I am no "Ralph Nader" of Confederate States Navy web sites, but I certainly believe in correct and proper information being shown at all these web sites. I have to stress forcefully that readers should always approach many of these Confederate States Navy web sites with extreme caution, as I have found lately. The information shown at many of these sites can be misleading, and sometimes downright absurd, with statements that are often hatched within the feeble mind of the author. It is best to refer to the sources of such information, if shown (which is often not the case at many of these sites), and even then to try and cast further for any additional data. Some such errors, encountered recently are shown here as examples:

**One web site on CSN paymaster Clarence Yonge indicates, without any foundation whatsoever, that he was court-martialled, when he was, in actual fact, dismissed without such a privilege. This web site actually includes quite a large number of errors, and no attempt has been made to correct this, although it was published several years ago.

**Another web site on CSN engineer William Param Brooks, states that he had received news of his promotion to chief engineer while he was in France, when, in fact, Brooks was appointed as such after he had left, aboard the CSS STONEWALL, and his notice of appointment, available at the Georgia Historical Society, shows as much.

**Another web page, by a different author, relates that Albert L. Drayton, of the CSS FLORIDA, and later one of the members of the Read expedition, had not gone to prison after being captured, but had travelled on a US warship for some months, and the author emphasises this with the word "codswallop" shown in brackets. Yet, if this particular author had taken the trouble to check further on Drayton, within the pages of the Naval Official Records, he would have seen that Drayton had been sent to Fort Warren, and had been there for nearly a year before he offered helpful information to Secretary Welles of the U.S. Navy Department, and was then released to go in search of his old cruiser, the FLORIDA. We can see in this case, where the codswallop actually came from!

Many of these authors seem unable to conduct proper research before making their misleading statements. One even tried to divert attention from the real issue of his errors, by pointing out those at my sites. However, if there are any errors at my sites, they are obviously shown at the sources I have named (and all my sites are very adequately sourced), and, if I am provided with ample evidence that they are in error, I will correct them in future updates. Some of the errors at my CSN PERSONNEL web sites are actually sourced to information from a volume, which, in retrospect, this particular author likes to claim full credit for.