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To: RegulatorCountry

Probably correct in that assessment. They didn’t even have time to assemble a Supreme Court in accordance with the Confederate Constitution.


309 posted on 07/02/2017 3:31:58 AM PDT by Bull Snipe (t)
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To: Bull Snipe

They did manage to resist suspending writ of habeas corpus and a functional court system was maintained throughout the war, at least here in my home state of North Carolina it was. NC was an interesting case, striving very hard to maintain independence from Richmond as much as possible but providing more soldiers and materiel to the war effort than any other state. Slighted in positions of command, it was the old vale of humility between two mountains of conceit thing, NC was looked down upon. It had been sort of wild and comparatively undeveloped. Gov. Vance walked a tightrope quite well, the war was popular in the planter east, unpopular in the mountainous west and the central Piedmont was vacillating to the point of dubious at times. He kept them all satisfied to the point of winning reelection in the middle of the war.


312 posted on 07/02/2017 4:12:32 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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