Talk:Andrew Talcott

message: This article is one of the better referenced of many I have worked with in Wikipedia. However, while I did a bit on it, I believe that it needs a lot more work to be presented in a prose format to meet Wikipedia style guidelines. Vaoverland 20:44, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: Turned into prose but info doesn't make sense in some areas (especially the Mexico - New York connection) - super refs though. See also: http://fortwiki.com/Andrew_Talcott for sequencing summary tho without refs. Manytexts (talk) 03:02, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turned into prose 

message: When Lee was fleeing towards Appomatox, the job of burning a vital bridge was given to "Colonel Talcott" (according to Freeman's biography of Lee). It was burnt too late, essentially dooming the army to defeat (the absolute final nail in the coffin).
If this is the same Colonel Talcott (I feel it is), this should surely be on this page. I just wanted to check if there was another before adding it.
SoxSexSax (talk) 14:42, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this the same Colonel Talcott who failed to burn the bridge? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The lead paragraph does not jibe with the later statements about Talcott's career and is unreferenced. The key point is the statement that he "never served" in the Civil War. Although he may never have engaged in combat, the article later states that he was commissioned as a colonel in the Virginia militia and served as an engineer officer with the Confederate Army, directing the rebuilding of Fort Boykin. I have a reference that describes him as "Col. Andrew Talcott, CSA Engineer Dept." This is clearly military service. It's also necessary to clarify which President is included in "Coming back with the President to New York...", although it's presumably the president of the Mexican railroad he was working on. All I'm really planning to do is insert a statement about his selection of the site for Fort Huger, and maybe unsnarl the lead paragraph depending on consensus here. RobDuch (talk·contribs) 04:39, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I've found the source for much of the lead paragraph. It appears to be based on the now-defunct famousamericans.net. There is still no source for the "did not serve" statement. RobDuch (talk·contribs) 04:45, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

text: I noticed that as well and was planning to put  on it. If it's inaccurate, however, perhaps it would be best to just remove it. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 18:32, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead paragraph