suzenatale
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- May 25, 2013
"By early 1864, members of the Confederate Congress had had enough. Despite their high positions in the government, for years they had suffered constant humiliation at the hands of provost marshals, military guards and passport clerks who forced them to comply with the regulations of a unique, and frustrating, feature of the Confederacy: the domestic passport system, a mechanism of population control they had never actually approved. Now they were demanding to know who had established this system in the first place, and under what authority. The answer revealed much about the nature of the Confederacy, a paradox that was, at the same time, a weak political entity and an oppressive slavocracy...."
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