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Too small to mention? There's a school named after David Porter in Little Neck, New York. --Elijah (talk) 22:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Needs to focus on David Dixon Porter

This article has too much information about his father, uncle and everyone else. Perhaps there needs to be an article about the Porter family in US military and naval history, but it shouldn't all go in here. Extensive material about his grandfather and Jorge Farragut should go in the latter's article, or in an article about his father, also the David G. Farragut article, not here.Parkwells (talk) 22:01, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Blame for Red River fiasco

Nathaniel P. Banks, who was in charge of army forces in Louisiana, brought pressure on the Lincoln administration to mount a campaign across Louisiana and into Texas along the line of the Red River.

Check the Wiki article on Banks. He had no faith in the Red River campaign, which had been Henry Halleck's idea. When it failed, Halleck tried to deflect blame by suggesting that Banks had advocated it. Valetude (talk) 05:32, 5 June 2015 (UTC)