Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book.

Incorrect and missing page references in the Table of Contents have been corrected.

Unbalanced quotation marks were repaired when the intent was clear; otherwise they were unchanged.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Some misspelled words or typographical errors occurred only once and have been corrected to the following: consummation, admissible, phenomenal, brimming, scandalous, iniquitous, poring, chaparral.

These typographical errors were not corrected: cravans (should be cravens), reconnoissance, reconnoisance (both should be reconnaissance), vis-Á-vis (should be vis-À-vis).

Text uses "assult" and "assault", "wasn't" and "was'nt"; none changed.

The inconsistent spacing and use of small-caps for "A.M." and "P.M." has not been changed.

Page 180: "Red Sea" was misprinted as "Red Rea"; correction made based on comparision with other printings of the same poem.

Page 336: "the situation was known Hood" probably should be "known to Hood".

Page 341: "worthy its great founder" probably should be "worthy of".

Page 347: "marked and scared" probably should be "scarred".

Page 400: "Villianow" and "Villainow" both appear and are unchanged here; current spelling is "Villanow".

Page 410: "Buel" was spelled with just one "l". All other occurrences are spelled "Buell" but as they may refer to different people, this was not changed.

Page 431: Text is missing after "Of course the abandonment to us by the enemy".

Page 436: "sineury" probably should be "sinewy".

Pages 440 and 441 were printed in the wrong sequence; corrected here.