[bksvol-discuss] one of my scans ready to proofread... "The Irish general : Thomas Francis Meagher"
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- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:30:16 -0700
This book was submitted to Bookshare on February 19, and checked out and let
expire without notice as to why.
Hopefully just not their cup of tea
It has not been checked out again, so this is just an FYI notice.
Thanks.
Rik J
ISBN #: 978-0-8061-4185-5
TITLE: The Irish general : Thomas Francis Meagher
AUTHOR: Paul R. Wylie
YEAR OF COPYRIGHT: Copyright © 2007 by the University of Oklahoma Press
PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press
GENRE: nonfiction, Biography, History,
LONG DESCRIPTION:
Irish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor--Thomas Francis Meagher
played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed as a
hero by some, condemned as a drunkard by others. Paul R. Wylie now offers a
definitive biography of this nineteenth-century figure who has long remained an
enigma. The Irish General first recalls Meagher's life from his boyhood and
leadership of Young Ireland in the revolution of 1848, to his exile in Tasmania
and escape to New York, where he found fame as an orator and as editor of the
Irish News. He served in the Civil War--viewing the Union Army as training for
a future Irish revolutionary force--and rose to the rank of brigadier general
leading the famous Irish Brigade. Wylie traces Meagher's military career in
detail through the Seven Days battles, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and
Chancellorsville. Wylie then recounts Meagher's final years as acting governor
of Montana Territory, sorting historical truth from false claims made against
him regarding the militia he formed to combat attacking American Indians, and
plumbing the mystery surrounding his death. Even as Meagher is lauded in most
Irish histories, his statue in front of Montana's capitol is viewed by some
with contempt. The Irish General brings this multi-talented but seriously
flawed individual to life, offering a balanced picture of the man and a
captivating reading experience.
volunteer comments:
This book was scanned using Kurzweil K-1000 latest version 14.01. I have
retained the .kes file with images as well as the printed copy. So if there is
an issue, I can refer to it. Where page numbers were at the bottom, I have
moved them to the top of each page, with a blank line above and below it. All
text is at 12 point regular Arial font. Except that I have modified the
headings according to Bookshare standards - 20 point bold for the title, 16
point bold for the headings. There are chapter headings as well as a table of
contents, acknowledgements, introdution, notes, bibliography, and index. On
pages with photo or image captions I have put this at the beginning: [image
caption: with a closed bracket ] at the end of the caption. Where the page is
blank, I have also made this: [page is blank.] and put a page number at the
top of the page, when needed.
While the scan of this book produced very few errors, I used Ranked Spelling
and worked extensively to make improvements in many instances. There are many,
many proper names and places. And there are a many words that are using
alternate spelling from quoted text reflecting a way of writing and speaking in
the earlier times. Also in many instances there are words with a [] to include
a letter that was left out of the author's source material. For example, the
word any might look like [a]ny. There were quite a lot of situation where the
letter and spacing on the page would cause words to be together, or between
things, so as much as I could find, I made those corrections using my K-1000
program to discover and edit them. Of course even though I spent hours on this
and the final Ranked Spelling was 99.4 %, there may still of course be some of
these situations remaining. I am available for any question, if I can be of
further assistance, please do contact me at this email address: d28rik @
msn.com. I am also on the bksvol discussion email list. Good luck! I hope
you may like the book as much as I did when scanning and reading it. This title
is a part of our local history organization, and I purchased this directly from
the author who resides here. I see that we have other titles from him already
in the Bookshare collection. Thanks. Rik
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