That’s my book right there, and you’ve made the correction. I know about the Emancipation. I know about the Army of Northern Virginia and the other armies, but I didn’t want to bother the reader with that kind of detail. This is a book for the modern reader who wants a high-altitude view of the war, and doesn’t have time for minutia such as the causes and effects of the war, the battles and flow of the war, the complexity of the personalities who fought the war, and painfully irrelevant and boring historical facts.
Are you revising history by omission
How can a historical fact be painful and irrelevant? The relevancy of the fact is what makes the fact painful.
Even Rush Limbaugh’s history books for children provide enough minutia to understand history.