Civil Liberties

Why is it that when we study the Civil War, we hear talk about Lincoln and the steps he took to protect the Union, that deprived the people of their Civil Liberties, but we never talk about the fact that Jefferson Davis was doing the same thing? I have been reading about inscription and martial law in the South as it occurred in the South. Some of these things, like the draft, was in place in the South, long before it every happened in the North, yet it seems to be a well kept secret.