Editing Carter Glass (section)

==Early life and education==

Carter Glass was born on January 4, 1858, in [[Lynchburg, Virginia]], the last child born to Robert Henry Glass and his first wife, the former Augusta Elizabeth Christian. His mother died on January 15, 1860, when Carter was only two years old, so his sister Nannie, ten years older (and Elizabeth's only daughter), became his surrogate mother. Carter, a slight boy, got his nickname, "Pluck", for his pugnacious willingness to stand up to bullies.{{sfn|Palmer|1938|pp=15{{en dash}}20}}

His father, [[Robert Henry Glass]], was Lynchburg's postmaster beginning in 1853, and in 1858 bought the ''Lynchburg Daily Republican'' newspaper (where he had worked since 1846). The city's other newspaper was the ''Lynchburg Daily Virginian'', then published by Joseph Button, who on June 23, 1860, (while R. H. Glass was out of town) died in a duel with Glass's editor at the time, George W. Hardwicke, over accusations that Glass used his postal office to disadvantage the rival paper.{{sfn|Palmer|1938|pp=14{{endash}}15}}

When the [[American Civil War]] (1861–1865) broke out, Lynchburg was pro-Union but also pro-slavery, since its economy depended on the manufacture of tobacco as well as slave-trading and the new railroads. R. H. Glass volunteered and joined the Virginia forces in 1861, and then joined the [[Confederate Army]], where he became a major on the staff of Brigadier General [[John B. Floyd]], a former [[Governor of Virginia]]. Major Glass ultimately remarried and had seven more children, including [[Meta Glass]] (president of [[Sweet Briar College]]) and Edward Christian Glass (Lynchburg's school superintendent for five decades).

In poverty-stricken Virginia during the post-War period, Glass received only a basic education at a private school run by one-legged former Confederate Henry L. Daviess.{{sfn|Palmer|1938|p=20}} However, his father kept an extensive library. He became an apprentice printer to his father (and Hardwicke) when he was 13 years old, and continued his education through reading [[Plato]], [[Edmund Burke]] and [[William Shakespeare]], among others who stimulated his lifelong intellectual interest. He thought that Shakespeare's works were not written by William Shakespeare, refusing to accept that their author could have risen from humble origins.{{sfn|Shaw|2020|p=313}} In 1876, Major Glass accepted an offer to edit the ''Petersburg News'', and Carter joined him as a journeyman printer. Not long afterward, Major Glass accepted the editorship of the ''Danville Post'', but Carter did not join him, instead returning to Lynchburg.{{sfn|Palmer|1938|pp=22{{en dash}}24}}