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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