Talk:Charles Morgan (businessman)/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 22:51, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:51, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Following on from the notes in the first GA review, the points have been addressed except for the one about running the Union blockade with the Frances. I don't know what the law would have been in Union territory, but I'm guessing if a Union citizen were known to be helping the Confederacy they would be in legal trouble. Were Morgan's actions with the Frances known in the north? Or was this done surreptitiously? If the sources don't say, of course, there's nothing to be done.

From another read-through:

• The "Death and legacy" section reads oddly: we get a sentence about his death, then one about the railroad, then one about his interment, then one about the company. It would make more sense to have an initial paragraph about his death and interment, and then go on to the subsequent events.
• At the end of that section, the legacy sentences are a bit clunky. How about something like "Morgan's name is preserved in Morgan City, which was renamed after him in February 1876, and in the Morgan School, a high school in Clinton, Connecticut, for which Morgan donated land and capital". Then I'd cut the earlier mention of the renaming of Brashear -- the article doesn't refer to Brashear or Morgan City after that point.

That's everything for this pass. Once these points are dealt with I'll check for source reliability and to verify what I can against the sources. Looks good. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:25, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Frances: I don't recall Baughman ever mentioning any Union awareness or concern about Morgan's business activities in the South. As I already noted in the article, however, the governor of Louisiana indicated concern about Morgan's loyalties. The point that Baughman makes is that despite Morgan's lifelong residence in CT and NY, Morgan demonstrated no loyalties and continued throughout the war to play both sides. This is not my synthesis: it's Baughman's synthesis. So I believe that this is the already the best characterization or rephrasing of a trusted source. I am not aware of any other source that discusses Morgan's Civil War activities.

"Legacy sentences are a bit clunky." I really appreciate your suggestions for this section. I have re-ordered the sentences with care to move the associated inline citations to correspond to the new ordering. Along with some copy editing, most of this section is tight after the revisions.

Brashear: I like your concept for rephrasing here, but I decided to add a reference to Brashear at the end. Best regards, Oldsanfelipe2 (talk) 15:26, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Mike Christie, I just wanted to check in. Are there any problems? Is there any way I can help? Oldsanfelipe2 (talk) 14:12, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, got distracted. Will try to look through this again tonight; if you don't hear from me please ping me again. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:26, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

The edits look good. The sources seem fine; I can't access Baughman (1968) but have no concerns about it. I checked a couple of the other sources and confirmed that they support the material cited. I would suggest breaking out the list of sources to a separate section, but that's not needed for GA. I'm going to go ahead and pass this; congratulations, and I'm sorry the whole process took so long. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:50, 14 January 2020 (UTC)