Research and New Reviews for Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory. More on the Incredible American Scoundrel, Dan Sickles at Gettysburg tomorrow

Since I posted the fifth section of my series on Dan Sickles, America’s incredible scoundrel, I decided that the sixth section on Sickles’ actions at Gettysburg and the controversies surrounding them needed a lot more work. They were not bad, but needed improvement if I want to do more with them in academic circles. In light of two new reviews of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, I decided that I needed to do more from the primary sources. The reviews are actually quite good. They make very legitimate criticisms of my early reliance on very good, even excellent secondary sources, and some of the copy editing, part of which was my fault for not going back to double check the copy editors work on the spelling of names.

I took not of this when I got my hardback copies of the published book. When I read them I didn’t blames the copy editor, but only myself. I am taking note of that for my second book, and what is coming down the line. Here are the links to the reviews. They are positive, and the reviewers did good work.

https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58338

https://readingreligion.org/9781640124882/

I hope to have the Gettysburg section on Dan Sickles out by COB tomorrow.

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Meanwhile, there is a lot going on in the legal travails of the Seditionist in Chief, and in the world that I need to write about. After I finish the series on Dan Sickles I promise to get around to that. Likewise, I am trying to get a head start on the next class in my Doctor of Strategic Leadership program so I don’t get overwhelmed and behind like last year. That was painful. The good thing was that having retired from the Navy as a Commander, I got advanced standing and once finish with this year move directly into my final project, a book on leadership, dealing with Civil War leaders in light of modern leadership theory. I hope to be working on that that even while doing this classwork.

So have a great night and better tomorrow.