The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign by Joseph A. Altsheler (portable ebook reader txt) 📗

changed comma to period chapter 3 - Page 59, para 3, fixed mis-printed quotation mark chapter 4 - Page 73, para 6, fixed typo (“thy”) - Page 74, para 1, add missing end-quote chapter 5 - Page 95, para 3, add missing end-quote - Page 102, para 5, add missing comma chapter 6 - Page 118, para 3, fixed typo (“lenghening”) - Page 119, para 6, fixed typo (“untils”) - Page 120, para 3, fixed typo (“alrming”) chapter 7 - Page 139, para 4, add missing begin-quote chapter 9 - Page 184, para 2, add missing begin-quote chapter 10 - Page 197, para 7, fixed typo (“Your're”) chapter 15 - Page 299, para 2, fixed typo (“genuis”) chapter 16 - Page 331, para 2, fixed typo (changed “not” to “nor”) Limitations imposed by converting to plain ASCII: - Throughout the printed book, in any quasi-mathematical passages which use the variables “x” and “y”, those variable names are presented in italics. Italics are not available in plain ASCII.

I did not modify:

- The printed book sometimes uses the spelling “despatch”, other times “dispatch”. Also, both “intrenchments” and “entrenchments”. - Chapter 12, page 245, “grewsome” - There are a number of instances where the use of the comma in the printed book seems to me inappropriate, mainly in terms of commas inserted where I would not insert them, and also sometimes commas lacking where I would provide them. However, I have adhered to the punctuation as printed (except for obvious printing errors, which are noted above). For example: The hills rolled far away southward, and under the horizon's rim. The three bade farewell to the young operator, then to almost all of Hubbard and proceeded in a trot for the pass. One day Major Hertford sent Dick, Warner, and Sergeant Whitley, ahead to scout. The two young aides carried away by success and the fire of battle, waved their swords continually and rushed at the enemy's lines. Duck River, which Buell was compelled to cross, was swollen like all the other streams of the region, by the great rains and was forty feet deep. - The author sometimes uses a technique whereby a paragraph introducing a quotation ends with a colon, with the quotation following as the next paragraph.

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