Friday, March 19, 2004 ::: Interview with an Editor
The job I interviewed for involves working on some Civil War books. I thought I did pretty good right out of the gate. The first exchange:
Interviewer: Suppose you were assigned to prepare a unit history of the 88th North Carolina Regiment. What sources would you look in first?
Me: North Carolina only raised sixty-eight regiments during the war.
At another point they gave me a paragraph from one of their books that had been all screwed up on purpose, filled with typos and misspellings. My job was to correct it in 15 minutes. One thing I noticed was they mentioned General Burnside and the Army of Ohio. Any dolt knows the Yankees named their armies after rivers, so that would be Army of the Ohio. It sure was nice to be in a position where that little bit of knowledge came in useful.
Speaking of the Civil War . . .
Quote of the Day:
Cam laid him gently behind a tree, whipped tears off his own cheeks, then walked back into the killing.
