Appendix: Transcription notes:
This etext was transcribed from a volume printed in April, 1964
(Twenty-eighth Printing)
The following modifications were applied while transcribing the
printed book to e-text:
chapter 1:
- Fixed typo ("hestitated"), page 22, para 2
- Fixed typo (changed "this father" to "his father"), page 23,
first line of para 5
chapter 2:
- Changed "t" to upper-case in sentence "to bed!" on page 40, para 3
chapter 3:
- Removed an extraneous quotation mark on page 62, at the end of para 4
- Fixed typo ("extaordinary"), page 63, para 2
- Fixed typo ("fews"), page 65, para 5
chapter 4:
- Fixed typo ("feeliing"), page 81, para 6
chapter 6:
- Added a missing comma on page 111, third sentence
- Fixed typo ("tomorow"), page 119, para 7
chapter 9:
- Fixed typo ("tomorow"), page 187, para 3
chapter 10:
- Page 197, second para: replaced a comma with a period preceding "Yet"
(However, It is unclear whether the author intended a period, or
whether instead the "yet" should be lower case - either would serve
equally well.)
- Fixed typo (changed "achievment" to "achievement"), page 208, para 8
chapter 11:
- Fixed typo ("thy're") on page 234, para 4
chapter 12:
- Page 241, para 1: changed "four o'clock this morning" to "four
o'clock this afternoon" - the content of this page and the following
pages clearly indicates that the march started in mid-day,
not before dawn
chapter 13:
- Fixed typo ("persausive") on page 282, para 4
- Fixed typo ("aand") on page 284, para 4
chapter 14:
- Fixed typo (changed "hid" to "hide"), page 289, para 1
- Fixed typo ("batallions"), page 292, para 1
- Fixed typo ("aand"), page 293, para 5
- Added missing close-quotation-marks to para 7 on page 295
- Added missing close-quotation-marks to para 8 on page 296
- Fixed typo ("paseed"), page 299, para 1
chapter 16:
- Removed a duplicate "to" on page 330, para 3
Limitations imposed by converting to plain ASCII:
- The printed book presented the names of newspapers and ships
in italics, but italics are not available in plain ASCII
Chapter 1, page 9: Pendleton News, News, Louisville Journal, News
page 10: News
Chapter 3, page 71: Mercury, Star of the West
Chapter 4, everywhere: Star of the West
Chapter 5, page 96: Mercury, Star of the West
Chapter 6 and 7: Baltic
Chapter 12: Star of the West
- The word "marquee" in chapter 15 was presented in the printed
book with an accented "e"
I did not modify:
- The following sentence in chapter 1 does not seem quite right,
but I am not sure how to change it, if I would change it:
George Kenton, having inherited much land in Kentucky, and two or
three plantations further south had added to his property by good
management.
- There are a number of instances where the use of the comma in the
printed book seems to me inappropriate, mainly in terms of commas
inserted where I would not insert them, and also sometimes commas
lacking where I would provide them. However, I have adhered to
the punctuation as printed (except for obvious printing errors,
which are noted above).
For example:
His abounding youth made him consider as weak and unworthy, an
emotion which a man would merely have reckoned as natural.
Forty or fifty thousand, men, women and children, were looking on,
but nothing more than a murmur ran through the great mass.
The sea itself, is against them.
Two heavier crashes showed that the cannon were also coming into
play, and one shell striking within the fort, exploded, wounding
a half dozen men.
The belt of forest into which he had ridden, ran along the crest
of a hill, where the soil evidently had been considered too thin
for profitable cultivation.
- Each section of verse is formatted to appear similar to its
presentation in the printed book. Consequently: some verse is
indented more than others, some is left-aligned, some is
staggered on the left margin, some is center-aligned.
- The author sometimes uses a technique whereby a paragraph introducing
a quotation ends with a colon, with the quotation following as the
next paragraph.