Introducing the emerging Southern middle class -- Advantage of a collegiate education: military education funding -- Your duty as citizens and sodiers: military education discipline and duty -- Honor as a man: manhood and the cultural values of the emerging Southern middle class -- Practical progress is the watchword: military education curriculum -- Professions and status: middle-class alumni stability and mobility -- Networks of military educators -- Classifying the middle class

1. Military education -- Southern States -- 19th century
2. Middle class -- Southern States -- 19th century
3. Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
4. Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century