Pickett or Pettigrew? An Historical Essay

Chapter 6: Transcriber’s Notes

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The essay mounts a defense of a Confederate brigade commander and his troops by combining a preface and dedication with a biographical portrait, battlefield narrative, and documentary analysis. The author recounts the commander’s career, describes his unit’s movements and fighting, and compares casualty figures and official reports to challenge widely held accusations about their conduct in a major assault. Drawing on firsthand recollections, statistics, and published records, the pamphlet argues that misrepresentation and exigent battlefield losses, rather than dereliction, explain the brigade’s behavior and reputation.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

Inconsistent possessive forms of Proper names have been made consistent, using a government Roster of Commanders to resolve ambiguities. In particular, General J. D. Daniel’s surname often was misprinted as “Daniels” or “Daniels’”.

In the original book, omitted names were indicated by a series of periods. In this eBook, four dashes (or a long em-dash) are used.

Page 51: “Christie” was misprinted as “Chirstie”; corrected here.