What is the connection between The Miracle Worker and allusions to Civil War battles and generals with the action of the play?I dont really...

William Gibson's play, The Miracle
Worker, has as its setting Tuscumbia, Alabama, in the 1880s, where Helen
Keller was born.  As one of the former Confederate States still reeling from the
exploitation of carpetbaggers and the invasive policies of Reconstruction, there was a
great deal of resentment felt by Southerners for any Northern methods. As a matter of
fact, Helen's father, Arthur H. Keller, was a captain for the Confederate Army, and his
mother was the second cousin of Robert E. Lee.  Captain Heller keeps the glory days of
the Confederacy alive in his home by discussing battles such as the Battle of Vicksburg
with his son James.

In addition, Captain Heller's glory as
a commander spills into his domestic life as he orders people in the household.  His
attitude toward Viney, the African-American maid who truly cares for Helen, is evidence
of the old Southern mentality.  When Annie Sullivan arrives, the Captain frowns upon her
methods, and, later compares her to General Grant of the North for stubbornness.  When
he later discusses Grant's drunkenness, Captain Keller's dislike for Northerners is
clearly apparent. 

The resentment of the South against the
North is one of the biases that Gibson addresses in his play, along with biases held
against the racial and disabled.