical event and embellishing it to make it something more than it really was, likely due to a chronic lie addiction. I also seem to recall it was claimed that the so-called battle of Fort Davis struck a great "symbolic" blow to Richmond since the fort's namesake was Jefferson Davis. In reality, Richmond never even heard about it and nobody in the entire confederate government even knew that the yankees had camped out there for a single night before abandoning the place until after the war. Yet again, his bizarre need to embellish the truth with falsehoods kicked in and now he's mad because he got caught.
Therein lies the problem.
That was clear from the passage that was intially posted. The Union forces captured several several "abandoned" forts in west Texas. But then again, are they really "abandoned" when you leave your sick and wounded behind? Or have the soldiers been abandoned?
Spot on perfect recollection.
As I indicated in my #4719 above, I concur in your recollection generally and have some observations of my own.