Confederate District Courts

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    “During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.”
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
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    “Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)