JULY 27, 1863:
Confederate
fire-eater William Lowndes Yancey, who had been considered for the Provisional
Presidency of the Confederacy in 1861, dies in Montgomery, Alabama. A radical
secessionist and States’ Rights advocate, Yancey, as Senator from Alabama,
spent most of the war vehemently opposing the wartime “arrogation of power” by
the central government of the Confederacy.
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