From my above link on Brown:
the hallmark of his wartime administration was his resistance to the authority of the central Confederate government, a policy that was soon copied by some other Confederate governors and that helped to undermine the overall war effort. Governor Brown's opposition surfaced in many fields. He opposed the army's impressments of goods and especially slave laborers. He frustrated Confederate efforts to seize the Western and Atlantic Railroad and to impose occasional martial law. He bitterly criticized Confederate tax and blockade-running policies.
Brown was more effective against the Confederacy's war effort than Vallandigham was against the Union war effort.
I have to be away from the threads for a while. We are going to have 50 guests in our house in a little while. Ciao.
Brown was a public official, Vallandigham a private citizen, albeit quite famous.
Brown's personal efforts as Georgia's governor contributed far more to the Confederate war effort than Vallandigham possibly could.
Brown simply disagreed on strategy and tactics with Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
We today consider Brown wrong-headed, and Davis as representing the only viable path to victory.
But at the time Brown's efforts were very popular with his own voters, and not considered necessarily detrimental to the Confederates' overall war effort.
By contrast, Vallandigham contributed nothing and criticized much in the Union war effort.
Bottom line: Vallandigham broke the law, Brown never did.
Can you cite a case of actual Confederate law-breakers dealth with by Confederate authorities more humanely than Vallandigham in the North?