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Battle of Cove Mountain


I've listed this article for peer review because I plan to get it to Good Article.

Thanks, TwoScars (talk) 19:53, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Comments by Dudley

 * "An outnumbered Union cavalry division". It is a matter of personal taste, but I think it would make it easier to follow if you left out "outnumbered" here and give details in the next paragraph.
 * "detachment of a brigade of cavalry, belonging to Brigadier General William E. "Grumble" Jones". "belonging to" sounds odd to me, as if they were his slaves.
 * "totaling to about 400" to about sounds strange to me. Is it AmerEng?
 * "captured one company from the 8th Virginia Cavalry" You mean that an entire company surrendered? How many men?
 * "Historian Robert C. Whisonant wrote that Confederate casualties were 40.[33] Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Buel wrote that Confederate casualties were "fifty or sixty".[22] The historian for Morgan's Cavalry, Confederate Brigadier General Basil W. Duke, wrote that casualties were "about fifty". I am not sure that you need that much detail about the different estimates. Maybe just say 40 to 60?
 * "by a ruse on a telegraph" Details of the ruse would be interesting.
 * "Major General Philip Sheridan requested his dismissal from the service." Maybe state whether he was dismissed.
 * This article looks sound. Apart from the minor queries above, I would have like more spelling out of the comparative sizes of the forces in each encounter or other situation - e.g "He also learned that 4,500 Confederate troops led by John Hunt Morgan and William "Grumble" Jones were waiting for him at Saltville." Instead of "waiting for him", "waiting for his [number] troops". Dudley Miles (talk) 13:19, 26 July 2022 (UTC)