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[Mark Mandel]

Thanks, Joel. I can see that as an OCR error that the editor missed,
especially if they were counting on a spellchecker as a spotter: three
vertical strokes, an "a", and two more. The other errors I noticed were
also plausible as such, e.g., *ill *for* in: *

 To interest these military gentlemen, there were bulletins of the war
between Prussia and Austria; between England and France, on the old
battle-plains of Flanders; and between the same antagonists, *ill* the
newer fields of the East Indies, and in our own trackless woods, where
white men never trod until they came to fight there.

Mark


On Feb 20, 2017 7:12 AM, "Joel Berson" <berson at att.net> wrote:

Mark, that's what you get from trusting a press named weird.

The true text, as given in the Ohio State Press edition (vol. 11), is
"Every *man* was a soldier ...".

Joel

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