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Did you know... that as a child, American Civil War historian Charles P. Roland heard first-hand accounts of the war from veterans who served in it?
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Hi, I came by to promote this, but I don't see the quote attributed to footnote 3 in that source, and that source also said he heard these accounts as "a young man", not "a child".
Yoninah (
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19:57, 23 December 2019 (UTC)reply
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Yoninah:Woops! I mixed up the Kentucky and Uky sources there. The Kentucky one includes the quote and says: "...Roland recalled as a boy hearing firsthand accounts of the Civil War from those who fought in it." which I editorialized as child. This is now fixed.
–MJL‐Talk‐☖20:20, 23 December 2019 (UTC)reply
A fact from Charles P. Roland appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 December 2019 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that as a child, American Civil War historian Charles P. Roland heard first-hand accounts of the war from veterans who served in it?
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Hi, I came by to promote this, but I don't see the quote attributed to footnote 3 in that source, and that source also said he heard these accounts as "a young man", not "a child".
Yoninah (
talk)
19:57, 23 December 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Yoninah:Woops! I mixed up the Kentucky and Uky sources there. The Kentucky one includes the quote and says: "...Roland recalled as a boy hearing firsthand accounts of the Civil War from those who fought in it." which I editorialized as child. This is now fixed.
–MJL‐Talk‐☖20:20, 23 December 2019 (UTC)reply