Touche!I wouldn't say he lived....
He was a zombie, walking around with his arms out in front of him, droning out "R - E - T - R - E - A - T" over and over.
Touche!I wouldn't say he lived....
He was a zombie, walking around with his arms out in front of him, droning out "R - E - T - R - E - A - T" over and over.
Ambrose's reputation has pretty well been trashed over the years although I thoroughly enjoyed Undaunted Courage.Stephen Ambrose once made a comment about Thomas Jefferson sitting in the Oval Office.
The actual quote was about Meriwether Lewis returning from the great expedition and meeting with Jefferson: "Unfortunately, we have no record of their first meeting. Neither Lewis nor Jefferson ever wrote about it. We do know they got down on their hands and knees with Clark's map in the Oval Office. Oh, what a moment that must have been for Jefferson, bittersweet." (http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/archive/ambrose.html)
It did not. The casualty rate was quite similar I think.
Regarding errors, in Michael Jones' Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed I read, for example, about the lack of ammunition for RPGs, which was hilarious. I think it was a confused translator's mistake, though. I want to believe so. ;]
I have a habit of reading the introductory of a book and was looking forward to reading one about Robert E. Lee I had purchased at a thrift store. In the intro, the author stated that Lee took command of the Confederate Army in Virginia after Joseph Johnston had been killed at Seven Pines. With a sigh of disappointment I closed the book and didn't bother to continue to chapter one.
Lol who the heck is that?That reminds me of my reaction on seeing THIS:
Lol who the heck is that?
Perhaps it is one of his other cousins, Privacy Fence Jackson.... or Chainlink Fence Jackson....I believe its his little known cousin Peagravel Jackson.
Ahhhhhh!That reminds me of my reaction on seeing THIS:
Lol who the heck is that?
"Grant was finally hailed as a great hero, and when Lincoln called him East to face Lee he became the fifth commanding general of the Army of the Potomac."
-Winston Groom, Shiloh, 1862
She may have mis-remembered people watching us land on the moon a few years later. All they could watch at home or in store windows on Nov 22, 1963, would be the news coverage of the aftermath. That would depend on how soon the networks got there--mostly after dark.My favorite error is in a book that unfortunately I don't own on the history of knitting written by a Canadian professor of textile studies at at US university. At one point, she mentions that in November, 1963, people crowded around television sets in appliance and furniture store windows to watch President Kennedy be assassinated. This is when I realized that books are put out now without any editors involved.
I wouldn't say he lived....
He was a zombie, walking around with his arms out in front of him, droning out "R - E - T - R - E - A - T" over and over.
Thank you! Now I will *never* be able to get the mental image of a zombie Joe Johnston out of my head....
Perhaps it is one of his other cousins, Privacy Fence Jackson.... or Chainlink Fence Jackson....
I felt so strongly that this error should be rectified that I wrote and published a book on the subject of the Haul of the locomotives and the man who did the job, my avatar, Capt. Thomas R. Sharp. Please check out my Locomotives Up the Turnpike, available from me or Amazon.Farnwell, 1992, Stonewall said Jackson never hauled B&O Railroad locomotives down the highway to the South. Robertson, 1997, Stonewall Jackson: the Man, the Soldier, the Legend said the haul was a myth and never happened. Tucker, 2003, Brigadier General James D. Imboden says that everything that we know about the haul came from Imboden's articles in Battles & Leaders and that he was a liar.
All three men are totally wrong. I have over 300 period documents proving the haul took place, just like so many other authors said it did. These proofs are from the B&O RR annual reports, the ORs, several diaries, many US and CS newspaper articles and hundreds of documents in the National Archives.