describe john porter and his family. it s a very interesting crowd of people. they are still in evidence in kentucky. they don t move away from here much. how long did it take you to put this together? i suppose the manuscript was given to me and 1995. in the between 1995 though and when this book was finally released in february of this year, i published a number of other books. and so it s not as though i took all of that time. i published a book called a retreat from gettysburg in 2005. from 2005 on i began working in earnest on this. i corrected the manuscript so it s readable. i still have the flavor. then what i did, i annotated it. so that when john porter is mentioning any of these people, and there are hundreds of people he names in here, mostly in the original manuscript, either last names. he thought they knew all of these people. and she probably did. but to us, we would have no idea who mr. covington was at any given sight in warren county, for instance. so