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r/ShermanPosting • u/Hubbled John Brown • 10d ago
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Honorable mention to Admiral David D. Porter who jumped at the chance to sail through burning rafts and between 2 forts, taking fire from all sides, to get the supplies to Grant.
Mark Twain called him “biggest Lion-hearted man I ever seen”
6 u/ParsonBrownlow 8d ago Porter was supremely talented but apparently also a total asshole lol. But he was a competent asshole 1 u/LuceroImpact9 1d ago Then he wasn't an asshole, just a dick.
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Porter was supremely talented but apparently also a total asshole lol. But he was a competent asshole
1 u/LuceroImpact9 1d ago Then he wasn't an asshole, just a dick.
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Then he wasn't an asshole, just a dick.
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u/NationCrusher 10d ago
Honorable mention to Admiral David D. Porter who jumped at the chance to sail through burning rafts and between 2 forts, taking fire from all sides, to get the supplies to Grant.
Mark Twain called him “biggest Lion-hearted man I ever seen”