... courts politics American law reporting legal education Civil War Confederate states Thomas B. Monroe, Reports of Cases at Common Law and in Equity, Argued and Decided in the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky [1824–1828], 7 vols. (Frankfort: Amos Kendall & Co...

...This chapter analyzes how De Bow viewed the American Civil War. As a leading secessionist he hoped for an important job in the new government of the Confederate States of America. He became an agent for the Produce Loan Office, which attempted to raise money for the southern war effort. His new job...

... states declared their secession from the U.S. and formed the Confederate States of America. These events wreaked havoc upon the lives of thousands of southern merchants and their families because the war changed business patterns, threatened the safety of home and called men and merchants to become...

...In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared that as president he would “have no lawful right” to interfere with the institution of slavery. Yet less than two years later, he issued a proclamation intended to free all slaves throughout the Confederate states. When critics challenged...