Thread 17990319

Out of all the state governors of the confederacy during the civil war, who was the best and most effective one and why?

>>17990319 (OP)
Zebulon Vance of North Carolina.
He didn't want us to join the CSA, but when he saw that we were going to anyways, he did as much as he could to keep the state running and the men we sent to war fed and equipped, to the point that ours was the only state government that equipped our own regiments. He also opposed conscription, never suspended habeas corpus, and generally butted heads with Davis because fuck Davis.
He did pretty well during his post war term too and helped bridge the gap between North and South as a US Senator.

>>17990319 (OP)
I actually have a lot of respect for Beriah Magoffin, even though he was pro-slavery and sympathized with the Confederacy, he still respected the wishes of the Kentucky General Assembly to remain neutral for as long as he could and even resigned in the face of Unionist opposition within Kentucky's Congressional district. I feel he was a man of principle

>>17990319 (OP)

Zebulon Vance, he kept the Tar Heels fed, clothed, and equipped the entire war as >>17990343 pointed out. In retrospect, he probably should have been the leader of the Confederacy instead of Davis (who didn't even run for President, he was an example of a literal write-in candidate winning)

>>17990343
Sounds very based.

>>17990343
NC had a larger percentage of its population killed during the war than any other state in the csa. Not a great look.

>>17990319 (OP)
Henry Allen of Louisiana. Its impressive that with everything that happened (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and the base of the Mississippi taken by the Union) he managed to stage and effective resistence. When the Union marched into Northern Louisiana to finish off the Confederate remnats there, they got their teeth kicked in during the Red River Campaign and had to make the long march back to New Orleans. It wasnt until Lee surreneder and the Confederacy too that Louisiana finally quit.

Also, Zachary Taylors son is the one who led the Confederate resistence.

>>17990761
Louisiana should have been an easy mop up job for the Federals, especially after the fall of Vicksburg, but the combination of Banks’ ineptitude plus stubborn resistance by the likes of Allen and Richard Taylor meant they never controlled all the state, despite Lincoln’s desire to “reconstruct” Louisiana even before the war was over and get into Texas as a check against the French in Mexico.
Allen was shot up pretty bad while in military service or he might have stayed in the army rather than become governor. When I was a kid I remember climbing around his tomb at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge.

>>17990343
Joe Brown of Georgia had a similar state’s rights stance but he was a lot more detrimental to the cause and constantly bickered with the government over use of state militia, resources and railroads owned by the state of Georgia.