. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . CAMP DENiaSON, KEAB CC>CI> THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT AT MONTGOMERY. BY E. BARNWELL RHETT (EDITOR OF THE CHARLESTON MERCURY, 1860-62). TWENTY-SIX years have passed since the delegates of six States of theSouth that had seceded from the Union met in a convention or Pro-visional Congress, at the Capitol, at Montgomery, Alabama. Twenty-oneyears have elapsed since the close of the war between the States of the Northand the eleven States of the South that entered the Confed
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . CAMP DENiaSON, KEAB CC>CI> THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT AT MONTGOMERY. BY E. BARNWELL RHETT (EDITOR OF THE CHARLESTON MERCURY, 1860-62). TWENTY-SIX years have passed since the delegates of six States of theSouth that had seceded from the Union met in a convention or Pro-visional Congress, at the Capitol, at Montgomery, Alabama. Twenty-oneyears have elapsed since the close of the war between the States of the Northand the eleven States of the South that entered the Confederate Govern-ment then and there organized. Most of the men who participated in thedeliberations of that convention are dead, and the few now left will beforelong be laid away. Of the debates of that body there is no recoixl, and theproceedings in secret session have never been pul^lished. In Washingtonthe proceedings of the Congress of the United States were open, and atthe North there was an intelligent, well-informed, powerful public opinionthroLighout the war. Not so at the South. Secret sessions were commencedat Montgomery, and at Richmond al
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