...operations, offensive and defensive, of said State, in the impending conflict with the United States, shall be under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States upon the same hasis, principles and footing as if said State .were now and during the interval, a member...

...operations, offensive and defensive of said State, in the impending conflict with the United States, shall he under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States, upon the same hasis, principles and footing, as if said State were now, and during the interval a member...

...operations, offensive and defensive, of said State, in the impending conflict with the United States, shall be under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States upon the same basis, principles and footing as if said State were now and during the interval, a member...

...operations, offensive and defensive, of said State in the impending conflict with the United States shall be under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States upon the same basis, principles, and footing as if said State were now and during the interval a member...

...war" and the whole " military operations, offensive and defensive, of the said State," were placed " under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States," was, of course, a faroe." The network of railroads checkering the State, and especially the great line...

...operations, offensive and defensive, of said State, in the impending conflict with the United States, shall be under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States, upon the same basis, principles, and footing, as if said State were now and during the interval a member...

...operations, offensive and defensive, of said State, in the impending conflict with the United States, shall be under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States, upon the same basis. Principles, and footing, as if said State were now and uring the interval a member...

...war" and the whole " military operations, offensive and defensive, of the said State," were placed " under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States," was, of course, a farce.15 The network of railroads checkering the State, and especially the great...

...be perfected, "the whole military force and military- operations, offensive and defensive, of said Commonwealth, in the impending conflict with the United...should be under the chief control and direction of Jefferson Davis. So eager were the Virginia conspirators to "perfect the Union," that on the following...

...popular vote on the question of secession, " military operations, offensive and defensive, in Virginia, should be under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States," Confederate troops, from South Carolina and the States of the Gulf, were rapidly thrown forward into...