kontextmaschine:

I think our Civil War leaves Americans underappreciative of the disruption of civil war ‘cause there was actually pretty little disruption of government continuity here. The CSA was a new form, but it was in fact a confederation of states, “The Government of the State of Alabama, which already has an established relationship with every entity in Alabama, can raise taxes and men that they can combine into an armed force” was not at all novel, and most people’s only relationship with the federal level of government was the post office

How did mail work in the CSA? I know prewar the US Postal Inspectors had been kind of tasked with blocking abolitionist agitation from the slave states so I assume it wasn’t just pro forma