The object of this work has been from historical data to show that the Southern States had rightfully the power to withdraw from a Union into which they had, as sovereign communities, voluntarily entered.
Oldiees Publishing, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, William Seward, John Breckinridge, William Gist, James Buchanan, Jefferson Davis, Robert Anderson, Robert Toombs, Pierre Beauregard, Robert E. Lee, Winfield Scott, Irvin McDowell, Rose O’Neal Greenhow, George McClellan, Ulysses Grant, David Farragut, Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart, Henry Halleck, John Pope, Fitz John Porter & Edwin Stanton
