[WhiskeyPapa]

In light of your unwillingness to even consider items of record that do not coincide with your historically inaccurate worldview surrounding Lincoln, for you of all people to question the familiarity of others with the historical record reeks of hypocrisy.

Show that I have considered these items and then discarded them.

In point of fact, your use of phrases like "tug boat" and "warship" show that you are guilty of some pretty mighty hyperbole. But then you pretty much have to, as your position won't stand being compared to the clear historical record.

Walt

[GOPcapitalist]

In light of your unwillingness to even consider items of record that do not coincide with your historically inaccurate worldview surrounding Lincoln, for you of all people to question the familiarity of others with the historical record reeks of hypocrisy. - me

Show that I have considered these items and then discarded them.- walt

I have no need to do so, as showing you to have discarded them presumes that you first considered them, which you have not done so in the first place. This is evidenced by (a) your refusal to address them and (b) your continual posting of information in direct contradiction with them despite you having been given the opportunity to correct your position with the historical record.

In point of fact, your use of phrases like "tug boat" and "warship" show that you are guilty of some pretty mighty hyperbole.

Only in kind, as a response to your own exaggerations. But as far as they go, I think it is generally true that the star of the west resembled a tug boat far more closely than it did a ship of war.

But then you pretty much have to, as your position won't stand being compared to the clear historical record.

Quod gratis asseritur gratis negatur.