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I have reverted the recent large edit. Although there is some good material there, the faults are numerous and I don't feel like doing the laborious editing necessary to fix them. Please resubmit if you choose, fixing the following:

Provide citations for all opinions. See WP:CITE. Use the style in WP:FN. (Any opinions in the original text are covered by the limited number of References, but since you're offering counter-opinions, they need to be differentiated.)
Reword phrases like "causing much fretting and great anguish for the Gray Fox" to be more encyclopedic.
Spellcheck. There are quite a few misspelled words.
Cavalry in almost all cases should be lowercased.
Link generals' names to their articles.
Link Union corps names and use the prevailing style for numbering them, e.g., III Corps, not 3rd Corps. (In general, the prevailing style for ACW battle and bio articles is described in User:Hlj/CWediting. Although it is not mandatory, it makes sense to follow the style within an existing article.)
Remove commentary from References section entries. You can use footnotes if needed.
Remove your name from the bottom. We don't sign articles, only Talk pages.

Hal Jespersen 16:52, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Added refimprove box

The article has some strong statements and whole sections of unreferenced material.Jusda fax 04:47, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the template. The references in this article are mixed with “notes” and the effect is unencyclopedic. Additionally, portions of the article come off as a hatchet-job. We need a rewrite from a NPOV. Jus da fax 09:00, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

statue

I am removing the sentence "There are of course those who believe it is Alfred, based on the Major General buttons on the statue's uniform and the fact that George G. Meade was also not Pennsylvania-born." It is original research, not based on a reliable source. In fact, Augustus was also a brevet major general, so the buttons mean nothing. And Meade, although technically born in Spain, was the son of a prominent Philadelphia family on temporary government assignment overseas, so the point about him is misplaced as well. Hal Jespersen (talk) 18:46, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Augustus was a Washington-born brigadier general. See Report of Brigadier Gen'l A. J. Pleasonton, commanding the Home guard of the city of Philadelphia, 1863. https://archive.org/details/reportofbrigadie00phil/page/n3/mode/2up Zschrag (talk) 02:49, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]