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To: BroJoeK; DiogenesLamp
Brojoke offers this: "Your unsubstantiated claim of 'secret orders' is just that unsubstantiated.
I've neither seen nor heard of such.

Now you have Brojoker. All of this is from the "Official Records" as well as various biographies.

April 1, 1861
To: Commandant, Brooklyn Navy Yard

You will fit out the Powhatan without delay....She is bound on secret service; and you will under no circumstances communicate to the Navy Department the fact that she is fitting out.

Signed: Abraham Lincoln

April1, 1861 by General Scott
April 2, 1861 approved by Abraham Lincoln
To: Brevet Colonel Harvey Brown, U.S. Army

You have been designated to take command of an expedition... without delay proceed at once to your destination. The object and destination of this expedition will be communicated to no one to whom it is not already known.

April 1, 1861 To: Lt. D.D. Porter, USN

You will proceed to New York and with least possible delay assume command of any steamer available.

This order, its object, and your destination will be communicated to no person whatever...

823 posted on 07/26/2016 1:03:53 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: PeaRidge
...and you will under no circumstances communicate to the Navy Department the fact that she is fitting out.

...The object and destination of this expedition will be communicated to no one to whom it is not already known.

This order, its object, and your destination will be communicated to no person whatever...

And I say again, what possible use does a "re-supply" mission have for secret orders?

824 posted on 07/26/2016 1:09:14 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: PeaRidge; DiogenesLamp; x; rockrr
PeaBrain referring to Lincoln's alleged "secret orders": "Now you have Brojoker.
All of this is from the "Official Records" as well as various biographies."

But your buddy DiogenesLamp implied those order were still secret and unknown to us today, when in fact they were first published in the New York Times later in 1861.
So there is nothing "secret" about them today.

Nor is there any mystery as to what they ordered.
These "secret" orders said the same thing that Lincoln directly told South Carolina Governor Pickens at the time:
Lincoln's mission was to resupply-only Fort Sumter and no reinforcement would be attempted so long as they met no resistance.

851 posted on 07/28/2016 4:49:45 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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