Thursday, January 24, 2013

correction to footnote in Civil War correspondence; correction to footnote in 2 pieces of journalism

I've revised the first footnote of
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/duk.00363.html,
George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 2 October
1864, to correct the sentence "Almost the entire Fifty-First New York
Regiment was lost in killed (2), wounded (10), and captured or missing
(332)." The note now reads, "Almost the entire Fifty-First New York
Regiment was lost: killed (2), wounded (10), and captured or missing
(332)."

Also, a footnote about George Washington Whitman that appears in two
pieces of published journalism has been updated. In
http://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/tei/per.00205.html
("Return of a Brooklyn Veteran") and
http://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/tei/per.00212.html
("A Brooklyn Soldier, and a Noble One"), the note "George W. Whitman,
Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years, served in the New York
Fifty-first during the Civil War and was wounded at the First Battle
of Fredericksburg. He was taken prisoner at Poplar Grove, Virginia, on
September 30, 1864, and spent time in several Confederate prisons in
the days following his release before being transferred to the prison
at Danville, Virginia, on October 22, 1864. He was released in
February 1865. See Jerome Loving's introduction to the print edition
of the Civil War letters of George Washington Whitman" had been
revised to "George W. Whitman, Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten
years, served in the New York Fifty-first during the Civil War and was
wounded at the First Battle of Fredericksburg. He was taken prisoner
at Poplar Grove, Virginia, on September 30, 1864, and spent time in
several Confederate prisons in the days following his capture before
being transferred to the prison at Danville, Virginia, on October 22,
1864. He was released in February 1865. See Jerome Loving's
introduction to the print edition of the Civil War letters of George
Washington Whitman." (Brett made these changes.)

~Liz

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