The Confederate
First Reader
Containing
Selections of Prose and Poetry
As Reading Exercises
For the Younger Children
In the 
Schools and Families
Of the Confederate States
By G. L. Bidgood, Richmond, VA. 1864
120 pages, Searchable


- Bonus – 
The Confederate Spelling Book
With Reading Lessons For the Young
Adapted to the use of Schools
Or For Private Instruction
By G. L. Bidgood, Richmond, VA. 1865
161 pages, Illustrated, Searchable


- Bonus – 
The Geographical Reader
For the Dixie Children
By Miranda B. Moore, 1864
47 pages, Searchable
 
- Bonus – 
The Confederate Primer
Fourth Edition
By G. L. Bidgood, Richmond, VA. 1864
32 pages, Illustrated, Searchable

- Bonus – 
Proceedings of the 
Convention of Teachers
In the Confederate States
Columbia, South Carolina
April 28, 1863
By Burke, Boykin & Co., Macon, GA. 1863
19 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
 
 
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At
the secession of the Southern states in the early months of 1861, the
production of textbooks for the Confederacy’s schools was both a practical and
a patriotic necessity. Until civil war came, Southern schools were dependent
for textbooks on the output of Northern publishers. Hostilities made further
trade impossible. 

Available
textbooks, although in short supply, suffered from a serious defect; they were,
in Southern eyes, blighted by Yankee biases and inaccuracies. During the course
of the conflict, Southerners responded to pleas for “home edited and printed school
books.” Primers, spellers, readers, arithmetics, English grammars, foreign
language books, and geographies were produced. Some were original works; others
were “Southern” versions of popular pre-war books by Northern authors. A few
titles were imported from England.

 
 
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