GDG- Question about A Strange and Blighted Land by Gregory A Coco

[John Imhof]

Here's my count:

First, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Cavalry...that's 
eight. If you count signal and artillery it would be 10.

John
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Subject: GDG- Question about A Strange and Blighted Land by Gregory A Coco


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> I was almost tingling with excitement upon the arrival of this  book, 
> finally
> a Book that wasn't dealing with the movements of every regiment on  the
> battlefield. A book that was going to give me the Town of  Gettysburg's 
> point of
> view about  the battle. Immediately I see  stats and lots of neat circa 
> 1863
> stuff. Then WHAM Holy Hot Cakes Bat Man   pg 6, 3rd paragraph and I quote 
> "By the
> Fifth of July the Rebels were sullenly  retreating toward the Potomac 
> River
> and safety; and General Meade's eight corp's  soon took up pursuit, " 
> Riddle me
> this Bat Man, unless I am totally lost wasn't  there 7 corp representing 
> the
> Army of the Potomac?
>   I do realize that people make mistakes and I have read a ton  of 
> spelling
> and grammatical errors, Hell Larry Taggs Book is full of them. I  Have no 
> more
> room to talk about grammatical  or spelling errors then the  next guy 
> however
> I just hope that this is a very large over site especially  since he was 
> so
> thankful to Cindy Small for all her proofreading and hard work.
>   I suppose what I'm curious too is has anyone else read this  book and Is
> this the only snafu I will encounter. The Book truly looks like a  lot of 
> hard
> work and time went into its culmination, just odd to me that 6 pages  into 
> it
> a simple trivial fact like this was mistakenly omitted. If I  for some 
> reason
> am misunderstanding this please Kick me hard. I am not  trying to offend 
> or
> criticize I just want others opinions that have read the  book and hope 
> that it
> clarifies what I found , so I can either continue  reading without 
> hesitation
> or if I need to stop now. Thank you for your  time.
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