The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor (Letters & Journals)
Posted on Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
The Writing Process : Tennessee Valor (Journals and Letters)
I have been examining the letters and journals of the men of the 7th Tennessee. Some 20 hours of research has resulted in the typing of nearly [...]
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor (2nd Lt. David Phillips)
Posted on Friday, January 21st, 2011
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor
5 hours produced 1400 words in Chapter 2. These passages follow the boys of the 7th Tennessee as they are trained to be soldiers. I focused on what life was [...]
The Writing Proccess — Tennessee Valor (Robert Hatton)
Posted on Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
The Writing Process–Tennessee Valor
11 hours over 3 days of writing enabled me to complete a workable draft of chapter 1 (around 5,000 words), and begin chapter 2 (around 2,400 words).
Chapter 1 opens with the 7th [...]
The Writing Process: Tennessee Valor (Lt. Col. Samuel George Shepard)
Posted on Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
The Writing Process – Tennessee Valor (Samuel George Shepard)
4 more hours of working on the manuscript, resulting in 1,400 more words on paper. Tomorrow I’ll revise and then add more. I’ve just had the first [...]
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Posted on Monday, January 3rd, 2011
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor
The first day of writing; the review and research phase of the project is complete.
The first paragraph, and the first sentence are always the most difficult to write. I don’t [...]
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor (Pvt. Thomas Hale)
Posted on Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor
Communications with descendants of men from the 7th Tennessee has been a most rewarding experience. Many descendants have generously provided information about their ancestors, and in some cases, furnished [...]
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor (Bullets & Beans)
Posted on Friday, December 24th, 2010
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor (Bullets & Beans)
I enjoyed 5 hours of research trying to determine the answer to two questions;
1) How many men supported the combat soldiers?
And 2) how many wagons did the [...]
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor
Posted on Sunday, December 19th, 2010
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor
15 hours finished the initial survey of the men in the 7th Tennessee. All ten companies have been studied and the veterans who composed the units at Gettysburg have been [...]
The Writing Process — Eli Smith (Co. I) 7th Tennessee Infantry
Posted on Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
The Writing Process — Eli Smith (Co. I) 7th Tennessee Infantry
I’ve had a series of communications with a descendant (a great-great-grandson) of a veteran of the 7th Tennessee.
Eli Smith was a private throughout the war. [...]
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor
Posted on Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor
Seven hours of research finished up Companies ‘F’ and ‘G’.
These two companies, though both from Wilson County, were as different as night and day. Company F, commanded by Captain Asoph [...]
