[Colonel Kangaroo]

A good listing of some of the actions of the heavy-handed Confederate state. I wonder if somebody might try to defend those as temporary war measures- a justification they fail to apply to Lincoln's milder actions in the loyal states.

And that listing of Confederate national abuses does not even cover all the local abuses by low-level reb thugs and the general degenerate local feudalism in the land of the whip and chain.

[Non-Sequitur]

I wonder if somebody might try to defend those as temporary war measures...

Do you even have to ask?

[Non-Sequitur]

All those actions have been detailed in "Look Away: A History of the Confederate States of America" by William C. Davis.