Template:Did you know nominations/Byron Root Pierce

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 23:35, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Byron Root Pierce

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... that Byron Root Pierce was Michigan's last living Civil War general? Source: "Pierce was a member of the GAR and MOLLUS and was Michigan's last living Civil War general" (Finney & McIntosh, Remembering Michigan's Civil War Soldiers, p. 19)
- ALT1: ... that General Byron Root Pierce participated in all of the major battles in the east during the American Civil War? Source: "He would be wounded five times by the war's end, and was present at every major battle in the east from First Bull Run to Appomattox". (Miller, Richard, Harvard's Civil War, p. 385)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Zoe Colletti

Created by Darwin Naz (talk). Self-nominated at 12:03, 22 December 2021 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is long enough and new enough (created in draftspace on 7 Dec but moved to mainspace yesterday). Earwig looks good and hook is sourced here and in the body of the article (AGF offline source). Looks good to go. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:42, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Darwin Naz (talk) 00:45, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

ALT0 to T:DYK/P7