I think you're confusing me with someone else. I've never heard of the book.
However, since he frequently quotes the “OR”, then you would accept his facts, wouldn’t you?
Not without seeing what his fact are. You quote a lot of things but quite often the meaning you imply and the actual meaning are quite different.
Well, let’s do a fact check then. Feel free to pull out your copy of the “Official Records.”
Who was Gustavus Fox? Was he an active Naval Officer in April of 1861?
Was he ordered onto a ship to sail to Charleston that April, and if so, what date?
What were his orders?
What other ships were ordered to accompany Mr. Fox to Charleston?
What Federal ship was disguised for transit?
Were these vessels traveling in secret?
What Federal ship started firing on civilian shipping as it lay at the entrance to the harbor?
Were Charleston authorities given early warning that Federal ships were on the way?
Was it common knowledge among the people of Charleston that a fleet was coming?
Did the President of the Confederacy state that the new government would protect the city of Charleston from invasion?
Then that would mean I was using non-sequiturs.
That is your realm of argumentation, not mine.