ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the wartime correspondence of five Texas editors to uncover how their writing portrayed the ideal Confederate soldier as an embodiment of the Southern values of masculinity, duty, and honor. It demonstrates how these editors justified the sacrifices of soldiers as morale and enlistments declined. Often published word-for-word, this correspondence provided editors-at-war broad latitude not only in telling their own stories but also in shaping the Southern reading public's perception of Union and Confederate soldiers.
