Editing Confederate States of America (section)

====Judicial====
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Jesse Finley - Brady-Handy.jpg|[[Jesse J. Finley]]<br />Florida District
HenryRootesJackson.jpg|[[Henry R. Jackson]]<br />Georgia District
NC-Congress-AsaBiggs.jpg|[[Asa Biggs]]<br />North Carolina District
Andrew Gordon Magrath.jpg|[[Andrew Gordon Magrath|Andrew Magrath]]<br />South Carolina District
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The Confederate Constitution outlined a judicial branch of the government, but the ongoing war and resistance from states-rights advocates, particularly on the question of whether it would have appellate jurisdiction over the state courts, prevented the creation or seating of the "Supreme Court of the Confederate States". Thus, the state courts generally continued to operate as they had done, simply recognizing the Confederate States as the national government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.albanylaw.edu/sub.php?navigation_id=821 |title="Legal Materials on the Confederate States of America in the Schaffer Law Library", Albany Law School |publisher=Albanylaw.edu |access-date=August 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103033519/http://www.albanylaw.edu/sub.php?navigation_id=821 |archive-date=November 3, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Confederate district courts were authorized by Article III, Section 1, of the Confederate Constitution,<ref name="ReferenceJud"><span class="plainlinks">[[s:Constitution of the Confederate States of America#a3-s1|Constitution of the Confederate States of America – Wikisource, the free online library]]</span>. Retrieved July 6, 2018.</ref> and President Davis appointed judges within the individual states of the Confederate States of America.<ref name="Moise, E. Warren 2003">[Moise, E. Warren, Rebellion in the Temple of Justice (iUniverse 2003)]</ref> In many cases, the same US Federal District Judges were appointed as Confederate States District Judges. Confederate district courts began reopening in early 1861, handling many of the same type cases as had been done before. Prize cases, in which Union ships were captured by the Confederate Navy or raiders and sold through court proceedings, were heard until the blockade of southern ports made this impossible. After a Sequestration Act was passed by the Confederate Congress, the Confederate district courts heard many cases in which enemy aliens (typically Northern absentee landlords owning property in the South) had their property sequestered (seized) by Confederate Receivers.<ref name="Moise, E. Warren 2003" />

'''Supreme Court''' – not established.

'''District Courts''' – judges
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* Alabama [[William Giles Jones]] 1861–1865
* Arkansas [[Daniel Ringo]] 1861–1865
* Florida [[Jesse J. Finley]] 1861–1862
* Georgia [[Henry R. Jackson]] 1861, Edward J. Harden 1861–1865
* Louisiana [[Edwin Warren Moise]] 1861–1865
* Mississippi [[Alexander Mosby Clayton]] 1861–1865
* North Carolina [[Asa Biggs]] 1861–1865
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* South Carolina [[Andrew G. Magrath]] 1861–1864, [[Benjamin F. Perry]] 1865
* Tennessee [[West H. Humphreys]] 1861–1865
* Texas-East William Pinckney Hill 1861–1865
* Texas-West Thomas J. Devine 1861–1865
* Virginia-East [[James D. Halyburton]] 1861–1865
* Virginia-West [[John W. Brockenbrough]] 1861–1865
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