805:"While the historian James McGhee states that Mitchell's regiment did not take part in the campaign, instead remaining at Fort Pleasant, other sources state that the regiment was engaged in a skirmish near Gaines' Landing on the Mississippi on June 28, along with the 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment and the 1st Missouri Field Battery." reads a bit run-on, might benefit from being chopped in half.
999:"While the withdrawal was initially orderly, Parsons' and Tappan's divisions became panicked as night fell, and it became a rout. The Confederates to the left of Parsons and Tappan had failed to make any meaningful progress against Union breastworks, and the battle ended with nightfall." These two sentences seem to be in reverse chronological order.
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Context and background seem like similar themes -- is it really necessary to provide this much detail in a unit article? I think it might be best to trim these two sections back a little and maybe consolidate into a single section
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It is not perpetuated by any current or past units. I have found no evidence of any monuments or memorials to the unit. Frankly, this unit left no legacy. Of all the
Missouri CSA units, it seems like the
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I can't act on this one right now. I don't have McGhee with me at the moment, Google Books doesn't let me access the needed page, and there's no libraries holding a copy near me that I can find.
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Yeah, I don't see this one at FAC anytime soon. Aside from a couple of the artillery batteries, most of these
Missouri Confederate units have a likely ceiling at A-class or even GA for a few.
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is there anything that can be said about the unit's legacy? Is it perpetuated by any current units, or are there any memorials etc? How are they remembered by current day
Missourians?
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was its' lieutenant colonel, and W. H. L. Frazier, the former commander of
Frazier's Missouri Infantry Battalion, was its major." If this is correct?
550:"The ten companies were all Missouri-raised" but wasn't it raised in Arkansas? Perhaps "all ten companies were made up of recruits from Missouri"?
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as part of the Little Rock campaign]].) Redlinked, but there's enough of a mess there I don't feel like cleaning up that campaign at the moment
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The election was decided largely along regional lines, as much of
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Dropped that phrase and moved the 7 and 8 March part up, as I feel that it's best to have the date at the start of the sentence.
212:: G'day, Hog Farm, hope you are well. Thanks for your efforts so far on this article. I have the following comments/suggestions
991:"Additional Union units reentered the fray" I am not sure about this, if they "reentered" in what way were they "aditional"?
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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234:- I've taken a hand at some trimming. Is what I've done sufficient, or do I need to break the pruning shears back out?
910:"Jackson decided to mobilize the state militia to a point outside of St. Louis". 1. Delete "of" 2. Do you mean that he
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Actually occurring a bit concurrently, does adding a "Meanwhile" to the start of the second sentence help this?
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just be consistent with the possessive, either
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I have done a little copy editing. Shout if there is anything I have got wrong or that you don't understand.
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OUP book is attributed to "Richard Holmes, Charles
Singleton, and Dr Spencer Jones" according to OUP website
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1007:"suffered 29 casualties, including seven men killed." you should consistently use either numbers or words.
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Thanks for taking this on. I was starting to get the impression that nobody found this one interesting.
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did the unit have a name when it was briefly a regiment after being raised?
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and Price" as I don't get the purpose of a subordinating conjunction here
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No article on the Union capture of Little Rock? Is it worth red linking?
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Just check it when you can, nothing to hold up promotion left here.
422:- Thanks for taking a look at this one. I've replied to all above.
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777:- Are the adjustments here and to the point below to your liking?
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Perhaps specify 'Artillery fire from the 1st Kansas Battery'?
353:"As Parsons's division began moving forward to attack" --: -->
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Additional in addition to the 58th Illinois Infantry Regiment
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Image review: pass, no issues; all images are freely licensed
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in the Sources section, Holmes is out of alphabetical order
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Price, McCulloch" as you tell us it was on 7 and 8 March
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close to the Union line with support from Ruffner's..."
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the (already mobilised) militia? Because if they were
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266:"and fighting soon became more large-scale" --: -->
362:"At this point, the Clark and Gause broke" --: -->
283:in the 1864-1865 section, Louisiana is overlinked
1050:- All replied to above. Thanks for reviewing!.
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354:"As Parsons's division moved forward to attack"
335:"and the retreat became very disorderly" --: -->
339:Changed wording to reflect a rout, which it was
326:"Parsons' and Tappan's division became" --: -->
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609:was Pinnell's diary published before 1999?
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366:Added "brigades of" between the and Clark
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898:on June 7". A picky point: surely its
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291:"20 of them became casaulties" --: -->
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248:Yes, that looks ok to me. Thanks,
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509:I don't really, either. Fixed
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951:: "called" → 'designated'?
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