War of the Rebellion records

[Garnier]

The full text of the War of the Rebellion records is available online here:
http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/moawar/waro.html

I've removed most of the errors from one 4000-word after action report and posted it here.

I like reading these when I'm bored or looking for inspiration, so I might put some more up. Since the documents are visually scanned from the hard copy, there are tons of spelling errors, page numbers and titles mixed in with the text that have to be removed.

[SouthernSteel]

Silly Garnier, you don't remove spelling errors from primary documents
If the error were in the printed text, that's one thing, but all errors in primary documents are to be kept unless the word is illegible or requires explanation.

Spellings that you know are wrong but are faithful to the original writer can be denoted by [sic]

[Turbotay]

History revisionist!!! :ohmy:

[Garnier]

I look for the obvious scanner errors. It's possible that some original spelling errors will be lost since I'm not doing them all by hand.

Got a problem with any of these replacements?

cornmander|commander
ma~ched|marched
tnrned|turned
In.~ fantry| Infantry
Rnn|Run
Uomdg.|Comdg.
In fantry|Infantry
regim~nt|regiment
re-.. mained|re-mained
~nd| and
&|&
TaneytQwn|Taneytown
Meehanicstown|Mechanicstown
Beport|Report
Donov~an|Donovan
regimnent|regiment
lionor|honor
abont|about
abbut| about
bivouacke |bivouacked
playjug|playing
iMiechanicstown|Mechanicstown
~undown|sundown
Gaptain|Captain
6Yomdg.|Comdg.
lieavy|heavy
aa though|although
conductever|conduct ever
regimeiit|regiment
ilearly|nearly
fof |for
Bri~ij.|Brigade
Em.. mitsburg|Emmitsburg
witlithe|with the

[Turbotay]

So you're saying you are cleaning up the mess that was made by a program used to scan the original documents and translate them into a digital format? ...Nevermind.

[SouthernSteel]

So did something run to convert the words in the images to text? No, most of those are fine, although it's odd that it creates ~. I would think that would be a placeholder for an illegible character, but maybe not in this case. In any event, those are fine.

[Garnier]

I would think that would be a placeholder for an illegible character

I assume that's what it is doing.

But anyway, I found a more convenient place to read them. These are just scanned images of the hard copy, not text.

http://www.archive.org/stream/2warofrebellion11secrrich