Comments on: “W.”, Co. E, 1st Special Louisiana Battalion, On the Battle http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/w-co-e-1st-special-louisiana-battalion-on-the-battle/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Thu, 23 May 2013 14:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lyle Smith http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/w-co-e-1st-special-louisiana-battalion-on-the-battle/#comment-22755 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:03:50 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10621#comment-22755 My moment of cynicism has passed. I wasn’t suspecting this particular letter to have been invented. Being that it was published in a newspaper just gave me pause for it and others.

]]> By: Harry Smeltzer http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/w-co-e-1st-special-louisiana-battalion-on-the-battle/#comment-22754 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:59:17 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10621#comment-22754 Keeping in mind that anything is possible, even a regiment of vampires saving the day for the Confederates at Bull Run, I think it’s not very likely that many letters were “made up.”

]]> By: Lyle Smith http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/w-co-e-1st-special-louisiana-battalion-on-the-battle/#comment-22750 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 04:11:23 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10621#comment-22750 What’s the likelihood that editors and journalists made up some of these published letters?

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