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

[Margaret D. Blough]

Wait till you get to the part about the what, effectively, was the Second Battle of Gettysburg over the material left on the battlefield with locals and visitors on one side and the Provost Marshal's men on the other.

Regards,

Margaret

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From: WolfDuke33 at aol.com 

> 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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