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Congratulations from the Military History Project


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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid lightsteelblue;" | On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves for Hog Farm is ''the'' name in the English Wikipedia's coverage of the American Civil War, with dozens on dozens of articles of quality, and has devoted years of his time and energy to the coordination and maintenance of MILHIST. <span style="color:#800082">Hawkeye7</span> <span style="font-size:80%">(discuss)</span> ↗ 19:20, 2 October 2023 (UTC). {{user0|Harrias}} via MilHistBot (talk) 00:30, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
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: Congrats, HF! 👍🏻 Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me ↗) 01:50, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

: Congratulations! <span style="color:#800082">Hawkeye7</span> <span style="font-size:80%">(discuss)</span> ↗ 02:19, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
:: This is quite the honor - it's humbling to think that I'd be considered for this. Hog Farm <sub> ''Talk''</sub> 02:24, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
::: Hello, Hog Farm. Just reaching out as you and I and User:Buidhe seem to be the only editors who have been granted theWikiChevrons with Oak Leaves so far this decade. It's a much more exclusive club these days, and I'm honored to share it with you. I've been interested in the US Civil War since I bought a deleted copy of "Terrible Swift Sword" around 1984. Thanks for your contributions. Now I have to go back to the 162nd Rifle Division ↗.

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!


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Your nomination of USS Sumter (1862) ↗ is under review



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Thank you today for CSS General Earl Van Dorn ↗, introduced as a "type of American Civil War ship" ... The cottonclads were a Confederate invention out of desparation - while the Union was churning out City-class ironclads in late 1861 and early 1862, the almost pre-industrial Confederacy had difficulty keeping up. Instead, the Confederates decided to harken back to the ancient tactic of naval rams - they modified civilian river steamers for ramming, and protected the most important machinery with compressed cotton, which the blockaded South had out the wazoo. The idea worked once, at the Battle of Plum Point Bend but failed spectacularly at the First Battle of Memphis where Van Dorn was the only one of eight cottonclads to escape destruction or capture. Taken up the Yazoo River, General Earl Van Dorn was burned under orders of a panicked Confederate officer later in the year. Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of CSS Livingston ↗ is under review



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January Military History Writing Contest



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USS Sumter (1862)



Looks like contest entry class was C - Revision as of 00:59, 25 January 2026 and first February talk page revision edit. Anything I missed in the review here? Good work as always. Donner60 (talk) 06:10, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
: I wasn't sure if the overall assessment or the MILHIST project rating was the one to go with. Thank you for your detailed attention to the contest! Hog Farm <sub> ''Talk''</sub> 12:54, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

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Thank you today for USS Romeo ↗, about another FAC "for a tinclad warship, to follow USS Marmora (1862) from 2023. Marmora was possibly the best-documented of the tinclads so this article is correspondingly a bit shorter."! - Thank you also for more quality content! - my story today is about Friedrich Cerha ↗'s centenary -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:36, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Today something new: a 100th birthday of someone alive, György Kurtág ↗! In 2004 I was there when he and his wife played for the Rheingau Musik Festival ↗ where he was the featured composer. They played as the 2019 DYK said, on an upright piano, - listen, the last piece was the same. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:54, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Today's main page ↗ features four biographies I helped to bring there, two women and two men, three opera singers (one pictured) and an actor, - a record for me, I believe ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:54, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Again: thank you today for Fort Southerland ↗, introduced (in 2022) as "a minor Confederate fortification in southwestern Arkansas"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:56, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Mount Airy, New York ↗



Is this stub the sort that you would propose for deleting? I might work on it, or redirect it, but I don't want to waste my time if you are going to prod it or revert my redirect. Bearian (talk) 07:04, 20 February 2026 (UTC)
: {{ping|Bearian}} - I expect that this one would be salvageable. See this ↗ (page 1 and page2 ↗), or this ↗. Those are both fairly local sources, but discuss this more thoroughly than you would expect for a non-municipal neighborhood. The place seems to have had a reputation as one of the more liberal neighborhoods in the area. Hog Farm <sub> ''Talk''</sub> 03:39, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
::Got it. Will work on it soon. Bearian (talk) 03:40, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

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Thank you today for Duckport Canal ↗, introduced (in 2022) as the "little cousin of Grant's Canal. A single boat made it through, but this one wasn't really successful either."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:48, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Of the four topics I helped to bring to the main page ↗, I'm most proud of a woman's work ↗, so made it my story. As it happens, last year's story OTD was about the woman. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:24, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

on Bach's birthday, a story about my joy --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:48, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of Battle of Goodrich's Landing ↗


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Welcome to the drive!


Welcome, welcome, welcome Hog Farm! I'm glad that you are joining the March 2026 drive ↗! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.
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March 2026 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award



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Old Sources at USS Missouri (1841) ↗



Hey, was considering doing a source review for this one, but am a bit worried looking at the sourcing. I see you did an SR at MILHIST here, but of course those standards are quite different. I mean how does the nominator justify nine references to a 1912 source, that is in fact written by the institution which created the ship? Many of these refs cover huge swaths of text too. I am just not familiar with naval proceedings and such so wondering your thoughts. '''<span style="font-family:Lucida;"><span style="color:darkred">Aza24</span><span style="color:#848484"> (talk)</span></span>''' 17:18, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
: Reply to be posted at the FAC ... Hog Farm <sub> ''Talk''</sub> 20:48, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

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Hello, I got sucked into improving a planter bio and I know you're insanely busy but if you have any time or inclination, would you mind taking a look at Draft:Routh family#John Routh ↗ please? The source seemed to be a little on the side of Lost Causery and I'm not sure if I'm carrying forward archaic language or if there are any key pieces I am missing. Would you let me know if anything egregious catches your eye? TY! jengod (talk) 05:56, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
:{{ping|Jengod}} - What I have for this in my sources is from Ed Bearss ↗, ''The Campaign for Vicksburg: Grant Strikes a Fatal Blow'' (Morningside, 1991) p. 523 - {{xt|Most of the boys in blue were shocked to see the wholesale destruction inflicted on the Bowie, Gordon, and John Routh plantations by Tuttle's men, who had passed this way several days before.}} The "several days before" is relative to an unclear date in early May, and Tuttle commanded a division in Sherman's corps. The general gist of the plantation burning as described in your draft is plausible and consistent with what happened all along the route of Grant's march down the Louisiana shoreline. I would substitute the reference to the Siege of Vicksburg ↗ in your draft to something about the Vicksburg campaign ↗ instead, as the march past Lake St. Joseph occurred weeks before the siege itself (which was only one stage of the campaign) started. Hog Farm <sub> ''Talk''</sub> 01:53, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
::Rad! I appreciate you very much and will expand/update. TY as always. jengod (talk) 01:55, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

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