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To: PeaRidge
Right about what?

Everything I post. But specifically the size of the resupply effort for Sumter and Pickens being considerably smaller than you claim. I can't vouch for the accuacy of the quote from Klein since I've not read the book. But I've read other books on the subject and the documents on Sumter in the OR and the idea that it was a dozen or so ships and 3,000 or so troops is not supported by anything I've seen in any source.

1,055 posted on 07/01/2009 6:05:53 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Here is Klein's summary again for you.

Harriett Lane- three 9-inch Dahlgrens, one 30-pounder Parrott Rifle, and one 12-pounder -to be used as an armed escort ship for the troop carrying passenger steamer Baltic

Pawnee-15 gun warship-crew of 94

Pocahontas-6 gun warship-crew of 95

Powhatan-warship-many guns plus 4-12 pounders-300 sailors and launches (Klein p414)

Baltic-civilian merchant/passenger steamer-10 small boats-300 men (troops) (Klien p358)

Illinois-civilian merchant/passenger steamer-carrying an unspecified number of troops (Klien p406)

Atlantic- civilian merchant/passenger steamer-600 troops aboard (U.S. Navy History records)

Yankee-ocean tug-returned to port

Uncle Ben-ocean tug-returned to port

Freeborn-ocean tug-never got to sea.

Just by itself, the Sumter supply fleet consisted of eight warships carrying 26 guns and 1,400 troops. (Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis Volume 1 p284).

You said: "(Right about) Everything I post".

Well, you made an error when you attributed the above data to only Klein. You incorrectly left out two other sources: 1. Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis Volume 1 p284, and 2.U.S. Navy History records. So you do make errors after all, don't you.

1,108 posted on 07/02/2009 1:23:01 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: Non-Sequitur
You said: "...that it was a dozen or so ships and 3,000 or so troops is not supported by anything I've seen in any source.

An exaggeration of the post that is not supported, and only designed to be a straw man that you will attack.

1,135 posted on 07/05/2009 7:01:12 AM PDT by PeaRidge
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