"I dun seen about everything, when I see a Gunboat Fly". rofl

Doyle and Terry,

This is a most enlightening discussion. Obviously this discussion has presented evidence that some of our contemporiary thinkings are incorrect. That the National Archives and DANF summaries are incorrect. Especially as to the date, location and circumstances of the CSS Ponchartrain's destruction.

Doyle

You make compelling argument that we may have also misinterpreted Hindman's report. And that our assumptions on the CSS Ponchartrain's presence on the White River in June of 1862 is now also suspect.

Terry

I think that the focus here now shifts.

If Hindman's report is now suspect, and without, as you said the CSS Ponchartrain daily Ships Log, it now becomes necessary to find some other proof of the CSS Ponchartrain's presence in the White River other than those references which we have relied on in the past. Especially when later reports, from both Union and Confederate sources, in the Naval OR's seems to contradict those same reference.

In any case, an excellant and educational discussion.