Reading, Writing and Rebellion: Levels of Formal Education in the Confederate Army‪.‬

Introduction The Confederate Soldier and the South he defended have been the subject of research and the object of adoration or hatred since Fort Sumter. The opinions about him, his time and his place have reflected one bias or another generally causing oversimplification of his vices and virtues depending largely upon what one cares to believe, and on occasion, what the evidence shows. After the slavery issue, it is education that brings out the greatest biases of section, politics or ancestry.