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	A Guide to the Jefferson Davis Papers, 1861-1869, 1878, 1887-1891
		Papers relate to the career of Davis (1808-1889), soldier, politician, United States Congressman, United States Senator, United States Secretary of War, and President of the Confederate States of America.
		Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), soldier, politician, United States Congressman, United States Senator, United States Secretary of War, and President of the Confederate States of America
		Included are photographs, engravings and cartoons, a list of nominations for officers in the Confederate Navy, and a photostat of the certificate naming John H. Reagan as Postmaster General of the Confederacy.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/utcah/00383/00383-P.html

	Mississippi American Civil War Map of State Battles
		In this case, the time was summer 1863, and the setting was Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital; putting their heads together were President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and the Confederate secretary of war.
		The official flag of Mississippi during the War for Southern Independence (1861-1865) was a white flag with a magnolia tree in natural colors.
		Battles are impeccably recreated using 7,500 Civil War re-enactors and sanitized PG-13 violence, their authenticity compromised by tasteful discretion and endless scenes of grandiloquent dialogue.
	www.americancivilwar.com /statepic/ms.html (1272 words)

	Confederate States of America. War Dept Communication from Secretary of War: November 28, 1864.
		War Dept Communication from Secretary of War: November 28, 1864.
		Communication from Secretary of War: November 28, 1864.
		United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Virginia.
	docsouth.unc.edu /wardeptnov28/menu.html (1272 words)

	Jefferson Davis
		Jefferson Davis was the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, which existed at the time of the Civil War.
		In 1853 President Franklin Pierce asked Davis to be the United States secretary of war.
		A year later he resigned as a United States congressperson to lead an army from the state of Mississippi in the Mexican-American War.
	www.harcourtschool.com /activity/biographies/davis (1272 words)

	Confederate Naval Strategy: Letters of Marque
		On 9 November the Confederate Secretary of War, J. Benjamin, directed that the highest ranking Union prisoner of war then confined in Richmond would be held for execution in the same manner as adopted by the United States for the execution of "prisoner of war" Smith condemned to death in Philadelphia.
		The Confederate Secretary of Navy, Stephen Mallory (one of the two Davis appointments made during the first days of the War to last in office during the entire course of the life of the Confederacy) recognized that he would never be able to match the Union's capability to sustain naval warfare.
		Although the United States had utilized the letter of marque as a weapon during the Revolution and the War of 1812 and had refused to ratify the Declaration of Paris of 1856 which had outlawed privateering, Northern merchants were unanimously united that the practice was "piracy" and a barbarous method of war.
	www.civilwarweb.com /articles/05-00/privateers.htm (3334 words)

	American Civil War
		It was eventually decided to charge General Robert Lee, James Seddon, the Secretary of War, and several other Confederate generals and politicians with "conspiring to injure the health and destroy the lives of United States soldiers held as prisoners by the Confederate States".
		The government was now seriously concerned about the poor performance of the Union Army and Salmon Chase (Secretary of the Treasury), Edwin M. Stanton (Secretary of War) and vice president Hannibal Hamlin, who were all strong opponents of slavery, led the campaign to have George McClellan sacked.
		For example, 5,177 soldiers in the Union Army died of measles during the war.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAcivilwar.htm (7528 words)

	Stonewall's Surgeon : The Life of Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire, MD
		The Medical Department of the Confederate States was a branch of the War Department, and was under the immediate supervision of the Secretary of War.
		No organizations of Confederate troops were furnished by the State, which was subjugated by the United States; but many thousands of her citizens went to the aid of the Confederate States, and served in most of them in their commands to the close of the civil war.
		The object proposed to be accomplished by the Surgeon-General of the United Confederate Veterans, is the collection, classification, preservation and the final publication of all the documents and facts bearing upon the history and labors of the Medical Corps of the Confederates States Army and Navy during the civil war, 1861-'65.
	www.huntermcguire.goellnitz.org /csamedhistory.html (12487 words)

	Bugg
		In 1898, the Naval Records and Library of the US Navy Department issued the publication Register of Officers of the Confederate States Navy, 1861-1865, compiled from US and CS navy registers, reports of officers, records of the office of the Secretary of the Navy, and other miscellaneous papers.
		Series 2, Volume 1 of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, includes the names of many Naval officers and enlisted men who served in the Confederate States Navy during the war.
		Amongst the Pilots listed in the register is one William (Billy) Bugg, appointed in the Confederate States Navy from the state of Georgia.
	hub.dataline.net.au /~tfoen/bugg.html (517 words)

	Gideon Welles Papers (Library of Congress)
		The Letterbooks record the day-to-day operational and administrative policies enacted by the Navy Department during the Civil War including those related to the establishment of blockades, ship construction and naval ordnance, the outfitting of ironclads, naval engagements and tactical maneuvers, and the pursuit and capture of Confederate cruisers and subsequent rewarding of prize money.
		Other correspondence dates from his term of office as secretary of the navy throughout the Civil War and the early years of Reconstruction.
		The Diaries series includes a fifteen-volume diary, 1862-1869, written when Welles was secretary of the navy, and a three-volume retrospective narrative, 1861-1869, plus notes and journal entries for earlier periods in his life.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/welles.html (517 words)

	American Civil War 1962
		After complaints that had been made by President Abraham Lincoln and the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, about the inaction of the Union Army, Burnside was determined to immediately launch an attack on the Confederate Army.
		The government was now seriously concerned about the poor performance of the Union Army and Salmon Chase (Secretary of the Treasury), Edwin M. Stanton (Secretary of War) and vice president Hannibal Hamlin, who were all strong opponents of slavery, led the campaign to have George McClellan sacked.
		Wendell Phillips asked, "How many times are we to save Kentucky and lose the war?" This debate was also taking place in the Cabinet, as Edwin M. Stanton was now advocating the creation of black regiments in the Union Army.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAcivilwar3.htm (517 words)

	Amazon.com: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Rise & Fall of the Confederate Government): Books: Jefferson Davis
		South Carolina, General Johnston, General Beauregard, Fort Sumter, New York, North Carolina, General Price, Major Anderson, Rhode Island, Secretary of War, House of Representatives, President Lincoln, New Hampshire, General Polk, Great Britain, War Department, Secretary of State, General Harney, Harpers Ferry, Army of the Potomac, Bull Run, General Assembly, Governor Pickens, Missouri Compromise, New England
		This is a work that any one should read concerninig the details of the life and death of the Confederate nation.The principled beliefs those who founded the other American nation are presented.
		The Confederate Image : Prints of the Lost Cause by Mark E., Jr.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306804182?v=glance (1639 words)

	EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Boston, April 8, 1863.
		The Governor desires that you shall present the facts in the case to the Secretary of War, the particulars of which are fresh in your mind.
		Respectfully returned to the honorable Secretary of War with the remark that it seems impossible to do anything in this case except as a result of success in the war.
		THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
	www.coax.net /people/lwf/ltr_hw.htm (1639 words)

	The Wild Geese Today -- The Plains Wars
		Through Secretary Seward's intervention the three were given Captains' rank and on April 15 assigned to the staff of Irish-born Brigadier General James Shields, whose forces were about to confront the Confederate army of Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley.
		With Civil War raging in America, Secretary of State William H. Seward began seeking experienced European officers to serve the Union, and called upon a number of prominent clerics to assist in his endeavor.
		Distraught at the death of his beloved commander, Keogh accepted a transfer to the war's Western Theater where he was appointed to the staff of General George Stoneman, commanding the mounted forces of Sherman's army.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/plains.html (1639 words)

	Confederate States Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Confederate President Jefferson Davis, himself a former U.S. Army officer and U.S. Secretary of War, provided the strategic direction for Confederate land and naval forces.
		The Confederate War Department was established by the Confederate Congress in an Act of February 21, 1861.
		The Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS) was authorized by Act of Congress on February 28, 1861, and began organizing on April 27.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederate_States_Army (1384 words)

	Confederate States of America. "Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States ..."
		The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That an Executive Department be and the same is hereby established, under the name of the War Department, the chief officer of which shall be called the Secretary of War.
		The President of the Confederate States of America is hereby authorized to appoint or employ in his official household the following officers, to-wit: one private secretary, at an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, and one messenger, at an annual salary of five hundred dollars.
		Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the President be and he is hereby authorized to instruct the Commissioners appointed by him, to visit the European Powers, to enter into treaty obligations for the extension of international copyright privileges to all authors, the citizens and subjects of the powers aforesaid.
	docsouth.unc.edu /proviscongress/session1.html (1384 words)

	CSA
		In July 1861 D.M.K. Campbell of Alabama wrote to Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker asking how the Confederate government felt about guerrilla warfare: "Quite a number of men of undoubted respectability are anxious to serve the government of their own account", he wrote.
		The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be, and he is hereby authorized to commission such officers as he may deem proper with authority to form bands of partisan rangers, in companies, battalions or regiments, to be composed of such members as the President may approve.
		One of the great students of Confederate partisan and guerrilla warfare, Virgil Carrington Jones, once wrote in his famous book Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders that the Southern partisans stumbled on to one of the secrets of modern warfare through their intuition and vigorous support of a resistance movement for occupied territory.
	hem3.passagen.se /csa01 (2283 words)

	The Confederate Navy 1861-1865 (Part 1)
		The strategic purpose of the Confederate military during the Civil War was basically twofold: to protect the Southern states from outside invasion, and, failing in the first, to make the war so costly for the North that it would eventually be forced to give up from exhaustion.
		The decision by the Confederates to build ironclads was not entirely unexpected because the United States Navy had been interested in the idea since shortly after the War of 1812.
		On February 21, 1861, the Confederate Congress appointed Stephen R. Mallory as Secretary, Department of the Navy.
	www.magweb.com /sample/scamp/ca90csn1.htm (2647 words)

	Confederate States Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Confederate President Jefferson Davis, himself a former U.S. Army officer and U.S. Secretary of War, provided the strategic direction for Confederate land and naval forces.
		The Confederate War Department was established by the Confederate Congress in an Act of February 21, 1861.
		The Confederate States Army (CSA) was formed in February 1861 to defend the Confederate States of America, which had itself been formed that same year when seven southern states seceded from the United States (with four more to follow).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederate_Army (1358 words)

	Civil War in America Timeline of Battles
		In this case, the time was summer 1863, and the setting was Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital; putting their heads together were President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and the Confederate secretary of war.
		Timeline of the American Civil War year by year overview of events of the war.
		The third edition incorporates recent scholarship and addresses renewed areas of interest in the Civil War/Reconstruction era including the motivations and experiences of common soldiers and the role of women in the war effort.
	americancivilwar.com /tl/timeline.html (427 words)

	U2-BIB.html
		Cotton sold to the Confederate States: Letter from the secretary of the Treasury transmitting, in accordance with a resolution of the Senate of April 22, 1912, a report of sales of cotton to the Confederate States.
		Memorandum relative to the general officers appointed by the President in the armies of the Confederate States, 1861-1865.
		Confederate women of Arkansas in the civil war: 1861-'65.
	www.marshall.edu /speccoll/blake/U2-BIB.html (691 words)

	Confederate States of America
		The number of states in the Confederacy was increased to 11 by the secession of Virginia in April and of Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina in May. The provisional Confederate Congress, which had met for four sessions between February 4, 1861 and February 17, 1862, was replaced by a permanent legislature on February 18, 1862.
		(also Confederacy), name adopted by the federation of 11 slaveholding Southern states of the United States that seceded from the Union and were arrayed against the national government during the American Civil War.
		He was U.S. senator from Mississippi from 1847 to 1851, secretary of war in the cabinet of President Franklin Pierce from 1853 to 1857, and again U.S. senator from 1857 to 1861.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /070400/CSAGovernment.htm (691 words)

	The War of the Rebellion in Cornell University's Making of America
		It will set forth the annual and special reports of the Secretary of War, of the General-in-Chief, and of the chiefs of the several staff corps and departments; the calls for troops, and the correspondence between the national and the several State authorities.
		Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas.
		Contains the correspondence, orders, reports, and returns, Union and Confederate, relating to prisoners of war, and (so far as the military authorities were concerned) to State or political prisoners.
	cdl.library.cornell.edu /moa/browse.monographs/waro.html (1688 words)

	Amazon.com: Capital Navy: The Men, Ships, and Operations of the James River Squadron: Books: John M. Coski
		The Confederate States Navy arrived formally in Richmond in the person of Stephen Russell Mallory, secretary of the navy, on the evening of Monday, June 3, 1861.
		Capital Navy: The Men, Ships and Operations of the James River Squadron is an in-depth scrutiny of the role that Confederate naval operations on the James River and their impact on the war in Virginia had in the American Civil War.
		An exploration of virtually every aspect of the Confederate naval presence, from the early war construction of the ironclad behemoths to the underappreciated wooden ships that fought alongside their more famous iron-plated sister ships- and every engagement and action in between.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1882810031?v=glance (1801 words)

	Virginia Tech Libraries' Special Collections Guide to Civil War Manuscript Collections
		At the start of the Civil War he was appointed colonel of volunteers in the the Provisional Army of Virginia, and in July 1861 was appointed colonel of the 28th Virginia Infantry, Confederate States of America, where he served until the infantry's reorganization in April 1862.
		Topics include the Confederacy, Southern culture, the Confederate view of the Civil War, Confederate soldiers and officers (particularly Robert E. Lee), the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Civil War battles fought in Virginia, and the 1916 silent film "The Birth of a Nation." Ms93-019.
		Union soldier during the Civil War, writing from Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 20, 1864, to his daughter, about the many battles he fought in and the presence of the Confederates in the immediate area.
	spec.lib.vt.edu /civwar/guidecw.htm (1801 words)

	Politics: A Conjoint Attack Upon Wilmington
		Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon conceded the threat and informed General Whiting, adding sarcastically that "I need scarcely add any reason to stimulate your habitual vigilance to discover and guard against the approach of the enemy." The Cape Fear District commander promptly ordered the further strengthening of the river defenses below Wilmington.
		Consequently, on the night of September 1, U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton wired Grant, whose Army of the Potomac was embroiled in the bitter siege of Petersburg, Virginia: "The Navy Department appears very anxious that the army should take Wilmington.
		The experienced Gillmore wanted the job, and was endorsed by Secretary of War Stanton, but Grant rejected the general with complaints that Gillmore was too timid for command of such an important operation.
	www.fortfisher.nchistoricsites.org /politics.htm (1801 words)

	Theodore Roosevelt and the Navy by The Theodore Roosevelt Association
		The first of these was the improvement of the morale, administration and tactical efficiency of the Navy; Secondly, TR endeavored to publicize the case for increased naval power; and lastly, he energetically sought to prepare the battle fleet for something he believed was sure to come: war with Spain.
		In naming CVN 71, former Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman said, "(TR) was one of the architects of our modern Navy.
		In his Introduction, John makes plain that TR intended his Naval War of 1812 in part at least as an object-lesson in the value of military preparedness as a deterrent to war.
	www.theodoreroosevelt.org /life/TRandNavy.htm (2237 words)

	The War of the Rebellion in Cornell University's Making of America
		It will set forth the annual and special reports of the Secretary of War, of the General-in-Chief, and of the chiefs of the several staff corps and departments; the calls for troops, and the correspondence between the national and the several State authorities.
		Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas.
		Contains the correspondence, orders, reports, and returns, Union and Confederate, relating to prisoners of war, and (so far as the military authorities were concerned) to State or political prisoners.
	cdl.library.cornell.edu /moa/browse.monographs/waro.html (1688 words)

	Civil War Navy Dispatches
		Letter from the Secretary of the Navy of the Confederate States to Flag Officer Buchanan, C. Navy, commanding naval defenses, James River, suggesting the attack by the C. Virginia (Merrimack) upon New York City.
		Very truly, yours, R. Order of the Secretary of the Navy of the Confederate States to Lieutenant Simms, C. Navy, transferring him from the command of the C.S.S. Richmond to duty on the C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimack).
		Order of the Secretary of the navy of the Confederate States to Captain Buchanan, C. Navy, to proceed to the command of the James River defenses.
	www.wtj.com /archives/acwnavies/cnavy01.htm (3976 words)

	Confederate Burials in Mound City National Cemetery
		In 1866, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton reported that according to the Commisary General of Prisoners, over 26,000 Confederate POWs died in prisons and hospitals.
		Within the cemetery is a memorial to the Unknown Soliders and Sailors of the Civil War.
		Interest in caring for the graves in the north was not initiated until 1898, when President William McKinley spoke in favor of Federal Responsibility.
	www.illinoiscivilwar.org /cwmoundcitycem.html (306 words)

	Confederate States of America. The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America Passed at the Fourth Session of the First Congress, 1863-4 : Carefully Collated with the Originals at Richmond.
		The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the commutation value of rations of the sick and wounded, and of all employees in hospitals, be fixed at such rates, not to exceed two and a half dollars, as the Secretary of War shall designate.
		--Of conspiracies or attempts to liberate prisoners of war held by the Confederate States.
		Congress of the Confederate States of America from the State of Arkansas.
	docsouth.unc.edu /imls/23conf/23conf.html (7889 words)

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