they sit down in jefferson davis ' dining room and eat the meal that was prepared for jefferson davis. dave two -- day two. abraham lincoln knows the end is near. grant has been giving him hence -- hints. when he gets word at city point that richmond has fallen lincoln said he had been dreaming a horrid dream for four years another nightmare is gone. the next day, he goes on a ship up river to richmond. he takes his son with him. it is his 12th birthday, but it's a very small contingent that arrive in richmond. lincoln arrives early. weitzel gets word the president is coming but not for several hours. they made better time than expected, and when lincoln arrives, he is greeted by slaves who see lincoln coming up river. word begins to spread, and they gathered to greet the liberator. little tad, 12 years old, always wears a miniature union uniform in the pictures you see of him. always dressed like a miniature soldier. no official greeting. lincoln has 12 bodyguards, 12 sailors admiral porter brought along with him. as he walks through the streets he is greeted again by the slaves. gre

they never brought a formal indictment against jefferson davis. while in prison, he became an early folk hero of the lost cause. finally, he was released in the spring of 1867 because they had not brought any formal indictments, and they couldn't hold him any longer. his bail was purchased by welding northerners, horace greeley. once you release jefferson davis from jail in the spring of 1867, there is nowhere else to go. alexander stephens, the vice president, was also arrested and imprisoned for a short time in charlestown, massachusetts. he was released by the end of the summer of 1865. we will never know. most civil war's have ended in a much bloodier way. if a side loses as profoundly as the confederacy did, they're usually have been retributions and even executions. that we did not do that sets up to a certain extent some elements of the lost cause tradition. these leaders live to write about it. host: we are seeing the muskets and rifles stacked, and the confederate flag, the banners are being unfurled. the use of the confederate flag on a

she was a slaved and jefferson davis' white house. >> i didn't write about jefferson davis. >> she spiedon them. >> i remember reading that. and her descendents live in richmond. >> thank you. oh is that right? >> congratulations. i'm going to the historical society. the cover should have never dealt with it. i said this is a civil war book. [laughter] >> and i'm a member there. it's wonderful. >> i know, it's terrific. >> i'm looking at here cast of characters. >> i think it's smart. >> one of the den couples said cokie roberts party is in washington. [laughter] >> whose book is it? is this for you? >> yes. >> you forget who your best friends are. [inaudible] it's great so they asked me to do it. >> how nice. that's terrific. that's great. thank you. hi. you all found each other. [laughter] the team. the excellent team. is this to you and alice? >> to me and alice, that would be great. >> okay. >> thank you. [applause] >> i wrote this down because i have a little story but i will get to in a second. on behalf of james is the present of abc news and everyone with our group we are honored

jefferson davis announced that they would be enslaved. somewhere, not a not -- soldiers captured were at risk of execution. under the law against insurrection they were risking being re-and slaved. it was not just black soldiers that face this. when his army invaded pennsylvania in the gettysburg campaign they sent back several score people into virginia trying to re-enslave them into the labor force of virginia. by and large, black folk in uniform or not were treated as part of the enslaved population by the confederate army. by the very end of the war as many out there will know, in desperation the confederacy in the congress of to president davis decided that perhaps they would try to recruit some former slaves into the confederate army and they did indeed recruit one small unit in richmond by late march in 1865. the idea was to do what many societies had done without -- throughout history, which was to arms slaves and put them in the army. which would have violated the very reason of the confederacy to exist. vast numbers of white sou

general lee just talked about, which was ve surrendering before president rhaps he jefferson, jefferson davisdid so. some peoplet say perhaps he should have waited for hi ste commander in chief to surrender, that perhaps he took that step tly, earlier than he should have.ever, is i know that his men were suffering greatly. however, looking back on it now, is he still convinced that it was the right decision in. y >> yes,it absolutely.deci it was thesi right decision.and i was a commander of the army ief. and i was also commander in chief. and there was no way to communicate with general davis. i made the decision and it was made the rightth decision. >> general grant, you made the decision to allow your rations, the union rations to be distributed to union troops but your own troops were fairly we starved from the chase as well. >> they were hungry because we had been on the run for several days in pursuit of the army of northern virginia. actually u gave general lee the provisions that i had kept him from getting. >> it muz my rations. gn >> it was his rations that i gave him. i was magnanim

[laughter] [inaudible conversations] she was in a jefferson davis and white house.before she spied on them she did -- >> i remember reading about it, yes. >> and her descendents live in richmond. >> is that right? >> congratulations. >> thank you. i said this is a civil war book. >> and i'm a member there. spent i know it's worth it. >> i'm looking at your cast of characters, because people get too many -- >> actually the editor insist on that and i think it's smart. >> [inaudible conversations] >> how nice. that's terrific. that's a great. thank you. hi. you all found each other. the team, the excellent team. good to see you. >> thank you. i get to in a second. on behalf of the president of abc news and everyone with our group and we are honored to be part of this great evening celebrate cookies latest work of art. we are especially proud to have cokie as well with us to the next election cycle which will be very exciting. [applause] cokie, reporting the analysis, history, we could not live without you. it's going to be very exciting time. this is my story. in my f

her alleged murderer seen on camera entering the grocery store on jefferson davis highway, then fleeing on february 21, 2014. police tell us it's the only murder case in the county not solved for the last year and one that continues to haunt both the family and community. >> well, i hope people see the billboard and call the number and try to find out who did this. >> as far as what i know, they didn't take anything but her life. and these are the type of people we really, really need to get off the streets. >> reporter: police tell me the billboard will stay up through the end of may. stephanie ramirez, wusa 9news. >> the reward is now $21,000. the young victim leaves a father, now a 2-year-old daughter. a former coworker of the slain mother talked to stephanie ramirez about the fear of happening this again if suspects are not caught. we'll have that story at 11:00. >>> you know who is getting a home-cooked meal tonight? after three weeks of rescuing people from the rubble in nepal, virginia task force 1 is . >>> grave concern and fear have gripped an upscale dc neighborhood where a po

general lee just talked about, which was ve surrendering before president rhaps he jefferson, jefferson davisdid so. some peoplet say perhaps he should have waited for hi ste commander in chief to surrender, that perhaps he took that step tly, earlier than he should have.ever, is i know that his men were suffering greatly. however, looking back on it now, is he still convinced that it was the right decision in. y >> yes,it absolutely.deci it was thesi right decision.and i was a commander of the army ief. and i was also commander in chief. and there was no way to communicate with general davis. i made the decision and it was made the rightth decision. >> general grant, you made the decision to allow your rations, the union rations to be distributed to union troops but your own troops were fairly we starved from the chase as well. >> they were hungry because we had been on the run for several days in pursuit of the army of northern virginia. actually u gave general lee the provisions that i had kept him from getting. >> it muz my rations. gn >> it was his rations that i gave him. i was magnanim

they were hoping to prove the confederacy, particularly jefferson davis, was behind it.ere unable to do this. they were hoping to find that someone other than a deranged 26-year-old actor did this. when ultimately that did not work, just as after the kennedy assassination, worn commission -- the warren commission was commissioned. in 1867 the house of representatives convened a special assassination committee to see of the assassination trial had been correct, and came to the conclusion it had. when we discuss the kennedy assassination in three weeks, we will find it was the warren commission and in the house commission. same thing here. four people were sentenced to be hanged. mary surratt, george powell david harold, and -- david herold, and atzerodt. . dr. mudd escapes hanging. the hanging took place in the navy yard. i believe it was the first execution in the united states that was photographed. here they are actually hanging. it is a terribly hot day and mary surratt was allowed to have a priest and someone held an umbrella over her beforehand. mary surratt -- robe

grant's troop, jefferson davis is in flight south determined to keep the war going. a few days later, general robert e. lee surrenders commencing the beginning of the end. those two events but april 9 booth is waiting for the right opportunity to present itself with lincoln. >> [indiscernible] eric martin: do i believe mary surratt deserved to be hung? i think she got a bad rap. i thought the movie "the conspirator" was good. i'm skeptical she had direct knowledge of booth's plan to assassinate. whereas the other three knew they met with booth that night. i think she was set up and booth planned things in such a way that if it failed, she would get implicated too and bring her down and that the evidence is largely circumstantial. i think it is problematic that she knew that afternoon that this was going down. although we will never know for sure. [applause] eric martin: thanks for coming. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accu

like jefferson davis and robert e lee. most importantly, what would happen to the 4 million formerly enslaved people in the south? finding answers to these questions was complicated by the fact that the civil war did not end with a peace treaty. there was no treaty signing on the deck of a battleship like at the end of world war ii. although lee surrendered at appomattox, granted not bargain over the conflict. grant simply told lee his men could stack their arms and go home. president lincoln, and most members of the republican party, had it involves viewing the war from saving the popular government to a war that would end slavery and give the nation as lincoln said famously, a new birth of freedom. in the spring of 1865, lincoln is just getting his reconstruction act together and what we know comes from things he says in cabinet meetings and a speech he gives at the white house after lee's surrender. at appomattox, but it is fragmentary. here is essentially what we know lincoln was planning. an army would remain in the s

all of this happening during a traffic stop on jefferson davis highway. we see in this police body cam video the first two officers on the scene of the may 4th traffic stop with their guns pointed at the driver of a hyundai. sergeant crystal hill yells at 34-year-old david washington of frez ricksburg to get out of the car. >> put your hands in the air right now! put them in the air! >> reporter: but he doesn't respond. minutes later, a third officer sean jergens, arrives. >> get out of the car. >> reporter: you can see officer jergens quickly using his stun gun on the man. but it didn't make proper connection. and then theer pepper-sprays him before they are able to get him out of the car. washington could be heard moan ing ing. officers handcuffed washington. >> you understand why you had to get sprayed? you weren't listening to us. i have an ambulance coming to help you. i need to know what's wrong with you. >> reporter: then got a medical attention for the effect of -- to remove the taser prongs attached to his skin. now, in this statement fredericksb

jefferson davis highway that is all lanes closed as a result of an accident. we'll have an update in about ten minutes. >>> a major break in the case of the mansion murders. police this morning have their man. daron wint, 34 years old, arrested and behind bars this morning charged with first- degree murder in that quadruple murder and torture of the savopoulos family and their housekeeper. he was arrested here last night around 11:00 at the intersection of 10th and rhode island avenue northeast. let's take a look at the scene of the arrest that happened last night. the 34-year-old was traveling with relatives, cornered on rhode island avenue after members of the fugitive task force followed a box truck and a white sedan into the city from a howard johnson motel in college park. wint charged with first-degree murder while armed for the quadruple murder of the savopoulos family and their house keep near their northwest d.c. mansion before extorting $40,000 from his former employer. that's right, wint worked as a welder for savvas savopoulos and his iron works co

prince william is shut down at jefferson davis. southbound being pushed on to prince william parkway to get folks around that crash. taking a look now at 95 in virginia, southbound here through dale city. we are quite slow. 12 mile per hour at this point this morning. the right lane it sounds like is blocked here. this is a live picture, looks better than it did earlier here. but still quite slow this morning. 95 southbound right now is where the first 4 traffic tracker is heading. al going to get into some of the backups and show us what's really happening there. live here this morning, a wide look at things overall the beltway looking good. moving along nicely as we hit this memorial day weekend. >> thank you. back to the breaking news now. the manhunt is over for the man suspected of killing a northwest d.c. family and their housekeeper. this is new video where d.c. police arrested daron wint during a traffic stop in northeast. that search took police in two states and this morning we're learning about a hotel connection in mary

closed at route 1, jefferson davis highway. northbound route 1 is still open. we'll be tweet more about that. d.c. 295 blocked at the off ramp to nannie helen burroughs. that's going to pose a problem. 3 1/2 backups to 95 south through dale city. we have the first 4 traffic tracker on the way right here a live picture of the problem in dale city. right now the traffic tracker has not hit the issue yet. 270 into and out of town no problems there. inbound, one right lane is blocked. back in ten minutes with more. >> melissa, thank you. >>> a blast so hard neighbors thought a meteor hit the earth. what sent giant rocks through several windows in loudoun county. >>> here comes the bride. here future husband, the man who once served jail time for his relationship with her. well what narrator: puerto rico's healthcare system is on life support, putting three and a half million puerto ricans at risk. it's an outrage. puerto ricans are us citizens and pay the same medicare taxes, but receive only half the federal healthcare funding as the other 50 states. the headlines

the reports say she was shot execution style in what used to be the grocery and jewelry off of jefferson davis highway in woodbridge, virginia. it has a new name now and possibly new owners, but no one has forgotten what happened. >> they didn't even take anything, just her life, and these are the type of people that we really, really need to get off the street. >> it is very disturbing, not just for me but for the family as well. it shows me there hasn't been any justice. >> reporter: prince william county justice working on just that and recently posted this billboard offering a 21,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. the new sign is sitting over this busy stretch of u.s. 1 about a mile down from where this crime happened. [speaking spanish ] >> reporter: always taking care of her baby and work instead of hanging out in the streets and clubs how she remembers the young mother. >> we're always concerned. >> reporter: she works at the hair salon next door. >> it is something that we're all going to have to pitch in together as community. we all need to keep our eye out. and if

their daughter married the young jefferson davis. he fought with taylor in mexico.nfortunately, their daughter died after only three months of marriage. later, in the white house, the taylor's became quite close with jefferson davis and his second wife. she was very close to the first lady. the first lady let her daughter do a lot of the entertaining. it was such a brief amount of time, really. that they were in office. professor finkelman: he was inaugurated in march and elected in november of 1848. taylor dies in july of 1850. there is essentially a 15 month. when they were -- there is essentially a 15 month period when they were in office. she didn't want to be there. she retreated to the upstairs. she came from a political family. one of her aunts was married to the future governor of maryland. one of her cousins was married to says in her -- to a senator in maryland. she came from a very wealthy family of maryland planters. she grew up in the washington dc and northern virginia areas. one of her playmates was nelly custis, the granddaughter of martha washington

jefferson davis and his wife writes home and says that dirty speculator and trickster broken with the first wife's money bison allergan well read women because she is poor and her father is proud. fortunately washington is getting a new water system says sparing his wife's back therese, douglas may wash it little off of her. his acquaintance will build larger rooms with more perfect ventilation. the men don't the stephen douglas bank. so he still defeated a couple years later for the senate. she turns out to be one of the most delightful women and the letters are quite wonderful. she said presently throughout the war even after the state of mississippi sissy had and became president of the confederacy. from the beginning she wrote that there is no way this would work. she just did an analysis. we don't have enough manufacturing, enough for. while she went to richmond. the she stayed friendly in the north particularly who we all know from montgomery blair and all of that. he was in lincoln's cabin in of course. her father come of francis preston blair was a lincoln confidant and adviso

the leadership of the confederacy, jefferson davis does not like to issue lots of public proclamations of fast days and thanksgiving. but that runs entirely against the political culture. for confederates, the lost cause is mostly a secular argument. meant to indict the yankees for being the perfidious people they are, taking those meant julep cavaliers under their magnolia trees on the back porch. gone with the wind in other words. gone what the wind is not have a lot of god in it. that tells us a good deal about the lost cause. lincoln's premonition. lincoln had lots of premonitions. he had a superstitious streak to him. he came from the backwoods of kentucky and indiana. he has folk religion attaching to him. he believed when his son was bitten by a dog he was going to take care to indiana to a folk practitioner with a mad stone it was supposed to drop poison out of the wound. sometimes he will display this superstitious importance of dreams that he has. he dreams cc a funeral in the white house, being on the deck of a ship headed toward a distant shore. it is unusual that he missed

unanimously in favor of building a new potomac metro station near the existing shopping center on jefferson daviste clears the way for the next step in the design process. the mayor says the $268 million project would create 26,000 jobs along with new housing, office and retail space. the station is expected to open in late 2018 or early 2019. amelia? >> here's future weather at 2:00 p.m. tracking light showers in the d.c. metro area southern maryland parts of virginia including prince william. most of the rain is east of i-95. by 6:00 p.m. most of us will dry out and cloudy skies for the later evening hours. . tomorrow complete 180. breezy high of 77 sunshine humidity remains low for saturday and sunday. 74 saturday 82 sunday. for memorial day maybe an isolated storm, otherwise hot, humid, a high around 90. next time you see me i'll let you know how long our highs will stay in the 90s after named. >> thank you, amelia. parents in loudon county none too pleased and voicing their concerns about artificial turf. they started a petition on change.org to ban tire rubber from county fields. it gained

voted in favor of building the new potomac yard metro close to the existing shopping center on jefferson davis highway. >>> breaking news this morning in the quadruple murder in the d.c. mansion. police have a suspect. they're looking for daron wint. they believe he's on the run at this hour. >>> grab an umbrella before you head out the door. a broad area of rain that stretches much of the eastern seaboard from new england all the way down to the carolinas is right in our metro area now. a wet day on the way. melissa? two slowest spots, 95 northbound at 123, a crash there. 66 inbound after 50. typical volume. hopefully folks are getting out of town early for the weekend. take me with you. >> me too. >> we're not done yet. >> i'm here all weekend. >> that is the broadcast this morning. "today" show is coming your way >> yeah, don't forget that umbrella, everybody. >> make it a great thursday, everybod . >>> good morning. overnight, wanted this is the man police have identified in that home invasion murder in washington, d.c. this morning the major break in the calls. dna from the pizza crust fo

. >>> police in prince william county hope this new billboard on jefferson davis highway helps bringo justice. last february three men walked into the platanios grocery in woodbridge and shot and killed glenda marisol romero. they left without taking money, but if you have information that leads to an arrest, you could be eligible for a reward. >>> we told you about this property as a venue for wedding and concerts, but the loud noise resulted in dozens of complaints from neighbors. today a judge ordered jeffries to knock it out inform he gets a business license. he has -- it off until he gets a business license. he has to pay $8,000 in fines. >>> today on the capitol lawn president obama offered his condolences and gratitude to families at the national peace officer service. >> we hold them up always heroes bouts that's -- as heroes because that's what they are. it takes a special kind of courage to be a peace officer, to be the 1 people turn to in their most desperate moments, be willing to run into a dangerous situation when everybody else is running the other way. >> the presiden

jefferson davis' old senate seat in mississippi would be held by hiram rebels, and african-american. african-americans on juries and in a number of southern cities they integrated the police force. including new orleans with a -- where they also integrated the detective bureau. african-american effectives would be solving some of the high-profile crimes in 1870, which is the theme of my new book. "the new orleans kidnapping case." it profiles one such detective. here was a much more expansive meaning for the civil war. the union reunited, slavery ended, political representation for african-american men, and state laws like the black codes permanently abolished. but radical reconstruction, as it was called, was a fragile revolution. in many states, the republican led by racial state government survived only with the support of federal troops. across the south, reactionary violence by paramilitary groups like the knights of the white camellia, the white leagues, and the ku klux klan, presage what might happen on a massive scale and federal soldiers went on. one of the military patrolli

jefferson davis issued 10. they were having a competition there. a lincoln's case, it gives rise to this visionary rhetoric, the house divided, which is from the bible. the gettysburg address, "one nation under god." the second inaugural address has 10 mentions of god, three biblical citations. in a way, a lot of his rhetoric is saturated in religion, even though again, he was not a conventional member of any church. it reminds me of what whitman who said, mind is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths. i reject any organized religion, but have such deep faith. that is the way i think of lincoln. he also met regularly with church leaders, and he bred a sort of ecumenical spirit, was close to jewish people catholics, many kinds of protestants, and had a very strong race, religious base, among churches, and many different kinds of churches in the north. i suppose you could even say that he waged his own holy war, particularly as the war went on. some say that he had the higher law, created his own law because he canceled habeas corpus at one

could stand stephen douglas, and he was considerably older and had a couple -- so varina davis jefferson davis is right -- wife by some the dirty speculative party trickster with his first wife's money buys an elegant well bred woman because she is poor and her father is proud. and varina says fortunately washington is getting a new water system so sparing his wife's olfactory system douglas mayor walsh a little off upper. if they don't is a queens will build larger rooms with more perfect ventilation. now you know the men don't write the stephen douglas bank. so he still defeated lincoln a couple years later for the senate but she turns out to be one of the most delightful women, and her letters are quite wonderful. she stayed friendly throughout the war, even after this date of mississippi secede and he became president of the confederacy. should the confederacy. she actually knew from the beginning, she wrote to her mother, there was no way this was going to work. she just did an analysis. we don't have enough manufacturing, don't have enough railroads we can't win this war. but she said i

the confederacy's purpose had d m already disappeared with richmond fallen, jefferson davis t fleeinginto the southern night, with sherman marching near the southern spring, with the confederate army scattered and powerless. and despite later fantasies of guerrilla fighting, that coulds. fanta not be a desperate and si undisciplined tactic that lee would support.he kne he knew the war was over here. the confederacy was over here. oy w all the other confederate generals followed his example. slave though the war, slavery and the confederacy ended in the spring of 1865, no one could claim to know what would come next. everything was up in the air when the events that we are commemorating today unfolded. the historian elizabeth varen has helped us to understand what happened here. quote, for grant, the union ñjkyk=i victory was one of right over wrong.or he believed that his magnanimity, no less than his victory, vindicated free societymagnct and the union's way of war. his generosity of spirit, he intended to say, this is what the north is actually like.ge to this is the spirit of gener

abraham van buren went to west point with jefferson davis and robert e lee.e had friends on other sides of this issue. pat: i think what is interesting is that after she is widowed -- or even before, she spends the rest of her life in new york city. caller: i grew up in kinderhook in the 1930's and 1940's. my recollection of the farm was that it was an abandoned home that was in total disrepair. the grounds were totally wild and any evidence of the farm was totally absent. the question is, at what point was this property -- did this property get improved? my recollection is that a man with some wealth bought the property and started repairing it and then the government took it over. michael: your memory is quite accurate. the family lost the farm after van buren died. it became recently a very large and ornate farmhouse. by that i can 30's it had been sort of run down. they tried to make a tea-house out of it, a couple of the things. it basically had never been owned by someone with enough money to do anything great for it. the person who bought the house try

angela: we finally realized all the lanes on the jefferson davis highway, live on interstate the sixc to sunwear and volume with a live look at manassas through the car rest area in centreville, one hundred 23 approaching the beltway from nutley street it is jammed eastbound on interstate 66. beltway delays towards the wilson bridge from branch avenue, on maryland five delays as you approach new hampshire avenue continuing to georgia avenue. kelly: some of our top stories right now, the suspect in last week's quadruple murder at a northwest d.c. mansion is waking up in a jail cell. police would not confirm if the suspect is the person in this video but we do know that u.s. marshals and d.c. police arrested him during the incident last night in northeast be safe. thousands of bikers are in the area for the vietnam veterans memorial bikers memorial. you can get more narrator: puerto rico's healthcare system is on life support, putting three and a half million puerto ricans at risk. it's an outrage. puerto ricans are us citizens and pay the same medicare taxes, but receive only half the

i mean abraham van buren went to west point with jefferson davis and robert e. - so i mean he had friends on other sides of this issue. brady: i think what's interesting though is that after she's widowed or actually even before, that she spends the last part of her life in new york city. henderson: yes in new york city. brady: it's again that that cosmopolitan yearning. swain: let's take a call from courtney in naples, florida. hello, courtney. >> hi, good evening. i grew up in kinderhook in the 1930's and 1940's. my recollection of lindenwald was the following. that number one, it was an abandoned home, there was total disrepair. the grounds were totally wild. and any evidence of farm was totally absent. and i guess my question is at what point did this property get improved? my recollection is a man with some wealth bought the property and started repairing it and the government took it over. could you fill that part of story? henderson: sure, your memory is quite accurate. van buren and van buren's family lost - left lindenwold after van buren. it went out o

davies says he was conceiving political reform in the soviet union a liberalization, he went back to the principles of jefferson, to the very taxi ride is a college student and that they meant a lot to him. ronald reagan cap notebooks private notebooks that he referred to when he was looking for sayings to use body was president and even before. instead of facing a never meant for publication, president reagan revealed jefferson to be his views by equating him to reagan's political idea -- idea of an open society. these are reagan's words that jefferson meant to have an open society. he used those words in contradistinction that the soviet model directly. so here was break-in attacking the evil empire. and gorbachev alike at the same time responding to the inspirational thought of thomas jefferson. reagan i should emphasize founding jefferson a lover of small government. reagan frequently quoted from jefferson's first inaugural asked a democratic president who came before him. because of jefferson's first inaugural are both liberal humanists and small government elements. but reagan liked was the line that said

jefferson davis was quoted as saying he wished he had that power. how far do states rights go to bring down the confederacy, and how far are we going to go in this modern age towards the same thing? david: that first question is a great question. somebody once said they should put an epitaph on the tomb of the confederacy -- i forget who said it -- the epitaph should be "died of states rights." the doctrine was founded that a state had a right to secede from the union, leave the federal union if their interests were being violated. they believed they were just exercising that sovereign right. a highly contested notion, of course. deeply contested by the lincoln administration and ultimately by the voters of the north. states rights did terra part the confederacy from within. they had to become a centralized government. they had to tax their own citizens. they had to communicate. they had to make their railroads run on time. they had to get production done in north carolina that would be shared with for junior. they had to get troops out of georgia t