John Archibald Campbell - Court Retirement and Confederate Appointment

Court Retirement and Confederate Appointment

After learning of the reinforcement of Fort Sumter, Campbell resigned from the Court on April 30, 1861, and returned to Alabama. A year later he was named Assistant Secretary of War by Confederate president Jefferson Davis, a position he held through the end of the war.

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