Hi Evan i'll be glad to proof read it for you.
Kenny Peyatt
On 5/16/2015 8:59 PM, Evan Reese wrote:
Thanks Susan, I’ll wait a bit to see if anyone else wants it. If I don’t hear from anyone in a day or two, I’ll send it up for you.
Evan
*From:* Susan Lumpkin <mailto:slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I’ll be glad to take it if you like, Evan and no one else has!
Susan
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*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Historical Romance Needs a Proofreader
Hello Folks,
I’ve scanned a historical romance set during the Civil War that I need a proofreader for. Lissi doesn’t want to do it because it has a sad ending. So anyone else is forewarned.
It’s called There Was a Time: A Civil War Romance and it’s by Kenneth Neff Hammontree, ISBN 0-9761327-0-2.
Here’s the info from inside flaps and back cover for anyone who wants an idea as to what it’s about:
[from inside flaps]
The Civil War was a time of great tragedy for the United States--and great drama. Kenneth Hammontree, in this second printing of There Was a Time, focuses on a small but poignant story from the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg.
Mary Virginia "Jennie" Wade was helping her mother make bread in her sister's little brick house. Right in the midst of the fighting for Gettysburg, she was struck down by a Confederate sharpshooter's bullet. Unknown to Jennie, her childhood sweetheart, Corporal Jack Skelly, was at that very hour suffering with wounds inflicted during the battle of Carters Woods, from which he would soon die.
Author Hammontree shows us the thoughts and feelings of Jennie, Jack, and their families on those fateful days of June and July 1863. We see the full bloom of love between the ill-fated pair, their tentative plans for the future amid the destruction and uncertainty of war, and the reactions of the people around them.
Kenneth Hammontree captures precisely the combination of excitement and the dread that overcame Gettysburg and its inhabitants, making us feel as if we were actually there. And finally, he has given us a fictionalized version of Jack's farewell letter to Jennie written in the hospital and lost during the Battle of Gettysburg.
All told, There Was A Time is an educational and touching experience not to be missed by any discerning reader.
[from the back cover]
Sister's death places a woman on the stage of history.
The story about the two star crossed lovers is told in the Civil War Romance novel "There Was a Time" by Kenneth Neff Hammontree of Ashland, Ohio. The story focuses on a small but poignant story from the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Jennie Wade was helping her mother make bread for the Union soldiers when she was struck down by a sharpshooter's bullet.
Unknown to Jennie Wade, her childhood sweetheart, Corporal "Jack" Skelly, was mortally wounded at the battle of Caters Woods in Virginia. As Jack Skelly was laying along a road after the battle as a prisoner, a friend from Gettysburg, in one of history's odd twists, Wesley Culp a Confederate soldier marched by.
Wesley recognized the dying Skelly, who asked Culp to help write a letter to his sweetheart Jennie Wade. However, Wesley never had a chance to deliver the letter to Jennie because on July 3, 1863, at the bottom of his uncle's farm known as Culp's Hill, he was fatally shot in the head.
Four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, when Abraham Lincoln went to Gettysburg to dedicate the soldier's cemetery, he was told about Jennie Wade and how she had been killed while making bread for the Union soldiers. Lincoln was so moved by the story that he asked Jennie's sister Georgia to sit beside him on the platform while he delivered the Gettysburg Address.
I haven’t read through this, nor spell checked it, but I did numerous other things to ensure a good quality scan. Also, the scan is from a large print book, and my experience is that those are usually very clean. But naturally, I will hold on to the book until it gets approved in case the proofreader has any questions.
If anyone wants it, let me know and I’ll submit it with a Hold in the title.
Thanks.
Evan
