User talk:Orser67

I need some help with a reference you added...

that I have been trying to verify without any success.
You added a ref to Presidency of Millard Fillmore in 2018 and subsequently to Winfield Scott in 2019.
In the Presidential election of 1852 section of the Scott article this statement appears:

Despite the party's effort to appeal to southerners by nominating William Alexander Graham of North Carolina for vice president, many Southern Whigs, including Alexander H. Stephens and Robert Toombs, refused to support Scott. *(A similar statement appears in the Fillmore article.)

The cite that references this statement is:

{{sfn|McPherson|p=118}}

Well the problem with that for the Scott article is that there are two books by McPherson mentioned there:

The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, published in 2003.

and

Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, published in 2008.

I figured out it couldn't be from the 2008 volume, that is only about Lincoln as Commander in Chief (though yes I did look there on Page 118 and that page wasn't about Scott, etc) and the book doesn't deal with Scott and the Whig Convention of 1852. So then I thought the reference must be on Page 118 of The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom. Apparently not. Nothing about the Convention appears on Page 118 of the "Illustrated" McPherson book. (That page is concerned with the Brooks attack upon Sumner in the US Senate.) I poked around in the Illustrated book trying various search terms dealing with Stephens, Toombs, Graham, the 1852 Whig Convention and was unsuccessful with that. I've put a template on the sentence in the Scott article saying it "failed verification", along with a template on the Fillmore article. I'd appreciate it if you could help me clear this up for both articles. Thanks - Shearonink (talk) 21:49, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Shearonink, my apologies for any issues I caused, and thank you putting in the work to make Wikipedia better. You are correct that "Battle Cry of Freedom" is the book that I mean to cite. My guess is that I was sloppy and was using a different version of Battle Cry of Freedom than the one in the works cited section of the Millard Fillmore presidency article. I will look into this further if I can find some time. Orser67 (talk) 04:49, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Muchly appreciated. - Shearonink (talk) 11:01, 17 July 2024 (UTC)