I'm not interested in reading something that is irrelevant to the point I made. Keep your focus on Porter, and Porter alone. Do not attempt to side track this discussion with details irrelevant to the point I am trying to make.
Porter went to Pensacola with the intent to start the war. He did so with hand carried secret orders hand written by Lincoln himself.
Look up *THAT* information.
DiogenesLamp:
"I'm not interested in reading something that is irrelevant to the point I made.
Keep your focus on Porter, and Porter alone.
Do not attempt to side track this discussion with details irrelevant to the point I am trying to make.
Porter went to Pensacola with the intent to start the war.
He did so with hand carried secret orders hand written by Lincoln himself." Union Col. Brown and Capt. Meigs were both in on Porter's secret mission to Fort Pickens.
They arrived aboard USS Brooklyn a day before Porter & Powhatan and completed their mission without Powhatan's help.
When Porter & Powhatan arrived on April 17, Brown sent Meigs in a boat to physically stop Porter from entering the harbor there because, he said:
"It will bring the fire of the enemy on the fort before we are prepared."
So, there's no actual record of shots being fired near Fort Pickens by either Porter or Confederates.
So whatever "secret orders" Porter had, his actual mission to Pensacola was accomplished without them.
Of course DiogenesLamp's devotion to Lost Cause fantasies is so strong it cannot be dampened by mere facts or lack of evidence.