Talk:Battle of Port Royal

Secrecy

Concerning the secrecy of the expedition, mentioned in the third paragraph: The New York Times of 26 October 1861 has an article on pages 1-2 with headline 'The Great Naval Expedition.' It gives the entire Federal order of battle, down to the regimental level.

I confess that I don't know what to do with this. The information doesn't seem to appear in most histories, and therefore might be excluded under the 'no original research' stricture of Wikipedia. On the other hand, it is so blatant that it suggests that the writers of those histories did not do their homework. What shall we do about that?PKKloeppel (talk) 03:37, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

copy editing

Two names in the article appear to need copy editing:

1. Other sources give the name of the island on which Fort Beauregard was situated as Saint Phillip's Island.

2. "Fort Wagner" is indicated in one instance, where Fort Walker is otherwise being discussed. I suspect that is should read Fort Walker.

Answer: You are dead right about Wagner/Walker. Fort Wagner (actually Battery Wagner) was on Morris Island, near Charleston. As for Phillips/Saint Phillips Island, choose your poison. The only Civil War map I know shows it as Phillips. (Official Naval Records, ser. 1, v. 12, following page 262.) Google Maps gives it the name Saint Phillips. For those who have fun picking nits, note that the earlier map puts the fort at Bay Point, which according to Google is on Bay Point Island.