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Confederate Civil Service

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The Department of War controlled conscription, the production of munitions, the collection of food, and the construction of additional mining and munition-production facilities. These were considered an entirely war-related thing, and were delegated to the department with no civilian involvement. The
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The Confederate government after its secession to preserve slavery set up a nearly identical copy of the U.S. government, yet did not permit the existence of a Department of the Interior. The Department of State was tasked with "King Cotton diplomacy" to attempt to establish trade with anyone willing
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The Department of Justice was run by an Attorney General. This Attorney General also supervised the costs of the courts, the Patent Office and the Printing Bureau. Attempts to create a Supreme Court never passed because of "fierce opposition" by states that preferred the Attorney General himself to
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The Treasury Department was modeled around the previous, federal office, with a Comptroller, Auditor, Register, Treasurer, and Assistant Secretary. Additional sub-departments were created during the war, including the Office of the Second Auditor to audit accounts of the War Department, a War Tax
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were heavily expanded during the war to cope with the work. Of the 70,000-odd employees of the Confederate Civil Service over the course of the war, 57,124 worked for the Department of War. The department employed large numbers of children and women to handle the work. The Civil Service ceased to
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to perpetuate slavery. The department was relatively unsuccessful, given that most slavery already had been banned worldwide, and thus employed only a small number of civilians - around thirty.
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Office, the Treasury Note Bureau, and the Produce Loan Office. The department included customs collection, although with the decline of Southern trade this was a small area.
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The Civil Service was created by the Provisional Government meeting on February 4, 1861, copying the same basic pattern as the
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federal government that it just seceded from. The decision to expand slavery into western territories led to a "
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South had previously contained large munitions factories, such as in New Orleans following the
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exist in 1865, when the Confederacy was defeated by Union forces and slavery was abolished.
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have final legal authority rather than accept the ruling of a court.
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1865 disestablishments in the Confederate States of America
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van Riper, Paul (1959). "The Confederate Civil Service".
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1861 establishments in the Confederate States of America
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Index

civil service
Confederate States of America
United States
total war
Treasury
War Departments
Department of the Treasury
War Department
Department of the Navy
Mexican–American War
ISSN
0022-4642
ISBN
978-1476625140
Categories
1861 establishments in the Confederate States of America
Civil services
Government of the Confederate States of America
1865 disestablishments in the Confederate States of America

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