NELSON SHEPHARD
His perception that the loss of the war for the South was God’s retribution for Southern Slavery and treason was very common in the North. The young man was shocked at the difference between the educational levels of he and his Michigan comrades vis a vis their Southern counterparts. The Southern slave-centered economy didn’t provide a very good education, even for its own white citizens. 150 years after the Civil War, the South was generally behind the rest of the country in average educational.achievement.
Born: ~1843 Enlisted in the 26th Michigan Volunteer Regiment at the age of 18 in the Summer of 1862 Shepherd was captured by the Confederates and died of malnutrition and exposure aloha with thousands of other prisoners of war on December 18, 1864> He was 21 at the time.
