Talk:CSS General Polk/GA1
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Nominator: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 00:57, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs) 08:29, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
I will take a look at this shortly. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 08:29, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Prelim[edit]
- Ironclad is a duplicated link
- Resolved
- Image correctly licensed - are there any directly of Polk?
- Not that I've seen. File:USS Cayuga at Forts Jackson and St. Philip.jpg was in the article before I rewrote it, but that can't be General Polk because Polk wasn't at the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, which that image portrays.
- Article is stable
- Earwig reports copyvio unlikely
Lede and infobox[edit]
- Suggest adding in the lede that she was a Sidewheel steamer
- Done
- Suggest "launched" instead of "Built" in 1852, as being launched in the year does not guarantee she was also built then
- Done
- "Commissioned into military service on October 22, and was sent to" needs a rejig
- Fixed
- Give the year for October 22
- Done
- Give the exact date for Lucas Bend
- Done
- "June 26, 1862" repeated year
- Removed
- While looking for images of General Polk I saw mention that she was a timberclad?
- This book makes the claim (also that she was armed with Parrott rifles) but neither of these claims are found in the more specialized sources so I am doubtful.
Service history[edit]
- Do we know when the civilian collisions occurred, or have further detail about them? Would be nice to expand the service prior to the ACW
- There might be something in Way's Packet Directory. I've left a note at WT:SHIPS to see if anyone has a copy; if not I will try to get out to Wilson's Creek National Battlefield on a weekend where they supposedly have a copy in the library. If not, I can try to dredge through old newspaper through the Wikipedia library
- "slowed by the weather" what kind of weather?
- Done
- Move the link for Ship launching to the first launch rather than second
- Done
- "On November 10, General Polk, along with two other Confederate gunboats" Is this date correct? Doesn't work chronologically
- Should be November 30. Fixed.
- "two other Confederate gunboats" suggests General Polk was also termed a gunboat, but this isn't mentioned
- I've introduced Polk as a gunboat earlier in the article
- Surely there's more information on Lucas Bend? What did Polk do in the battle, what was the result? Was this related to the earlier following of ships to Fort Holt?
- I've expanded a little on what was going on here; this wasn't much of a battle at all. The Confederates bumped into the ironclads while on a scouting mission, there was a brief exchange of gunfire, and the Confederates withdrew.
- Our article on Lucas Bend gives a completely different composition of the CS forces (and names Polk a cottonclad?)
- Apparently Smith's book on the Union timberclads gives a different Confederate composition; I've scratched the list of Confederate ships entirely. Neither DANFS, Chatelain, nor Canney refer to General Polk as a cottonclad; I suspect the Lucas Bend article is in error.
- "The damage caused the ship to have to be withdrawn from the fighting" Is this the action mentioned in the this source which has General Polk being beached?
- Yes, this is the same action. I've added a sentence from Jones
- "New Orleans was threatened" by what?
- clarified
- Why was the April 12 attack abortive? What happened?
- I've expanded some on this matter
- "two Union ships moved up the Yazoo River" Assume these were warships. Do we know anything more?
- I've added the names and types of these two.
- Where was General Polk burned exactly?
- Liverpool Landing, clarified
Reference[edit]
- References look good. AGF for print sources.
@Hog Farm: Hi, that's all I have for now. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 14:35, 2 June 2024 (UTC)