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English: Admiral [David Dixon] Porter's Second Dummy Frightening the Rebels at Vicksburg. This shows a wooden dummy "ironclad" made from an old coal barge.

LC-USZ62-138379: Admiral Porter’s Second Dummy Frightening the Rebels at Vicksburg. Note the dummy ship that reads, “Deluded People Gave in” and the Pirate Flag, 1863. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (4/23/2015).

The Black Terror, depicts the so called Black Terror, the second of two sham gunboats.

"Deluded people gave in", Porter's Smoke Pot Ironclad sent down the Mississippi in the direction of the Indianola wreck. It reportedly cost $8.63, designed to reveal the locations of Southern artillery emplacements (See Harper's Weekly, April 11, 1863).

See Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads: The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and ... By Myron J. Smith, Jr.page 210 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_NvCDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=Porter%27s+Smoke+Pot+Ironclad&source=bl&ots=efh1cQ7ABi&sig=ACfU3U3yVoUtI4hEgF7b5u1ISBH_rYBEtw&hl
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Theodore Russel Davis  (1840–1894)  wikidata:Q7781961
 
Theodore Russel Davis
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Theodore Russell Davis
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Date of birth/death 1840 Edit this at Wikidata 10 November 1894 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Boston Edit this at Wikidata Asbury Park Edit this at Wikidata
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