Proofreading / editing mistake

[captainrlm]

I'm flipping through "Brady's Civil War: Revised Edition" by Webb Garrison today and on page 188 happened upon a bit of a mistake.

In the section about hospitals, it mentions "Just over 250 million Confederates perished in the conflict...."

No wonder McClellan felt outnumbered :laugh2:

 

[Bonny Blue Flag]

Too funny, Captain!

--BBF

 

[K Hale]

250,000,000?? Magruder must've had those guys on a gigantic high-speed treadmill!

 

[gary]

Those ****ed Yankee genocidal techniques must have been copied by all dictators of the Twentieth Century. It's a miracle that anyone is alive in the South today.

 

[bankerpapaw]

Lt. Gary

Hear, Hear!!!

 

[samgrant]

How do I get a job as a Proofreader?

 

[Copper 83rd PA INF]

Maybe the 250 million was referring to all the Southern mosquitos who were killed during the war...?

Hey...they had bayonets too!

 

[TerryB]

How do I get a job as a Proofreader?

First ya need to be able ta spell prufreeder. Then ya got ta know some basic mayeth.

 

[K Hale]

Maybe the 250 million was referring to all the Southern mosquitos who were killed during the war...?

During the war? That would be per day.

<-----Texan, glad skeeter season is over.

 

[Mark Wadsworth]

Sounds like something i may have proofed

 

[coltshooter1]

That must be information provided by Allen Pinkerton and the Pinkerton Agency.

 

[captainrlm]

I just found another glaring error. In an 1844 book about the history of the United States exists a chapter about the "western states."

One of the states discussed is Kentucky, but this book claims Kentucky is bordered on the west by Mississippi. :hmmm:

I guess they may have started to spell Missouri and got distracted, but that's a pretty big error. :shrug:

 

[Nathanb1]

During the war? That would be per day.

<-----Texan, glad skeeter season is over.

I believe we may finally have gotten cold enough to put a tiny dent in the bug population. I hear some polar bears were spotted near Conroe.