[Albion Tourgée] remarked ironically that “there does not appear to have been any Confederate infantry, so far as our fiction is concerned.”  It was a mythic necessity for all to be cavalry officer in the land of Chivalry. (p.28)

Liston Pope, author of Millhands and Preachers and sometime Dean of the Yale Divinity School, received his early education in the schools of his native North Carolina.  While discussing the history texts which he used there in the 1920s, he remarked wryly to the author of this present study: “I could never understand how our Confederate troops could have won every battle in the War so decisively and then have lost the war itself.”  (p.113)