I just found this on one of the pages I posted. I wonder if Lincoln was found guilty? Sounds like a CSA joke to me. [excerpt from The Seventh Brigade Journal, 8 Apr 1862, p. 4] Elias Bumbo vs. Abraham Lincoln, et al- Order of Publication. IT appearing to me from Complainant's bill, that Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, is a nonresident of the State of Tennessee, so that the ordinary processs of law cannot be served upon him. It is therefore ordered by me that the publication be made in the Columbia Herald, a newspaper published in the town[?] of Columbia, Tenn., for four weeks, the last[?] publication to be at least five days before the next setting of the Chancery Court for Maury county, Tenn., to be held at the Court House in Columbia, on the 3d Monday in March next requiring the said Lincoln to appear and plead, answer or demur to Complainant's bill or the same will be taken for confessed as to him and set for hearing ex parte. A.M. Wingfield, C. & M. &n20-4w