[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Confederate War Department, at least, is alert to the danger. As John Beauchamp Jones says in his diary entry today.

“Pemberton permitted one iron-clad gun-boat to pass, and all our boats below are now at its mercy.”

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_7.html

[rxh4n1]

Thanks, I missed that. Pemberton was in a post too big for him. (A “what if” I think of sometimes is what if the “Arkansas” had survived.)