http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/americas-civil-war-july-2009/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Thu, 23 May 2013 14:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/americas-civil-war-july-2009/#comment-10648 Wed, 13 May 2009 15:44:59 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=4641#comment-10648 [...] blogs, America’s Civil War, Kelvin Holland, authority, authorship, read-write Web by cenantua As Harry pointed out a few days ago, this blog was reviewed by Kelvin Holland in the July issue of America’s Civil War (see page [...]

]]> http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/americas-civil-war-july-2009/#comment-10628 Sat, 09 May 2009 17:58:35 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=4641#comment-10628 [...] Harry Smeltzer has a nice review of the July 2009 issue of America’s Civil War up at Bull [...]

]]> http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/americas-civil-war-july-2009/#comment-10560 Fri, 08 May 2009 23:56:12 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=4641#comment-10560 Harry,
The hacking away of your six pack reviews reminds me of the anecdote that Ben Franklin told Jefferson when they were pruning the Declaration of Indepedence: “I have made it a rule,” said Franklin, “whenever in my power, to avoid becoming the draughtsman of papers to be reviewed by a public body. I took my lesson from an incident which I will relate to you. When I was a journeyman printer, one of my companions, an apprentice hatter, having served out his time, was about to open shop for himself. His first concern was to have a handsome sign- board, with a proper inscription. He composed it in these words, ‘John Thompson, Hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money,’ with a figure of a hat subjoined; but he thought he would submit it to his friends for their amendments. The first he showed it to thought the word ‘Hatter’ tautologous, because followed by the words ‘makes hats,’ which show he was a hatter. It was struck out. The next observed that the word ‘makes’ might as well be omitted, because his customers would not care who made the hats. If good and to their mind, they would buy, by whomsoever made. He struck it out. A third said he thought the words ‘for ready money’ were useless as it was not the custom of the place to sell on credit. Every one who purchased expected to pay. They were parted with, and the inscription now stood, ‘John Thompson sells hats.’ ‘Sells hats,’ says his next friend! Why nobody will expect you to give them away, what then is the use of that word? It was stricken out, and ‘hats’ followed it, the rather as there was one painted on the board. So the inscription was reduced ultimately to ‘John Thompson’ with the figure of a hat subjoined.”.
Hoped you liked the anecdote,
Chris

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