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ion of Mumford judicial system set up civil affairs administered by military authority order of President Lincoln for a provisional Court a military Court sustained by the army necessity, the reason given for the power to create the Court this doctrine fatal to the Constitution cause of our withdrawal from the Union fundamental principles unchanged by force the contest not over; the strife not ended when the war closed, who were the victors? On the capture of Nashville, on February 25, 1862, Andrew Johnson was made military governor of Tennessee, with the rank of brigadier general, and immediately entered on the duties of his office. This step was taken by the President of the United States under the pretense of executing that provision of the Constitution which is in these words: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government. The administration was conducted according to the will and pleasure of the governor, whic