Hey Kenny, I gave that book to Susan because I heard from her first, but if you
need something to proofread, write me off list and tell me what you’re
interested in, I might be able to find something for you. Contrary to what many
people might believe, there are still a heck of a lot of books that Bookshare
doesn’t have, and a very great many they are probably not likely to get anytime
soon, and we’ve quite a few of them lying about here. So send me a message and
I’ll see what I can do.
I can’t suss out your email address from your messages to the list, which is
why I’m sending this to the list instead of privately.
Evan
From: Kenny
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 10:22 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Historical Romance Needs a Proofreader
Hi Evan i'll be glad to proof read it for you.
Kenny Peyatt
On 5/16/2015 8:59 PM, Evan Reese wrote:
Thanks Susan, I’ll wait a bit to see if anyone else wants it. If I don’t hear
from anyone in a day or two, I’ll send it up for you.
Evan
From: Susan Lumpkin
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 8:40 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Historical Romance Needs a Proofreader
I’ll be glad to take it if you like, Evan and no one else has!
Susan
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 7:23 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Historical Romance Needs a Proofreader
Hello Folks,
I’ve scanned a historical romance set during the Civil War that I need a
proofreader for. Lissi doesn’t want to do it because it has a sad ending. So
anyone else is forewarned.
It’s called There Was a Time: A Civil War Romance and it’s by Kenneth Neff
Hammontree, ISBN 0-9761327-0-2.
Here’s the info from inside flaps and back cover for anyone who wants an idea
as to what it’s about:
[from inside flaps]
The Civil War was a time of great tragedy for the United States--and great
drama. Kenneth Hammontree, in this second printing of There Was a Time, focuses
on a small but poignant story from the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg.
Mary Virginia "Jennie" Wade was helping her mother make bread in her sister's
little brick house. Right in the midst of the fighting for Gettysburg, she was
struck down by a Confederate sharpshooter's bullet. Unknown to Jennie, her
childhood sweetheart, Corporal Jack Skelly, was at that very hour suffering
with wounds inflicted during the battle of Carters Woods, from which he would
soon die.
Author Hammontree shows us the thoughts and feelings of Jennie, Jack, and
their families on those fateful days of June and July 1863. We see the full
bloom of love between the ill-fated pair, their tentative plans for the future
amid the destruction and uncertainty of war, and the reactions of the people
around them.
Kenneth Hammontree captures precisely the combination of excitement and the
dread that overcame Gettysburg and its inhabitants, making us feel as if we
were actually there. And finally, he has given us a fictionalized version of
Jack's farewell letter to Jennie written in the hospital and lost during the
Battle of Gettysburg.
All told, There Was A Time is an educational and touching experience not to
be missed by any discerning reader.
[from the back cover]
Sister's death places a woman on the stage of history.
The story about the two star crossed lovers is told in the Civil War Romance
novel "There Was a Time" by Kenneth Neff Hammontree of Ashland, Ohio. The story
focuses on a small but poignant story from the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg in
1863. Jennie Wade was helping her mother make bread for the Union soldiers when
she was struck down by a sharpshooter's bullet.
Unknown to Jennie Wade, her childhood sweetheart, Corporal "Jack" Skelly, was
mortally wounded at the battle of Caters Woods in Virginia. As Jack Skelly was
laying along a road after the battle as a prisoner, a friend from Gettysburg,
in one of history's odd twists, Wesley Culp a Confederate soldier marched by.
Wesley recognized the dying Skelly, who asked Culp to help write a letter to
his sweetheart Jennie Wade. However, Wesley never had a chance to deliver the
letter to Jennie because on July 3, 1863, at the bottom of his uncle's farm
known as Culp's Hill, he was fatally shot in the head.
Four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, when Abraham Lincoln went to
Gettysburg to dedicate the soldier's cemetery, he was told about Jennie Wade
and how she had been killed while making bread for the Union soldiers. Lincoln
was so moved by the story that he asked Jennie's sister Georgia to sit beside
him on the platform while he delivered the Gettysburg Address.
I haven’t read through this, nor spell checked it, but I did numerous other
things to ensure a good quality scan. Also, the scan is from a large print
book, and my experience is that those are usually very clean. But naturally, I
will hold on to the book until it gets approved in case the proofreader has any
questions.
If anyone wants it, let me know and I’ll submit it with a Hold in the title.
Thanks.
Evan
