That is true. But what my point to Frank was is that State Troops, Militia and Home Guards, were exempted from Confederate service, in accordance to the Confederate Conscription Laws. Therefore it was within the perview of the State Governors to refuse to send these troops out of their jurisdiction.

NOW..., one place where the Governor did cross swords with the Central Military Government is the transferring of troops that were in Confederate Service.

The example that I am thinking about was Gen. Albert Johnston ordering Gen. Earl Van Dorn to transfer his entire Army of the West (Arkansas and Missouri) east of the Mississippi to join with his (Johnston's) Army to counter Grant at Shiloh. As we know this all didn't quite work out. But, what it did do was the Confederate Military effectively abandoned the states of Arkansas, and Missouri to the Union leavin behind only a few companyies of state militia cavlry and less than 1,000 un armed untrain raw recuits against 12,000 veteran union soldier under Samuel Curtis in North Arkansas.

This infuriated the Governor of Arkansas, Henry M. Rector, who tell Richmond that if his State was not going to be defended, then he would seceed from the Confederacy, declare the State of Arkansas as a neutral state and recall the 18 regiments and batteries of Arkansas Troops, then with Johnston/Beauregard's army in Confederate service, back home for the States defence against whoever entered its borders.

For the remainder of the war the Confederate War Department repeatedly tryed to get the Trans-mississippi commanders and the Governors from Arkansas, Texas and Missouri to send more troops east to Tennessee and Virginia. But those Governors stedfastly refused to do so after rebuilding a Confederate Army in the Trans-Mississippi after Van Dorn abandoned them as he did. The only Trans-Mississippi troops that went east after that incident were those who were captured at Arkansas Post and exchanged at City Point, Virginia.