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Re: Cooperation In the Confedereny
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Governors Brown of Georgia and Vance of North Carolina were two of the most independent minded of the Confederate State governors. There are several documented instances of both Governors refusing to ship men and materials to the centeral Confederate government. Most states who suceeded from the U.S. had the idea of a very weak central government and a very strong state government within the Confederency. A weak central government was likely one of the contributing reasons that the Confederate's were finally defeated.

Huh, yeah...when General Stoneman raided Salisbury NC,near wars end, he destroyed the following war material

10,000 stand of arms
1,000,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition
10,ooo rounds of artillery ammunition
6,000 pounds of gunpowder
10,000 bushels of corn
75,ooo uniforms
250,000 blankets (fine English wool)
6,000 pounds of bacon
100,000 pounds of salt
27,000 pounds of rice
10,000 pounds of saltpeter
50,000 bushels of wheat
80 barrels of turpentine
$15 million in Confederate currency.

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