Talk:William Conway

Who gave the order?

Different sources disagree on who gave Conway the order to strike the colours. Candidates and sources are listed below.

• Lieutenant Frederick B. Kinshaw (CSA) – officer serving w/ Chase and his CSA volunteers

• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, 1888. p. 712.

• Commodore Ebenezer Farrand (USA/CSA) – XO of the Yard, switched loyalties

• Civil War Sea Battles: Seafights and Shipwrecks in the War between the States, 1995. p. 13.

• Lieutenant Francis Renshaw (USA)

• Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, p. 21.
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• Commodore James Armstrong (WP) (USA)

• "Union flag surrendered here should be on display", Pensacola News Journal, October 20, 2007.