Talk:Siege of Bridgeport

Not a siege

Dyer (1908), the National Park Service list based on Dyer and Long The Civil War Day by Day (1971) p. 202 describe the April 23, 1862 action at Bridgeport as a skirmish. The 2009 newspaper article which describes the action and the modern re-enactment called the "Siege of Bridgeport" calls the April 23 engagement a fierce, hour-long battle. That is not a siege. Also, as the citations to Long that I put in the article show there were other skirmishes in April 1862, August 1862 and July 1863. The occupation of Bridgeport by the Union forces, which was not until July 29, 1862 was obviously important and provided a base for the relief of Chattanooga after the Confederates besieged Union troops in that nearby city after the Battle of Chickamauga. The information in Dyer and Long and the NPS list showing skirmishes in April 1862 and the partially incorrect or at least vague modern newspaper article do not show there was a siege of Bridgeport in April 1862 and they clearly do not show that the Union Army occupied the town (even if other sources might be found that shows they briefly entered it, if in fact they did). The April 23 engagement alone noted in the original version of this article obviously was not a siege, nor were the three skirmishes in April 1862 together a siege. Donner60 (talk) 07:56, 28 July 2015 (UTC)