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	Kentucky Members of the Confederate Congress (1861-1862) - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
		On December 20th, 1860, South Carolina was the first Southern state to secede from the Union.
		The Congress elected (Feb. 9,1861) Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens president and vice president respectively, then drafted a constitution (adopted on March 11,1861) and functioned as the provisional legislature pending regular elections, holding five sessions in all: two in Montgomery and three in Richmond, Virginia.
		Shortly afterwards, the Confederate Provisional Congress was adjourned on Feb. 17,1862, on the eve of inauguration of a permanent Congress.
	www.kdla.ky.gov /resources/KYConfedCongress.htm (997 words)

	Congress of the Confederate States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Congress of the Confederate States was the legislative body of the Confederate States of America, existing during the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865.
		Deputies from the first seven states to secede from the Union, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas, met at the Provisional Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Alabama, in two sessions in February through May 1861.
		Acts passed by the sixth legislature of the state of Louisiana, at its first session, held and begun in the city of Baton Rouge, on the 25th of November 1861.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederate_Congress (460 words)

	Arkansas's Confederate Generals
		A prominent secessionist, Burrow was the candidate of the ultra-secessionist "Hindman" faction to the First Confederate Senate.
		First buried near Columbia, TN, Cleburne's remains were removed to his adopted home town of Helena, Arkansas, in 1870, where he is buried in the Confederate Cemetery in Maple Hill Cemetery.
		He was the first proposer of a Pacific railroad convention, and at one time obtained from the legislature of Louisiana a charter for a road with termini at San Francisco and Guazamas.
	www.civilwarbuff.org /arkgen.html (9933 words)

	Civil War Poetry Videoconference: Library of Congress Poetry Resources (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of ...
		This first issue of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, available through the Walt Whitman Archive, includes the 18 poems of Sequel to Drum-Taps, which were oginally published as part of the second edition of Drum-Taps (1865-1866).
		Written by Henry Timrod, known as the "Laureate of the Confederacy," during the first the meeting of the Confederate Congress in February 1861.
		First published in The Southern Literary Messenger (March, 1861), it was soon printed in broadside form with the note that it was to be sung to the air of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/lcpoetry/cwvc.html (1125 words)

	United States Ship Congress
		The first Congress was a galley built at the direction of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold at Skenesborough, New York, in 1776 for a fleet intended to impede British advance southward on Lake Champlain.
		One of the first 13 ships authorized to be built by the new government, she was placed under the command of Captain Grenell in the summer of 1776.
		Congress was assigned to the squadron of Commodore J. Rodgers, patrolling the North Atlantic, from June to August 1812.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/c/congress.htm (1717 words)

	Robert Wilbanks: Sons Confederate Veterans Oury Camp
		On August 5th, 1861 Oury was elected as a delegate to the Confederate Congress from the territory of Arizona.
		It wasn't until January 18th, 1862 that he was recognized and seated by the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America.
		On the later date, the First Confederate Congress was established.
	www.robertwilbanks.com /oury.htm (706 words)

	A Southern View of History: The War for Southern Independence -Part 6
		His first appearance in political strife on a general field was in the gubernatorial canvass of 1843.
		At first the tender of a place in the cabinet of the new President was declined, but on further consideration he accepted the office of secretary of war.
		Upon the organization of the Confederate States he espoused the cause of secession, went South, and was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of the President, with the rank of colonel of cavalry.
	www.scv674.org /SH-6.htm (13378 words)

	Confederate Flags
		Porter Alexander to Gen. James Longstreet describing the position of his Confederate First Corps’ artillery on Marye’s Heights overlooking the town of Fredericksburg, VA Six hundred yards of open field stretched between his position and the town, which was overflowing with Yankee soldiers.
		Attempts by the Confederate government to settle its differences with the Union were spurned by Lincoln, and the Confederacy felt it could no longer tolerate the presence of a foreign force in its territory.
		Believing a conflict to be inevitable, Lincoln ingeniously devised a plan that would cause the Confederates to fire the first shot and thus, he hoped, inspire the states that had not yet seceded to unite in the effort to restore the Union.
	www.flag-works.com /confederate.htm (4087 words)

	Congress
		The fourth Congress was launched at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H., 16 Aug. 1841, and placed in commission under Captain P. Voorhees on 7 May 1842.
		In 1859 Congress was reassigned as flagship of Commodore J. Sands and the Brazil Squadron, remaining in that area until the Civil War precipitated her return to Boston on 22 August 1861.
		Congress was anchored off Newport News, Va., on 8 March 1862, when she fell under attack by the Confederate ironclad, Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack) and five other small ships.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/c12/congress-iv.htm (583 words)

	The American Civil War (1860-1865)
		Congress passes a joint resolution amending the Constitution that would protect slavery where it existed, and that protection would be beyond amendment by Congress.
		The Battle of Philippi became the first land battle of the Civil War involving organized troops and the Union's use of the railroad to deploy troops to the area, to rapidly engage enemy troops, was likely the first such use in the world history of warfare.
		Confederate President Jefferson Davis, seeking support against the North, sent diplomats James Mason of Virginia as minister to Britain and John Slidell of Louisiana as minister to France.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwar.html (17243 words)

	First Confederate Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Confederate Congress was the first regular session of the legislature of the Confederate States of America.
		Members of the First Confederate Congress were chosen in elections held in November 1861.
		All sessions of the First Confederate Congress met in the Confederacy's capitol of Richmond, Virginia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Confederate_Congress (455 words)

	The 2nd National Flag of the Confederacy
		Hardly had the seamstresses turned out their first set of First National Flags when complaints about the emblems' appearance began to be voiced.
		In the Confederate field armies the problem of a flag that looked like that of the enemy-an important objection when the colors regiments carried on the field were a major means of identification-was solved by local commanders (see the page on the battle flag).
		Indeed, First National Flags were still being used as late as the Battle of Gettysburg by some units in the Army of Northern Virginia, despite the new flag's introduction.
	www.civilwarhome.com /2national.htm (879 words)

	Jefferson Davis' First Message To The Confederate Congress
		Gentlemen of the Congress: It is my pleasing duty to announce to you that the Constitution framed for the establishment of a permanent Government for the Confederate States has been ratified by conventions in each of those States to which it was referred.
		The South were willing purchasers of a property suitable to their wants, and paid the price of acquisition without harboring a suspicion that their quiet possession was to be disturbed by those who were inhibited not only by want of constitutional authority, but by good faith as vendors, from disquieting a title emanating from themselves.
		As soon, however, as the Northern States that prohibited African slavery within their limits had reached a number sufficient to give their representation a controlling voice in Congress, a persistent and organized system of hostile measures against the rights of the owners of slaves in the Southern States was inaugurated and gradually extended.
	www.rense.com /general47/jeffersondavisfirstmessage.htm (1064 words)

	John Tyler and the pursuit of national destiny
		Congress was inundated with their petitions calling for the national government to support a host of antislavery measures.
		Mockingly dubbed an "accidental" president by the political pundits of the day, the new chief executive quickly as well as deftly confronted the sectionalist challenge of the antislavery forces by counteracting and replacing, in some instances unabashedly co-opting, their vision of a free diplomacy with one dedicated to national destiny and glory.
		In Congress two of Tyler's confidants who dreamed of territorial empire and national greatness were Robert J. Walker of Mississippi and Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/crapol.htm (7513 words)

	MILLEDGE LUKE BONHAM - Original Member of the Aztec Club of 1847
		He was elected as a States Rights Democrat to the 35th and 36th Congresses and served from March 4, 1857 until his retirement on December 21, 1860.
		He commanded in the center of General Beauregard's army in the first Battle of First Manassas, as well as battles at Fairfax, Centerville and Vienna.
		He resigned his commission in January, 1862 to take a seat in the First Regular Confederate Congress, a post he resigned upon his election as Governor of South Carolina in January, 1863.
	www.aztecclub.com /bios/bonham.htm (418 words)

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		This is a body of Confederate defenses written over the years arguing that the Confederacy seceded for states' rights, that the war wasn't over slavery, and promoting the idea of the horrors of Reconstruction and supposed "negro misrule".
		Confederate advocates of arming the slaves, framed it around the points that there was nothing to lose and that if something wasn't done soon, the American armies were soon going to free the slaves anyway.
		Southerner Woodrow Wilson had the premier showing of "Birth of a Nation," in the White House, and with the authority of a former historian from the University of Virginia declared it was "history written with lightning," launching it to success and ultimately re-launching the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
	www.rtis.com /touchstone/summer01/02CONFED.HTM (5261 words)

	Historical Sketches of Southwest Virginia, Publication 18 - 1984
		On February 21, 1861 an act was passed by the Confederate Congress establishing a post office department, and on February 23, 1861 an act was approved, which was entitled an act to prescribe the rates of postage in the Confederate States of America.
		The Confederate Congress had fixed the rate of postage at five cents for the half-ounce on letters conveyed in the mails for any distance between places within the Confederate States not exceeding five hundred miles; and for any distance exceeding the half-ounce weight were to be charged double rate.
		The answer to the Maxwell case is based, first on a newspaper man's fiction, which he built in as a background for the case...so intensely did he overplay the conditions under which the death occurred...
	www.newrivernotes.com /swva/hssv-18.htm (11831 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		John Allen Wilcox, Confederate legislator, was born on April 18, 1819, in Green County, North Carolina, the son of Ruben and Sarah (Garland) Wilcox.
		In November he was elected the House of Representatives of the First Regular Confederate Congress by a large majority, representing the First Congressional District.
		Wilcox's estate was valued at a mere $275, and his burial expenses were borne by the Confederate government.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/fwi10.html (536 words)

	Valley of the Shadow
		He is one of the first men of the country, and the people should be sufficiently alive to their own interests to secure his services as their Representative in the Halls of Legislation.
		The Southern papers, and Southern letter writers, and Southern officials, tell the whole truth about the condition of their army and their country, whether good or bad, favorable or unfavorable, and thus the people of the South are at all times informed of the real condition of affairs.
		We can accomplish all this if Congress is made up of the right kind of men, to undertake it at once and with an energy worthy of the constituency they will represent.
	valley.vcdh.virginia.edu /Browser2/aubrowser/ssoct61.html (6565 words)

	Amazon.com: More Generals in Gray: Books: Bruce S. Allardice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is a popular misconception that Confederate military forces were models of efficiency and dash, contrasting with Union forces hindered by bureaucratic bungling and political meddling.
		As Allardice illustrates, the same maladies plagued Confederate armies; the promotion procedure for generals was particularly cumbersome and subject to the whims of politicians within and without the military structure.
		In this series of biographical sketches, Allardice examines the careers of 137 of the more obscure Confederate generals, most of whom were appointed outside the usual process, which required approval of the Confederate Congress.
	www.amazon.com /More-Generals-Gray-Bruce-Allardice/dp/0807119679 (1578 words)

	Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He was a member of the Alabama State house of representatives in 1847, 1853, and 1855, and elected as a Democrat as Representative from the Talladega District to the 35th and 36th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1857, to January 21, 1861, when he withdrew.
		He was deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Confederate Congress and a Representative in the First Confederate Congress.
		During the Civil War served as lieutenant colonel of Cavalry in the Confederate Army.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/curry.html (258 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		The First Confederate Congress met in Richmond, VA in February.
		The raiders were soon captured and the torn rails quickly repaired.
		15 - the Confederate Congress passed a Conscription Act drafting all men between 18 and 35 into Confederate service; it was approved by President Jefferson Davis the following day.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/1862.htm (429 words)

	Missouri Confederate Brigade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This initial lack of support on the part of the Confederate Government, along with a strong sense of pride in the State Guard, caused many of the Missouri State Guardsmen to be reluctant to join the Confederate service.
		The Confederate loss at Bakers Creek, despite another brilliant performance by the Missouri Brigade, was the key battle in the Vicksburg campaign.
		This is the history of Gate's First Missouri Cavalry Regiment (dismounted), another of the regiments of the brigade.
	members.aol.com /ozrkreb/hist4.htm (3166 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Malcolm Duncan (Daniel in some sources) Graham, Confederate legislator and judge, was born on July 6, 1827, in Autauga County, Alabama, the son of John and Jeanette (Smith) Graham.
		When Texas seceded from the Union he raised a regiment but left it upon winning a seat in the House of Representatives of the First Confederate Congress.
		He served on the Ways and Means Committee and later on the committee to establish a bureau of foreign supplies.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/fgr4.html (467 words)

	Old National Flag (1st Confederate Flag)
		Also called the "Stars and Bars Flag" and "First National Flag."
		First flown over the Montgomery, Alabama, capitol building on 4 March 1861, This flag was chosen out of hundreds of proposed designs which had been submitted to the provisional Confederate Government and then voted on by the Provisional Confederate Congress.
		It was originally adopted with 7 stars (one for each member of the existing new Confederacy) however stars were added as new states broke from the United States to join the Confederacy.
	www.ultimateflags.com /usahist/first_confederate.html (149 words)

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