You remember he got rich out of contracts for supplies furnished to the Confederate Government when it wasn't any too easy for the Confederate Government to pay and when he was in that Government himself.

You remember he got rich out of contracts for supplies furnished to the Confederate Government when it wasn't any too easy for the Confederate Government to pay and when he was in that Government himself.

The Confederate troops were concentrating at the same point, and there was immediate trouble brewing.

As the instrument of the Federal Constitution it will devolve on me for a stated period to execute the laws of the United States, to superintend their foreign and their confederate relations, to manage their revenue, to command their forces, and, by communications to the Legislature, to watch over and to promote their interests generally.

If the General Government is not permitted to tolerate the erection of a confederate State within the territory of one of the members of this Union against her consent, much less could it allow a foreign and independent government to establish itself there.

It is probable, too, that had not the Prince Consort intervened to soften the asperity of the Government's protest against the seizure of the Confederate emissaries on board the Trent, we should have had war with the Northern States.

In less than a week the Confederate garrison evacuated the arsenal in the neighboring town of Patesville, blew up the buildings, destroyed the ordnance and stores, and retreated across the Cape Fear River, burning the river bridge behind them,two acts of war afterwards unjustly attributed to General Sherman's army, which followed close upon the heels of the retreating Confederates.

It seemed to him but yesterday that he had escaped from the Confederate prison at Salisbury; that in an encounter with a guard he had received a wound in the head; that he had wandered on in the woods, keeping himself alive by means of wild berries, with now and then a piece of bread or a potato from a friendly negro.

To this concealed confederate, I must attach great blame, on account of the influence his station and superior learning gave him, not only over Mr. Lewis, but the colonists generally, and which should have been exerted for the good of all, in truth and honesty.

One by one, six other states followed; and they united to form a new government, called the Confederate States of America.

The Confederate States at once chose Jefferson Davis for their President, and declared themselves free and independent.

" The Confederate States demanded that the government should give up all the forts, arsenals, and public property within their limits.

And so, in April, the Confederate guns were turned upon Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, and the war was begun.

From that time the cause of the Confederate States was on the wane.

" Five weeks after that, on the 9th of April, 1865, the Confederate army surrendered, and the war was at an end.

She seemed to get the significance of Katie's laugh, however, for it was as to a confederate she whispered: "I'll get caught!" "Trust me," said Kate, and laughed from a new angle.

It would be unequal, to require South Carolina and Georgia, to confederate on such unequal terms.

He could not believe that the Southern States would refuse to confederate on the account apprehended; especially as the power was not likely to be immediately exercised by the General Government.

As the Southern States would not confederate without this clause, he asked, if gentlemen would rather dissolve the confederacy than to suffer this temporary inconvenience, admitting to it to be such? Virginia might continue the prohibition of such importation during the intermediate period, and would be benefitted by it, as a tax of ten dollars on each slave might be laid, of which she would receive a share.

You have good eyes, and a good memory as long as it lasts; you might make a secret examination of the Confederate lines.

"Where is the first Confederate post?" "You mean dem Southern sojers?" "Yes.

There could be little need for Confederate fortifications upon the other side of this unfordable stream.

"If that is not enough," said I, "you shall have more," showing her a one-dollar Confederate note.

For half a mile they advanced under an iron tempest such as Confederate troops never saw elsewhere than at Gettysburg- a tempest in which no army on earth could live.

Neither Confederate nor Federal was in sight.