After playing around I found an odd "solution" (Note that I placed
solution in question marks).

I am unable to mount any encrypted device when I encrypt the entire
drive such as /dev/sdc rather than /dev/sdc1.

If I format the device as one filesystem and then use luksformat to
format the resulting /dev/sdx1 I now have a luks encrypted drive that
will automatically mount using gnome-mount.  I figured something had to
be wrong with the partition type since I kept seeing unknown partition
type in my logs when I tried to mount the drive.

I formatted the drive as vfat, then created a vfat luks container and
moved a file to it.  If I plug the drive into my wifes windows box it
sees the drive as unreadable and if I use freeotfe I can mount it and it
sees it as a proper luks encrypted volume...

So is this a normal issue and I never should have been able to encrypt a
volume using /dev/sdc and should only use /dev/sdc1?  Does this
"solution" seem weird to anyone else?!

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Feisty does not mount encrypted partition
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