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To: henkster
Legislature dissolved by the Federal military. Things are bad in our country, but we haven’t gone that far...

I just read in a biography of Jefferson Davis that, as Secretary of War, he reprimanded Sumner for the action. As a cabinet official Davis seems to have done a fairly decent job. Not counting his really juvenile feud with Winfield Scott.

43 posted on 07/12/2016 2:25:07 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Whatever else we think of Davis for his role as POTCUSA, I generally looked at him as competent. Not everyone in this era was. During the war, he kept Braxton Bragg around far too long and under utilized Joe Johnston, but it’s not like Lincoln never had an incompetent general.


44 posted on 07/12/2016 3:54:23 PM PDT by henkster (No tagline for me, thank you.)
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