Talk:78th Illinois Infantry Regiment

Consistent citation formatting

According to the guideline, citations should be consistent throughout an article. I changed some to CS1 while I was here fixing a ref name issue, but found this introduced inconsistencies with the unchanged citations. I restored the original formatting in the lower reference section, and the upper reference section now uses cite web. Any opinion on which should be used in both sections? Or, are they close enough, and the sections far enough apart, that an exception would be ok? The main difference is in the volumes, given twice in the original format, the introduction of the website domain (which could be removed) and the position of the author and year. —PC-XT+ 05:53, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

I am probably to blame about that. Last night, I noticed that a BOT had flagged the article because of a citation. I tried to fix the problem, but kept running into the same problem. I, too, agree that cite web should be used... I wasn't that familiar with it, but now that I use Provel, which uses cite web, I can edit it with or without easily. I may try this evening to convert the remaining citations to cite web.

Thanks for working on the article. This is one of those that given more time, I will develop further. I have a couple books on the unit, and of course the usual Adjutant General's items. I have worked to develop the timeline, to which I would like to write a short narrative to each. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gparkes (talk • contribs) 19:46, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

It's looking great, thanks for sharing that knowledge! By the way, the reason the reference broke was that ref names are forgotten after a {{reflist}}. Because of this, the ref name="Jasper" must be redefined before it is used under the first reference list, even though it was already defined earlier in the same article. —PC-XT+ 04:21, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

I never saw it; I believe that I must have done a copy and paste somewhere along the way and I see that there were 2 reference spots. Relocated them to the end so the errors are gone. Thank you that point! If you would like, take a look at another page that is about in the same point, and I need to continue adding details. It is 9th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment. Another page, related to the 78th Illinois, is its Division and later Corps commander, Jefferson C. Davis. Any comments that you might have, would be appreciated. Thanks! Greg (talk) 00:25, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

They're all looking good! I'll add them to my watchlist. —PC-XT+ 06:39, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Your current article on this subject contains numerous egregious errors. Just to cite a few: The 78th Illinois did not travel by boat down the Mississippi on September 19, 1862; it traveled by train in open coal cars through Illinois and Indiana to Jeffersonville, then crossed the Ohio River by ferry to Louisville. It did not fight at Fort Donelson as your article says. It also did not fight at New Hope Church, but did fight in other battles around Dallas, Georgia. It did not fight in the Battle of Atlanta. After its heroic action in the Battle of Jonesboro, which led to the evacuation of Atlanta, it was involved in a fruitless pursuit of the Confederate Army under John Bell Hood in Alabama, then participated in Sherman's March to the Sea and in the South and North Carolina campaigns, fighting at Averasboro and Bentonville. A complete (and accurate) history of the regiment is available in my book, "In the Very Thickest of the Fight, the Civil War Experience of the 78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment" (Globe Pequot Press 2012). 66.165.10.163 (talk) 23:54, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

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