The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation's Crisis

by Joseph A. Altsheler

Appendix: Transcription notes:

This ebook was transcribed from a volume of the 16th printing

Despite the fact that this is a fictional work, I myself find it inappropriate that our fictional hero, Dick Mason, is credited with discovering the “lost” copy of Lee's General Order No. 191. In fact, Sergeant Bloss and Corporal Mitchell, of the 27th Indiana Infantry, found the envelope containing the order, along with the three cigars, in a field of clover on the morning of 09/13/1862.

The following modifications were applied while transcribing the printed book to ebook:

Chapter 2
Page 31, para 4, add missing close-quotes
Page 51, para 3, add missing comma
Page 51, para 6, fix typo (“Pennigton”)
Page 52, para 7, add missing open-quotes
Chapter 3
Page 68, para 4, changed “it” to “its”
Chapter 4
Page 83, para 3, added a missing comma (In these books, I am
often tempted to add/move/remove commas, but I generally avoid
doing so. In this case, an additional comma was sorely needed.)
Chapter 5
Page 105, para 3, add missing open-quotes
Page 107, para 2, add missing open-quotes
Page 118, para 5, changed “he know not” to “he knew not”
Chapter 6
Page 142, para 11, add missing open-quotes
Chapter 7
Page 157, para 2, add missing open-quotes
Chapter 9
Page 191, para 6, add missing comma
Page 196, para 2 and 3, fix closing quotation marks
Page 197, para 1, add missing close-quote
Chapter 10
Page 210, para 1, fix typo (“Pennigton”)
Chapter 13
Page 276, para 1, change “a” to “as”
Page 281, para 2, add missing close-quotes
Page 283, para 8, change “in” to “is”
Page 288, para 4, fix typo (“seeemd”)
Page 293, para 4, add missing close-quotes
Page 297, para 2, closing double-quote should be single-quote
Limitations imposed by converting to plain ASCII:
- The word “marquee” in chapter 3 was presented in the printed
book with an accented “e”

I did not change:

- Inconsistent spelling/presentation in the printed book:
“rearguard” and “rear guard”, “guerrilla” and “guerilla”,
“round-about” and “roundabout”, “to-morrow” and “tomorrow”
- “bowlder” in chapter 10

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