The recent publication of an American History text for use in Virginia public schools has been determined to be inaccurate. The book claimed that there were Black Confederate military units fighting for the south in the Civil War. A photo accompanying the article was photo-edited to show a Confederate officer in charge of a unit of black soldiers who were in reality a unit of Louisiana militia enlisted by the Union forces in occupation of New Orleans. After this incident became public historians reviewed the text and found "more errors, including inaccurate dates and spelling and punctuation errors". The book was printed by Five Ponds Press and was entitled Virginia; Past and Present and Our America to 1865. The publisher has promised to replace the books without cost; they also said they would "replace page 122 in the 2011 edition of the textbook". (Unclear as to what they are doing to correct the error). The book publisher stated that they "...tailored our textbooks to meet the needs of the Virginia Standards of Learning...". (Maybe the issue here is not the publisher but the state's need for its version of history).
(Source: "Publisher says it will replace error-pocked texts for free" by Elisabeth Hulette of The Virginian Pilot on 1/12/11).
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