I'm shameless. I admit it freely. You know, instead of selfishly bumping the thread, you could have been researching whether or not Nashville had a ship-to-shore radio.
Maybe they radioed back to Beauregard and he locked and loaded based on that.
Walt
I suppose I could pull a stand waite and say that I don't go out of my way to look up references for you or any other damnyankee/scalawag/lincoln worshiper but instead let me get back to you on that radio thing.