Here's another one for you to think about re: transfer of the Arkansas to Greenwood. Maybe Cmdr. McBride wasn't the laggard everyone has said he was (1st commander). According to Gen. Smith's report (OR, I,15: 7), the bell boat was obtained and the iron was fished up from the sunken barge before Lt. Brown arrived on the scene. Maybe the barge sprang a leak and sank requiring and receiving immediate action (remember, according to the mess list for the Capitol steamboat published in OR, Lt. Guthrie, the future efficient commander of the Albemarle who was sent over to check out things by Gen. Beauregard, was still aboard and may have handled the matter--he didn't leave until Brown arrived)--or maybe Smith was confused on names. At any rate, please check it out and let me know what you think.