You never know how much you don't know until you start to research and realize that you don't know anything... Still shuddering inwardly at the fact that I wrote *an entire book* about two Civil War veterans without fully grasping my own lack of knowledge.
To be fair, this was much easier to ignore when I was not trying to come up with a list of questions that a Civil War veteran who fell asleep in 1864 might have upon suddenly awakening in The Future, which inevitably raises questions like "Was the Fourteenth Amendment even a glimmer in anyone's eye in the spring of 1864? Which southern generals does he think ought to be hanged?" (Nathan Bedford Forest probably; Russell fell asleep not long after the For Pillow massacre.) And so forth and so on.
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Date: 2020-11-26 02:17 am (UTC)To be fair, this was much easier to ignore when I was not trying to come up with a list of questions that a Civil War veteran who fell asleep in 1864 might have upon suddenly awakening in The Future, which inevitably raises questions like "Was the Fourteenth Amendment even a glimmer in anyone's eye in the spring of 1864? Which southern generals does he think ought to be hanged?" (Nathan Bedford Forest probably; Russell fell asleep not long after the For Pillow massacre.) And so forth and so on.