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Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank the unknown readers of the manuscript, who kept us from making mistakes and provided helpful suggestions for improvement ; Editor-in-Chief Mary Lenn Dixon and other staff of Texas A&M University Press; James D. Wilson Jr., assistant director at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, for digitizing the photographs that provide another viewpoint for the reader; James Andrew Sayle Gentry, for producing the maps, which are so essential for the combat part of the book, and who helped with the production of transcripts of the recordings of Johnny Moore’s memories ; Dr. Richard J. Sommers and other staff at the US Army Military History Institute at the Army Heritage Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the research staff at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland, who helped locate important primary sources; the staff at the Edith Garland Dupre Library of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, who brought to our attention digitized newspapers that were on loan to the library for short periods and who never complained about the large number of books we requested through the interlibrary loan system; Mathé Allain, who read the entire manuscript, recommending on almost every page words, phrases, and even sentences for omission to reduce the length without harming the context; and our spouses, for being supportive and putting up with our seemingly unending attention to the production of this book. ...

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