Liberal support was given to the Confederacy, both in men and supplies, but Governor Vance, one of the ablest of the Southern war governors, engaged in acrimonious controversies with President Jefferson Davis, contending that the general government of the Confederacy was encroaching upon the prerogatives of the separate states.
America's Philo Vance had the strange gentility of Wimsey while Nero Wolf sounded more predatory.
The same can be said of his gentleman sleuth, Philo Vance.
But later in life he became even better known to the literary world by his novels, [[Joseph]] Vance (1906), Alice for Short (1907), Somehow Good (1908) and It Never Can Happen Again (1909), in which the influence of Dickens and of his own earlier family life were conspicuous.
She has one brother, Vance, who is an actor and guitarist for Cowboy Mouth.
