Historyprof
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I have always wondered if the percentages of literate northern soldiers was based on the availability of schools and not whether they were actually literate. My wife had a gr. gr. uncle from Belmont Co. Ohio whose pension forms were signed with an x and I had a cousin of a gr. gr. grandparent, also from Ohio, who couldn't sign his own name.Percentage wise you might be correct but in terms of total numbers the CSA would have had many more individuals who were illiterate.
Just a thought.