Question of the Week: What advice would you give Admiral David Dixon Porter?

If you could go back in time and give Admiral David Dixon Porter one piece of advice or factual information, what would it be and when would you want to tell him?



2 Responses to Question of the Week: What advice would you give Admiral David Dixon Porter?

  1. That he stop being a lying, backstabbing SOB and just do his job, which he does well enough.

  2. Do NOT waste all of your 13-inch mortar shells at Fort Gaines! They will be needed May 1862 to subdue rebels occupying the 300-foot bluff at Vicksburg.

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