On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:25:47 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

And as Jefferson Davis increasingly found himself doing, driven by the
exigencies of war, to the dismay of Confederate governors who thought a
strong federal government was something they'd left behind when they
seceded.

....This is another point Turtledove makes in "Guns of the South". For
all their wants of separate but equal independent state governments,
the Confederacy winds up having to admit that there needs to be some
form of Federal government to keep it secure with regards to the rest
of the world. Otherwise, it's less than a dozen microcountries that
can be picked off one by one, or especially by an internal threat.

OM
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