| First of all, good job. Since questions don't need to be answered in order, you can just make "red" the solitary answer to one question, "blue" to another one, and "white" to the third. Someone who types "red" may not see "red" in the space he or she expected, but that doesn't matter if you're not requiring a specific sequence of answers. I just read a whole book about Confederate politics last year ("The Confederate Republic") and I have a bookmark for the Journals of the Confederate Congress (which I've looked at many times) but I'd never remember (if I ever saw) Speaker Bocock; that's just an observation, not a criticism. (Perhaps you could add a line for the president pro tempore of the Confederate Senate, since the Senators' names are more likely to be familiar). ¶ If you have the space and desire, you might add some questions about Joe Johnston and the last major C.S. army to surrender, in May 1865. ¶ The question of how many states seceded and adhered to the Confederacy (and thus who was the "last" to secede) can be a cause for endless wrangling. Breakaway conventions in Confederate-held parts of both Kentucky and Missouri (at Neosho) voted to leave the Union and join the C.S.A., but those conventions didn't, according to the histories I've read, represent the feelings of a majority of those states' citizens. The later Confederate flags bore 13 stars, and both Kentucky and Missouri had Senators and Representatives in the Confederate Congress; their electors also participated in the second Presidential election of November 1861. (At the same time, of course, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia continued to participate in the U.S. Congress and in the U.S. presidential election of 1864. Kentucky was counted for Jefferson Davis in 1861 and Geo. McClellan in 1864; Missouri for Davis & Lincoln.) ¶ Other topics you might possibly consider are the Confederate territories (which sent delegates to the Congress) and Confederate ambassadors: Mason & Slidell were sent to Paris & London without winning recognition; |
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