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To: PeaRidge; rockrr; x
PeaBrain on Confederate forces assaulting Fort Sumter: "That was a grand total of 46 guns."

It's curious that the same Wiki-piece you quote from also reports the following:

This source says: "The next morning, at 4:30 a.m., Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter and continued for 34 hours.
The Civil War had begun!"

This source says:

And that may, finally suggest an explanation here.
Where Wiki says, "4003 guns and mortars", this source says "43 guns in a ring".
If 43 is correct (and it does seem more realistic), then perhaps that figure of 4003 is just a typo, somehow adding zeros where they don't really belong.

It would not be the first mistake uncovered by these Civil War threads.

;-)

767 posted on 07/23/2016 9:28:57 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK; PeaRidge; DiogenesLamp
BroJoeK: "It would not be the first mistake uncovered by these Civil War threads."

ROFL.

This entire Civil War thread has been an exercise in advancing blatant historical revisionism and one monumentally insane "mistake" after another.

Btw -- "Pea Brain"?

*smh*

I'll refrain from the obvious: "BroJOKE." Because anyone who makes analogous, #Fort Sumter = Pearl Harbor; #The Confederacy = WWII Japan needs to contact the Mother Ship. Bones McCoy needs to examine you :-) ;-)

771 posted on 07/23/2016 10:28:32 AM PDT by HangUpNow
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