Manuscript Mailed

This morning I mailed the manuscript to Bob Brugger at the Johns Hopkins University Press. Back in September 2004, on a rainy, windy day soon after Hurricane Ivan, beneath the cover of a tent at the Baltimore Book Festival, Bob suggested I write a companion volume on Southern soldiers. Two years and four months later, it is completed. Seems like only yesterday that he suggested the idea.

Last night I scanned through the entries below, and concluded that a visual display of this journey would be helpful. I started work on a timeline subdivided by overlapping bars representing various stages of work on the manuscript (locating photographs, research and writing, feedback, editing). I’ll add it to the Web site soon.