There are wonderful books online for those with highspeed internet and several of them are from Admiral David Dixon Porter. I first came across his name in an Elizabeth Custer book and soon gained an interest as I enjoy Naval warfare, especially when it is in the confines of rivers and lakes, and not the open spaces of the high seas.
While his father, Captain David Porter, plied the high seas in the War of 1812 off the coast of South America, until an English Captain violated common etiquette in warfare and broke his word, destroying the frigate which Dixon commanded, the real work of David Dixon Porter would be on the American rivers in the Civil War in securing them for the Union.
I would not give a hoot in hell or a dead bottle of vodka for a living one, a little Russ lingo there, for modern historians or memoirs as they are dipshits and dumbass Mockingbird liars and stooges. The only real information is in the linguisitics of that 19th century era and early 20th century era when people actually wrote the Truth of history in all it's accounts.
Admiral Porter before the Civil War was going to be stuck on the west coast doing nothing really and was lamenting that fact, when on walking home on a rainy, mud street Washington DC evening, he spied the lighted house with numerous carriages parked outside and decided to enter uninvited to this Southern home of a member of Congress.
The Belle was decending the stairs and in so doing they conversed and she was much excited as South Carolina had just seceeded from the Union.
She was on her way to the White House to tell Buchanan the good news.
Porter would escort her there and as she begged him to go with her to the President, Porter begged off as he knew what kind of firestorm would take place with the good news that the South had finally thrown off the coils of the North.
You have to understand this scene as this is real history and not that bullshit you get out of Roots or Hollywood propaganda. Here was the South lit up and celebrating wildly in the nation's capital. They were busy taking hold of their lands and forts in their state, while the federal was saying those were their properties.
In this, a black Congressman had been lecturing the South that day in Congress like impudent children and a Southern Congressman tongue lashed the representative who went skulking away in silence.
Porter would visit the Sec. of State the next day and Mr. Seward would ask him now to rescue the federal forts in Florida as President Lincoln would state, "We do not have a Navy to take a fort if the South gains control of Pensecola".
This was an odd time to modern readers as Seward tells Porter to join him, when Porter was but a Captain yet, as they just walked in on President Lincoln who was inquiring how to solve this major problem.
Porter explained that if this was handled through the Sec. of the Navy that all the cables would be sent to the South and they would check all the Northern movements before they began. That is vital to understand in this, in the United States military was not at all behind the Northern cause and were willingly giving information the South to check the federals.
You never hear information like that. It also explains a great deal in things, in Lincoln was not as great of a disaster in picking military leaders, when part of the problem was the majority of the Union military was feeding information directly to the South as the North was overstepping the Constitutional bounds.
It all came down to the reality that the South viewed the Constitution as a woman could divorce her husband, and the North said it was only until death did them part, and the North would kill the wife to make certain she obeyed the vows of the Constitution.
There is nothing in the Constitution which forbids the leaving of any state and in that preservation of the Union, the North was wrong, no matter what the leading Northern minds were espousing from General Sherman to President Lincoln.
What is of note is the Belle in this was busy telling Dixon the South would have a wonderful monarchy. Yes a monarchy and not a presidency. There has always been the intrigue and reality that the South was goaded into the Civil War by the European cartel, and here we find the reality of this American woman was throwing off Republicanism for a monarchy. She heard of this from some place and that was from European agents.
Until Obama became the Berliner boy of the cartel, one could find John Kerry, the now Sec. of State and this entire class of feudalists all espousing that "America must be more like Europe" nonsense. There has always been that seductive intrigue whispering to Americans to give up the Constitution.
Porter was offered being made an Admiral in high office. His reply was he would be the Duke of Benedict Arnold.
Porter would advise the President on a sound policy for Florida in giving Porter direct orders he would carry to New York, load a ship with supplies and ram it home to rescue Florida, before the South realized in cables what he was up to.
It is interesting in this tale that President Lincoln was concerned about chain of command and was reluctant to overstep. The Lincoln zeal later in suspending the Constitutional rights of Americans had not yet surfaced. Sec. Seward simply stated, "Mr. President, you are Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy and you can issue direct orders to them".
Licoln then went into one of his stories as he did indeed go into stories often. That is the travesty of late of this fiction in making all the leaders of the past, foul mouthed cretins, when they were not dropping the F bomb non stop nor talking trash.
For the reality, the F bomb was a sex act of rough sex as defined by street prostitution or forcing a woman you had desires on in English definition vocabulary. For Hollywood in that fag Daniel Day Lewis and debauchery to be speaking anything of the sort is ludicrous as hearing Lincoln go off with, "Blimey mate that bloody damn rebel state got more than wog problems".
Cursing in 1860 America was cursing as in using as curse. One would hear more about hanging Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree, as the type of profanity issued. The people of that era were very clever and loved double entendre, including sexual flirtation. They were educated, even in the ignorant ranks of local dialect.
Those are the realities of a history and not the fiction you have taught to you in propaganda. The South was furious in the indignities the North had put on them and having their necks under the Yankee feet forever. You never hear about slaves. It is about States rights in the Constitution and President Lincoln as was the North, including Admiral Porter were about Republicanism and preserving the Union and not about slaves.
What the Civil War was, was simply a marriage dispute in which the husband North was abusing the Southern Wife who threw the wife beater out. The net result was the North fed information to the Southern Wife in sympathy as elements in the North tried to beat her back into the marriage.
That is the real history for those with high speed internet if they would just read it. I never understand the sloven nature of the rich and the well to do, in they do not have to sit for 10 minutes to load a site as I do or travel 20 minutes to a public library for high speed, but still are too lazy to read a free book online. Of course, they would not know what the hell they were reading in the first place and that is why minders like Limbaugh are about to keep them on the plantation with Matthews on the left.
Google is where Dixon's book is, but for me very little of it ever loads. I prefer the real books, but at 60 to 100 dollars that is a deal I can only jump up and down about how wonderful it is like 10 cent steamships.
Oh well at least you have your millions and you learned something half assed as you were daydreaming about 10 other things and probably think Lincoln was trying to be King of Blimey.
One day if I had money, I would love to build a gunboat, mount it with cannon, build some fort thing, float down the river and shoot it for a bit just to discover what it was all about. That is the pity is I have the adventures in my mind and the rich have golf clubs and beamers as they trust others to do the thinking for them.
nuff said
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