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 (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 [...]
Writing Process — Tennessee Valor
Posted on Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor: The 7th Tennessee Infantry at Gettysburg
Four hours finished the analysis of the men of Company E. Here is a brief summary:
Company E, of the organizations I have studied so [...]
Writing Project — Tennessee Valor: The 7th Tennessee at Gettysburg
Posted on Monday, December 6th, 2010
The Writing Process — Tennessee Valor: The 7th Tennessee at Gettysburg
This past weekend; Saturday and Sunday; plus this morning, I accumulated 15 hours of research on the 7th Tennessee.
I have been working on detailing out [...]
