Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Endnote Edits

One of the comments in the Reader’s Report took issue with the length of the endnotes, and recommended that they be edited with focus on material specifically related to the profiled soldiers. To address this concern, I proposed to eliminate the endnotes that include biographical information about general officers, and edit the remaining notes accordingly.

I’ve spent the last ten mornings working on this. I deleted and/or consolidated 98 endnotes (about sixteen percent of the total) and reduced the page count from thirty-one to seventeen (about a forty-five percent reduction). The dramatic reduction in page count resulted from the deletion of the endnotes of the generals and colonels, which were the longest entries.

The deletion of the general officer endnotes creates an inconsistency with the Union volume, and I’ll add a sentence to the “About this volume” section to address this.

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