Template:Did you know nominations/5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate)

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 00:49, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate)

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... that during the Battle of Port Gibson, the 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) was sometimes only 10 feet (3.0 m) away from the enemy? Source 31 in the text
- ALT1:... that for the 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate), the Siege of Vicksburg was a "sharp conflict" and "deadly slaughter"? Source 56 in the text
- ALT2:... that the strength of the 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) went from 618 men to 276 men in less than a year despite the regiment receiving 100 reinforcements? Sources 1, 18, and 69 in the text

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Comment: If none of these are deemed interesting, there's 19kb of readable prose in the article. I'm sure I can come up with others.

Moved to mainspace by Hog Farm (talk). Self-nominated at 02:30, 25 June 2020 (UTC).

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: A well-written and -referenced new article. Its sources are reliable print sources, but almost none of the text is available online. The main hook is hooky enough, but its citation was not viewable online for me (nor were the citations for the ALT hooks). I assume good faith, but ask for a sentence quotation from the hook source. — AjaxSmack 01:05, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

@AjaxSmack: - For the first hook, it's "In the Fifth Missouri's sector, the dug-in defenders behind the creek bank blasted away at targets only ten feet distant". For the first alt (this is part of a quote from a diary of a 5th Missouri soldier in the context of Vicksburg) "and after a sharp conflict drove back the foe with deadly slaughter". For the other alt, "At the regiment's initial muster [September 1, 1862] it counted 618 men", "a company of 100 exchanged prisoners, all Missourians, joined the regiment" and "276 regimental soldiers received paroles following the surrender [July 4, 1863]". Hog Farm _Bacon 03:53, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Great. — AjaxSmack 05:04, 12 July 2020 (UTC)