NedBaldwin
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- Joined
- Feb 19, 2011
- Location
- California
Which makes Varneys first book a natural fit here, since it’s flaw is the documentation. Like the way he can say that the “50th Illinois was not part of Rosecrans's command; it was in Bolivar with Hurlbut” without providing any citation to any documentation when even amateurs here at CWT know that the 50th IL was part of Rosecrans command and that there is lots of documentation to back up that he is wrong.…
For all it’s positive aspects CWT is not a serious scholarship site if only because so few statements by posters are documented …
Or “On August 25, Halleck had issued orders for Hurlbut, commanding elements of Grant's Army of the Mississippi, to cover the right flank of the army of the Cumberland.” With a footnote to a page in the ORs that isn’t from August 25 and has nothing to do with Hurlbut and a search of the rest of the ORs turns up no order on August 25. He basis a lot of conclusions on an invented order.
the phenomenon of footnotes pointing to OR pages that have nothing to with what is footnoted happens over and over and over
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