You may notice a decline in blog posts over the next week or so, as I am putting all of my energies into completing the transcripts for my book on Confederate encampments in Spotsylvania County. I have a late-August deadline and although I have been rolling along in a fairly efficient manner, I still have a lot of work to do. I am very pleased with the variety of perspectives I have been able to acquire and I believe the end product will be both an interesting read, as well as a valuable resource.

In order for me to re-type these excerpts, I had to set up a separate work station in my office. I now have two laptops and a dual-flat panel monitor set-up, which displays the digitized and/or scanned letters on one screen, and my working document on the other. My family is loving this arrangement as it frees up the desktop workstation for them to work on their Facebook pages, but as I am a two-finger typist, you can imagine how that is going on my end. To date, I have extracted quotes from approximately 40 letters with 40 more to go. (Yes… I’ve written 6 books and 400 articles and I still can’t type without peeking.)