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Re: Porter's Dummy Ironclad
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You beat me to it, Steven :D I checked the ORNs and saw that the first one was noted in there on Feb 25.

Okay... so, it seems like we have evidence for both the "Wooden Dummy"/"Black Terror" (described in the ORNs much like the "Deluded People Cave In" illustration, but that motto is *not* mentioned), and the "Quaker Lafayette," two weeks later.

I do see a pattern... "Wooden Dummy"/"Black Terror" was made to look similar to INDIANOLA, which had passed Vicksburg a short time before, and "Quaker Lafayette" was sent after introducing the upper Vicksburg batteries to the genuine article a day or so before. Intelligent deception planning there.

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