[Non-Sequitur]

...and Mark Neely's partisan icepick job..

Before he wrote "Southern Rights", Mark Neeley took a long, hard look at the Lincoln administration in "The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties" and won a Pulitzer for it. Your problem with Neely is that you can't stand having the Davis regime examined with the same standards you insist on for the Lincoln administration.

[lentulusgracchus]

Neely homered for Lincoln, and did an icepick job on the Confederacy.