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To: PeaRidge
And your source for that, that will refute both the Official Records, and Davis, and the US Naval Records?

Two of those three sources refute your claim, and Davis' claim, that there were 1400 troops bound for Sumter and/or Pickens. The OR, and the link you posted earlier, prove Davis and you to be wildly exaggerating the number of troops involved. "Allegiance" by David Detzer puts the total at 200. Your own link posted earlier puts it at 160. You are proven wrong by your own sources.

1,166 posted on 07/05/2009 12:44:10 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
You said: "Two of those three sources refute your claim, and Davis' claim, that there were 1400 troops bound for Sumter and/or Pickens."

Go ahead and quote those sources for us.

You said: "Allegiance" by David Detzer puts the total at 200.

On page 231 of "Allegiance" by David Detzer, he states that the Baltic carried 200 troops as you said. However, you conveniently failed to state that Detzer, in his very next sentence, said that "Ordered to protect the Baltic were three naval vessels, the Harriet Lane, the Pocahontas, and the Pawnee. Detzer himself failed to report, according to the Official Records, that the Pawnee was carrying an additional 200 men.

So it would be true to say that you and Mr. Detzer failed to tell the full story.

1,196 posted on 07/06/2009 2:49:22 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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