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That was certainly a challenge, but what part of the Confederacy would you suggest they not defend? How would Davis explain to the governor or congressmen from some state(s) that, sorry, you're just outside the perimeter that we feel we can reasonably defend? Oh, and by the way, we still want you to contribute troops and treasure to the cause.
That was precisely the problem. Rather than impose its national will over the individual states, Davis was often forced to concede to governors such as Joe Brown in Georgia who were adamant that their state and coastlines be defended. Although that problem remained throughout the entire struggle, the Confederacy did shift to (among other methods), a strategy that was based on spatially concentrating far-flung forces, as was the case at Shiloh.