Their Tattered Flags Quotes

“No State government has the right to make war, raise armies, or conclude treaties of peace. These rights," he said, were "expressly conferred upon the Confederate Government." Far from the draft being unconstitutional, he felt that "the volunteering system . . . was extra-constitutional, if not unconstitutional.”
― Frank E. Vandiver, Their Tattered Flags: The Epic of the Confederacy (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series Book 5)