Talk:First Battle of Fort McAllister

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Major expansion

I have made a major expansion of the article based primarily on Durham's work. Schiller's work (often a rehash of the prior NPS booklet) does not check out as well vs. sources so it is used far less. I would provide an image from the NPS booklet as well, but the NPS site with some of the historical booklets is unreachable at the moment (odd because it was the cr.nps sites that have been an issue, but these links have not in the past.) Chrisman's work is older and not included, because Durham's largely appears to be an improvement in detail upon it. Red Harvest (talk) 10:59, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Expanding timeline/scope of battle

It looks like it would be best to expand the scope of this battle summary/description past that of the actual final engagement and treat it as a longer operation. (I'm not proposing renaming as that doesn't appear necessary.) The reason is that this was a series of engagements that tested the fort, the new monitors, and the mines. Making the suggested change follows the pattern of The Civil War Battlefield Guide 2nd Ed. which used the same American Battlefield Protection Program designation in the NPS link, but gives the dates as Jan. 27-March 3 and refers to the set as "Union Naval Attacks on Fort McAllister: January-March 1862." The Guide's casualty summary seems to reflect this by showing a single CS casualty (battery commander killed in earlier action) although there were actually other Confederates wounded as well in this action, but none in the final March 3 engagement. Red Harvest (talk) 22:58, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]