Mr. Scott says Mr. Abbott was a fine writer. He was not as fine a writer as is Mr. Scott but I remembered something when I read that. A few years ago I email corresponded with another descendant, a Washington lawyer, of a soldier in the Pennsylvania 133rd. I expressed frustration at the lack of writing from the regiment and he, I have forgotten his name, emailed me back that he bet our great-granddaddies didn't even know how to write, they were farmers.

History is written by the literate.