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"The south had the highest illiteracy in the country and I doubt that the common soldier on either side had ever even read the Constitution."

Big myth.

Americans and including Southerners, were well versed in there Constitutional rights. It was a common charactestic noted by Europeans when visiting the U.S. Education in the South by 1860 was common, not so much by 1870, where many ex-Confederate states saw a decline in total white persons attending school.

In 1850 Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia had a combined population of students attending school at well over 650,000, that's males and females. Thats from a total white population of 4.4 million. Over 14% of the white population was attending school that year; nearly double the total number of adult whites that could not read.

------------------Total white population 1850---Total Whites Adults who cannot read 1850---Total persons attending schoo 1850l--------------Total white person attending school 1870

Alabama-------------426,514---------------------------- 33,757------------------------------------62,846------------------------------------------------61,324
Arkansas------------162,189-----------------------------16,819------------------------------------23,362
Florida----------------47,203------------------------------3,859--------------------------------------4,812
Georgia--------------521,572----------------------------41,200-------------------------------------77,016-----------------------------------------------67,000
Louisiana------------255,491----------------------------21,221--------------------------------------34,057
Mississippi-----------295,718----------------------------13,405-------------------------------------48,803-----------------------------------------------33,000
North Carolina-------553,028----------------------------73,566------------------------------------100,808-----------------------------------------------53,000
South Carolina-------274,563----------------------------15,684-------------------------------------40,373-----------------------------------------------34,000
Tennessee-----------756,836----------------------------77,522------------------------------------146,200-----------------------------------------------110,000
Texas----------------154,034---------------------------10,525--------------------------------------19,389
Virginia---------------894,800---------------------------77,005-------------------------------------109,775-----------------------------------------------59,000

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