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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875

Journal of the Confederate Congress --FRIDAY, September 26, 1862.

Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 [Volume 2]
FRIDAY, September 26, 1862.

OPEN SESSION.

On motion by Mr. Orr,

Ordered, That the Hon. Robert W. Barnwell have leave of absence from the sessions of the Senate during the remainder of the present session.

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Mr. Sparrow submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:

Resolved, That the President be requested to inform the Senate whether the appropriation made by the act entitled "An act to aid in the construction of a certain line of railroad in the States of Louisiana and Texas," approved nineteenth April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, has been, in whole or in part, used for the purpose contemplated by the act, or if any contract or engagement has been made by him in relation to the said appropriation, or any part of it.

Mr. Semmes submitted a memorial of L. Rousseau, praying the passage of a law for the retirement of certain officers of the Navy, with increased rank and diminished pay; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. Hunter submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be authorized to employ, temporarily, whatever additional clerks may be necessary to secure the prompt enrollment and engrossment of bills and joint resolutions during the remainder of the session, at a compensation not to exceed five dollars per diem.

Mr. Hill, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 19) to amend acts No. 223 and No. 311 of the Provisional Congress, so as to authorize an extension of the time for selling property for taxes in default, reported it without amendment.

The Senate proceeded to consider, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill (H. R. 19) last mentioned; and no amendment being proposed, it was reported to the Senate.

Ordered, That it pass to a third reading.

The said bill was read the third time.

Resolved, That it pass.

Ordered, That the Secretary inform the House of Representatives thereof.

Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 16) regulating the granting of furloughs to wounded and sick soldiers, reported it, with the recommendation that it ought not to pass.

On motion by Mr. Orr,

Ordered, That it be printed.

Mr. Sparrow, from the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill (H. R. 15) to amend an act entitled "An act to further provide for the public defense," approved 16th April, 1862; reported

That they have carefully considered the same, and the differences between the two Houses thereon, and report the accompanying bill, with the recommendation that it pass:

An act to amend an act entitled "An act to further provide for the public defense," approved sixteenth April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to call out and place in the military service of the Confederate States, for three years, unless the war shall have been sooner ended, all white men who are residents of the Confederate States, between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five years, at the time the call or calls may be made, and who are not at such time or times legally exempted from military service, or such parts thereof as in his judgment may be necessary to the public defense; such call or calls to be made under the provisions and according to the terms of the act to which this is an amendment, and such authority shall exist in the President during the present war, as to all persons who now are, or may hereafter become, eighteen years of age; and when once enrolled, all persons between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years,

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shall serve their full time: Provided, That if the President, in calling out troops into the service of the Confederate States shall first call for only a part of the persons between the ages hereinbefore stated, he shall call for those between the ages of thirty-five and any other age less than forty-five: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be understood as repealing or modifying any part of the act of which this is amendatory, except as herein expressly stated: And provided further, That those called out under this act, and the act to which this is an amendment, shall be first and immediately ordered to fill to their maximum number the companies, battalions, squadrons, and regiments from the respective States at the time the act to further provide for the public defense, approved sixteenth April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, was passed, and the surplus, if any, shall be assigned to organizations formed from each State since the passage of that act, or placed in new organizations, to be officered by the State having such residue, according to the laws thereof, or disposed of as now provided by law: Provided, That the President is authorized to suspend the execution of this, or the act to which this is an amendment, in any locality where he may find it impracticable to execute the same; and that in such localities, and during said suspension, the President is authorized to receive troops into the Confederate service under any of the acts passed by the Confederate Congress prior to the passage of the act to further provide for the public defense, approved sixteenth April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

The Senate proceeded to consider the said report; and

On motion by Mr. Sparrow,

Resolved, That the Senate concur therein.

Ordered, That the Secretary inform the House of Representatives thereof.

On motion by Mr. Hunter,

The Senate resolved into secret legislative session.

The doors having been opened,

The following message was received from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Ford:

Mr. President: The House of Representatives have passed a bill of the Senate (S. 73) to amend an act entitled "An act for the establishment and organization of a general staff for the Army of the Confederate States of America."

On motion by Mr. Hill, that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the bill (S. 19) to organize the Supreme Court of the Confederate States,

It was determined in the affirmative,
• Yeas ... 10
• Nays ... 8

On motion by Mr. Hill,

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present,

Those who voted in the affirmative are,

Messrs. Davis, Haynes, Henry, Hill, Maxwell, Orr, Phelan, Preston, Semmes, and Wigfall.

Those who voted in the negative are,

Messrs. Burnett, Clark, Clay, Hunter, Lewis, Mitchel, Sparrow, and Yancey.

So the Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the bill (S. 19) to organize the Supreme Court of the Confederate States.

On motion by Mr. Clark, that the vote on taking up the said bill be reconsidered,

On motion by Mr. Phelan,

That the Senate adjourn,

It was determined in the negative.

On the question, to agree to the motion submitted by Mr. Clark,

On motion by Mr. Phelan,

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Ordered, That the further consideration of the bill be postponed until to-morrow at 12 o'clock.

Mr. Henry, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 9) to increase the Signal Corps, reported it without amendment.

The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the bill (H. R. 9) last mentioned; and no amendment being proposed, it was reported to the Senate.

Ordered, That it pass to a third reading.

The said bill was read the third time.

Resolved, That it pass.

Ordered, That the Secretary inform the House of Representatives thereof.

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Lamar:

Mr. President: The House of Representatives have agreed to the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill (H. R. 15) to provide for the filling up of existing companies, squadrons, battalions, and regiments of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States.

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Lamar:

Mr. President: The House of Representatives have passed a bill of the Senate (S. 96) to better provide for the sick and wounded of the Army in hospitals.

The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. N. Harrison, his Secretary:

Richmond, Va., September 26, 1862.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of War, replying to your resolution of the 16th instant, in reference to the enforcement of the conscript act in the State of Georgia, and stating the action of the Department with regard to the command of the conscript camp in that State.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

The message was read.

Ordered, That it lie on the table.

The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. N. Harrison, his Secretary:

Richmond, Va., September 26, 1862.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I herewith transmit for your information a communication from the Secretary of War, in reference to the defense of western and southern rivers, to which I invite your attention.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

The message was read.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (S. 81) to provide for filling vacancies in certain cases.

After debate,

An amendment having been proposed to the bill by Mr. Phelan,

On motion by Mr. Yancey,

The Senate resolved into executive session.

The doors having been opened,

On motion by Mr. Burnett,

The Senate adjourned until to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock.

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SECRET SESSION.

Mr. Hunter, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the message of the President on the subject, reported

A bill (S. 105) to appropriate money for the purchase, arming, and equipping vessels abroad;
which was read the first and second times and considered as in Committee of the Whole; and no amendment being proposed, the bill was reported to the Senate.

Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time.

The said bill was read the third time.

Resolved, That it pass, and that the title thereof be as aforesaid.

Ordered, That the Secretary request the concurrence of the House of Representatives therein.

On motion by Mr. Brown,

Ordered, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the memorial of J. B. Read, submitting a plan for the construction of a torpedo gunboat.

On motion by Mr. Clay,

The Senate resolved into executive session.

EXECUTIVE SESSION.

On motion by Mr. Clay,

The Senate resumed the consideration of the nomination of Thomas Jordan to be brigadier-general.

After debate,

On the question,

Will the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of Thomas Jordan?

It was determined in the affirmative.

So it was

Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of Thomas Jordan to be brigadier-general, agreeably to the nomination of the President.

Mr. Brown, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom were referred (on the 23d instant) the nominations of William F. Carter and William H. Wall, to be lieutenants for the war; William B. Micou, to be assistant paymaster; Albert A. Nelson, William N. Smith, and L. M. Thompson, to be assistant paymasters for the war, reported, with the recommendation that said nominations be confirmed.

The Senate proceeded to the consideration of said report; and in concurrence therewith it was

Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to their appointment, agreeably to the nomination of the President.

Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred (on the 19th instant) the nominations of Alexander Hart, H. G. Davidson, J. Brownrigg, W. L. Nichol, W. E. Buie, Ed. N. Carey, J. W. Hall, Francis Sorrel, J. W. C. Smith, Peter W. Young, Peter Custis, L. P. Yandell, Charles Langenbecher, E. H. C. Bailey, Thomas D. Isom, Benjamin F. Fessenden, Benjamin F. Cobb, William C. Warren, Hector Turner, William H. Doughty, Richard B. Baker, L. M. Carn, Benjamin Blackford, J. B. Davis, John H. Hunter, A. P. Hall, George Lumpkin, B. M. Cromwell, Benjamin Rhett, LeG. G. Capers, E. M.

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Seabrook, John F. Miller, E. E. Jenkins, W. J. David, A. L. Breysacher, Henry Izard, J. W. Pitts, J. F. Harrington, George E. Redwood, E. A. Jelks, G. A. D. Galt, B. W. Allen, C. D. Fletcher, Joseph B. Ficklen, Joseph A. S. Milligan, A. Howard Scott, C. D. Rice, J. M. Rogers, W. S. Love, Oliver B. Knode, James M. Hatchett, William G. Bulloch, Alfred B. Tucker, William A. Nelson, Adolphus E. Read, Paul De Lacy Baker, J. G. Brodnax, Robert F. Baldwin, James P. Jervey, G. Owen, P. G. Robinson, B. F. Blount, G. W. Currey, Edmund R. Walker, Thomas A. Proctor, Benjamin W. Bradley, Gabriel Harrison, William P. Mallett, Bedford Brown, James B. Read, Edward Geddings, E. F. Bouchelle, William P. Palmer, Ashton Miles, D. Herndon, Samuel Annan, John T. Banks, J. F. Fauntleroy, George J. Colgin, Thomas A. Harris, Thomas Hill, William C. Horlbeck, David A. Mathews, William T. Abrahams, H. Gilbert Leigh, Benjamin C. Fishburne, Flournoy Carter, William A. Gordon, William H. Harris, James L. Moore, Addison M. Bourland, John P. Mitchell, William C. Ravenel, Samuel T. Gregory, J. Dickson Smith, Joseph Ganahl, Thomas D. Wooten, Benjamin G. Dysart, William H. Hawkins, Lucien McDowell, John B. Bond, G. F. Jones, R. S. Halsey, W. R. Hodges, George R. C. Todd, to be surgeons; E. S. Drew, S. W. Carmichael, Thomas F. Maury, S. R. Sayers, William Green, Thomas J. Boykin, J. B. Barnette, J. T. Johnson, W. D. Somers, M. J. Bolan, John S. Fenner, A. H. Snead, J. H. Nuttall, John S. Fletcher, William W. Gaither, Matt. Turner, John W. Vaughn, James W. Tracy, John W. Jones, Thomas C. Hill, J. D. Estes, W. E. Michie, Thomas S. Miller, Daniel Tucker, William M. Swann, Simon Baruch, Aurelius A. Lyon, W. E. Pegram, Edwin D. Newton, Jacob H. Jones, Richard H. Woodward, Elhanon W. Rowe, Jacob P. Harrison, Samuel C. Smith, John R. Leigh, William J. Upshaw, John B. Wily, Edwin S. Ray, William A. Hardy, Charles A. Board, Thomas J. Lockett, H. M. Clarkson, James C. Watson, Francis C. Ellison, John W. Leftwich, Jesse P. Brown, Simpson Russ, Alexander H. Roscoe, Sylvester L. Nidelet, Richard B. Burroughs, Capers M. Rivers, Henry K. Cochran, Thomas L. Ogier, jr., Keith A. Quarterman, Memory Bonner, William A. Player, John Y. Du Pré, Edward V. Munro, Amos N. Bellinger, George W. Alsop, B. B. Singeltary, William S. Easley, W. A. B. Norcom, Isaiah H. White, Thomas E. Moorman, Mason G. Ellzey, Robert L. Hoard, J. A. Harrison, Elisha Young, E. H. Fournier, A. E. Wright, Tilghman M. Layton, R. S. Baldwin, Christopher J. Prentiss, Lucien Hall, F. O. Tompkins, Charles R. Thomson, Daniel S. Pope, Charles E. Fleming, Thomas S. Waring, Henry Robinson, Thomas S. Thomas, Wiley K. Fort, Augustus R. Taylor, W. S. R. Brockenbrough, Franklin B. Henderson, William Hunt Hall, Thomas S. Hemingway, William H. Daughtry, John S. Conrad, William H. Amiss, B. R. Doyle, R. Coleman Carlisle, Thomas M. Wilson, Mansfield J. Jones, Henry Frost, James H. Oliver, John B. Wortham, James H. Bryan, Richard L. Johnson, Vivian Quesenberry, jr., James M. Madden, Calhoun Sams, James B. Black, George W. Richards, William H. Barnes, Joseph J. Murray, George K. Turner, John W. Hill, William Oliver Hudson, Benjamin M. Walker, James M. Meggett, Ed. B. Smith, James F. Pearce, Camillus T. Coleman, Alexander Harris, Alexander D. Hamilton, John W. Sherrod, John M. Reynolds, Solomon Secord, Ephraim M. Jenkins, John S. Stoney, A. Grigsby Emory, Samuel T. Chandler, Algernon M. Lee,

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Ralph B. Hanahan, A. English Williams, Thomas C. Girardeau, Joseph Winthrop, Walter H. Dean, E. L. Thomson, John W. Lawson, Lucius C. Coke, Thomas D. Merritt, Edwin Barnes, David E. Bass, Joseph C. Shepard, Lafayette Hussey, Sterling B. Simmons, Christian D. Owens, Robert M. Harper, Du P. Hooper, Robert P. Taliaferro, William Henry Shields, Powhatan Bledsoe, Hume Feild, William Wallace, Aristides Monteiro, John Alexander Graham, Samuel W. Field, Thomas C. Pugh, William C. Brown, Lafayette H. Jordan, N. Jefferson Crow, William Jordan Luck, J. R. Slayton, William W. Lane, William H. Hughes, John H. Kinyoun, Hugh W. Gardner, John Adams Vigal, J. H. Foster, James M. Hoyl, E. W. Thomason, H. M. Caldwell, Herman Baer, William Wilson S. Butler, W. C. Ferguson, Seabrook Jenkins, John C. L. Engle, Patrick Henry Griffin, C. A. Ashlin, to be assistant surgeons; Lawrence O'Connell, George E. Brewer, J. K. Howell, J. W. McMurran, Joseph Walker, Charles H. Boggs, S. F. Halliday, A. C. Hopkins, George B. Taylor, William H. Hughes, Kinsey Stuart, J. M. Meredith, Alexander Phillippi, Thomas B. Espy, H. D. Hoyt, I. N. Reeves, Frank Stanly, Edward J. Dill, A. H. Sloat, George T. Williams, F. M. Haynes, John F. Poulton, J. D. Mitchell, William E. Walters, T. D. Witherspoon, John W. Mills, Lewis F. Davis, J. T. Bowles, Charles A. Fulwood, G. T. Gray, William G. Parsons, O. H. Sears, Joseph R. Sharp, B. M. Scrivener, Charles F. Gillespie, James B. Taylor, C. T. Quintard, R. N. Crooks, H. G. Hill, H. E. Cassidey, Samuel Johnson, Robert G. Porter, Thomas S. West, J. A. Miller, J. A. McCutchen, George Slaughter, Jefferson Barton, W. W. Lord, Robert S. Moran, Thomas C. Weir, James B. Hall, Thomas H. Breman, P. G. Jamison, John J. Hyman, A. B. Stephens, G. C. Connor, J. H. Page, George Macauley, George Russell, George H. Gilmer, R. Holman, Hiram M. Matthis, James M. Stokes, Benjamin F. Perry, G. C. M. R. Kramer, Henry M. Sneed, Harvey McHan, O. R. Blue, J. C. Lowe, Styring S. Moore, W. W. Oslin, A. G. Raines, L. W. Allen, John B. McCullough, F. A. Kimbell, W. Haslett, J. H. Willoughby, James R. Waggener, William M. Vanderhurst, O. D. Fitzgerald, J. H. Colton, J. M. Greene, J. M. Cline, William B. Hoover, James E. Godfrey, sr., W. J. McCormick, A. C. Stanley, William H. Talley, W. J. Foust, J. W. Miller, W. V. Wilson, A. C. Caperton, Robert A. Mickle, Peter A. Peterson, Isaac Spangler, B. F. Long, G. W. Johnston, W. D. Carson, J. F. N. Huddleston, Jacob E. Dodd, D. W. Fly, George H. Norton, John R. Bennett, B. T. Kavanaugh, D. W. Wiggins, Evander McNair, James A. Porter, Franklin Finney, J. B. McCutcheon, Edwin C. Wexler, T. H. Howle, John Paris, B. J. Johnson, J. E. Williamson, L. H. Baldwin, Alexander W. Moore, J. E. Martin, A. H. Booth, D. B. Ewing, Asa M. Marshall, James M. Russell, W. H. Fleming, W. F. Pearson, A. G. Thomas, W. J. Davis, J. W. Hinton, R. W. Bidgood, Francis W. Hilliard, Morris J. Langhorne, Henry B. Treadwell, to be chaplains; F. L. Thompson, Thomas C. Holliday, John F. Stewart, James E. Terrill, John D. Ridley, George F. Cherry, T. G. Pollock, W. W. Lewis, F. X. Ward, Bird Holland, James McA. Pace, J. J. Nix, Robert C. Bell, Robert G. Sims, Richard F. Lawton, George J. Rogers, J. B. Habersham, R. Pryor James, Mann Page, Richard M. Venable, R. T. Crawford, James H. Capers, William T. Taliaferro, John R. Ely, Joseph A. Sykes, John W. Campbell, Hobson Powell, Dunstan E. Banks, John F. Green, Henry C. Allen, William R. Jones, John N. Perkins, George W. Finley, William

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Hawkins, Randolph Harrison, Samuel H. Moore, John F. Hanson, Julien Cumming, J. P. Hoyt, Francis M. Hanks, A. B. Jones, E. F. Kendall, W. O. Moore, Thomas O. Wicker, William Bernard Meredith, Henry A. Garrett, S. V. Southall, Stephen C. Thompson, William Bowles, Thomas A. Hatch, John E. Burch, John L. Chandler, James W. Thomas, James W. Sandiford, Gilbert Elliott, Samuel H. Buchanan, Christopher C. Burke, J. C. H. Bryant, A. C. Burns, J. J. Callaway, James W. Riddick, R. M. Bearden, P. R. O'Rorke, William A. James, Joel W. Haden, James N. Campbell, James E. Shelley, C. F. Davis, C. A. Durham, John D. Leland, Joseph N. Bass, James P. Graves, James H. Waddell, Hugh M. Wylie, Samuel B. Waters, William Scott, R. Mallett, McPherson Wright, James H. Rogers, Thomas Hollingsworth, John M. Fleming, H. A. Gaillard, Charles Y. Steptoe, W. E. Cameron, William M. Hammond, W. F. Henderson, Daniel Jones, W. D. Kendall, F. M. Hammond, W. H. Taylor, L. Gayle, R. S. Cheatham, G. M. Blount, John C. Meadors, J. E. McGuire, R. F. Sturdivant, R. M. Harwell, W. M. McAllister, Drury Lacy, jr., W. P. Davis, Alfred R. Murray, T. M. Childs, L. A. Chapman, Esidore Ellis, E. E. Sill, Henderson C. Lucas, Hugh A. Gaston, Edward P. Harman, John S. Allen, William P. Du Bose, Samuel W. Mosby, J. B. Poindexter, Y. J. Pope, W. J. Mathis, G. W. Kearney, George L. Gordon, D. P. Holland, James Vance, Junius M. Macon, G. M. Hoke, John R. Latta, John W. Daniel, Robert C. Hammet, William S. Turner, Benjamin S. Williams, Thomas Irion, Lomax Tayloe, David W. Hurst, jr., Patrick K. Maloney, L. P. Warren, Thomas M. Brantley, Charles S. Arnall, Alexander Tunstall, jr., H. Steele, W. S. Thomas, Oliver C. Carr, A. Shaw, W. D. Hickman, John C. Stallworth, James W. McDonald, J. P. S. Winder, Charles J. Pegues, J. Clarence Palmer, James W. Lansdale, H. J. McCurdy, Thomas H. McKinney, James T. Norman, Edward R. Harden, R. G. Cross, William R. Young, George Vidmer, John W. Amiss, J. H. Mathews, William S. Wright, F. L. Price, B. D. Griffin, W. J. Cowles, John E. Minshall, R. B. L. Soery, Thomas C. Powell, Oliver D. Cooke, I. J. Winston, William E. Sykes, A. B. Broughton, Armistead Burwell, J. W. Johnston, James R. Cole, James M. Bullock, J. A. Braun, Frederick Gates, Francis B. Berkeley, B. F. Simmons, Robert H. Allen, Edward A. Semple, Hugh F. Patton, William P. Curlee, J. Walter Perry, R. Y. Ashe, Edmund Kirby, John W. Rentz, Peter Fontaine, J. J. McClenden, J. C. Wardlaw, Thomas S. Bell, Lewis Harman, A. Grayson Halyburton, Samuel Hale, John W. Kerr, Joseph V. H. Nash, George H. Moffett, Matthew Watson, George T. Howard, W. C. Buchanan, and John M. Page, to be adjutants, with the rank of first lieutenant, reported, with the recommendation that said nominations be confirmed.

The Senate proceeded to the consideration of said report; and in concurrence therewith it was

Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to their appointment, agreeably to the nomination of the President.

Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred (on the 19th instant) the nominations of Gustavus A. Nott, Benjamin Franklin Watkins, John Isaac Hulse, Thomas Franklin Gullett, Horace L. Houze, John G. Scott, Caleb B. Lampley, Allmand Holmes, William T. Sutton, James F. Foulkes, John Wilson, Peter F. Whitehead, William B. Russel, Dan. Shaw, Duke W. Hunter, F. R. Durrett, John H. Britts, William M. Gough, O. Kratz, H. W. Brown,

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J. D. Alison, L. W. Tuttle, John Brownrigg, Henry Izard, J. C. Legare, Henry Yandell, V. W. Gilbert, W. C. Wathen, G. H. Fort, Charles T. Hart, William Henry Robins, John W. Prewitt, A. M. Headley, Benjamin F. Roberts, John F. McGregor, F. A. Stanford, Z. J. Scott, Francis M. Garrett, Henry D. Fraser, Edward North, John P. Chazal, W. P. Reese, Miller W. Francis, F. H. Evans, Dudley D. Saunders, S. L. Nidelet, T. J. Scurlock, James G. Robertson, J. J. Roberts, William H. Priddy, E. McD. Coffey, James C. Nidelet, Robert A. Felton, James D. Wallace, John Wiatt, John M. Allen, Elias J. Bowen, G. M. B. Maughs, John G. Griggs, J. H. Calvert, S. E. Chaillé, John R. Conway, James H. Swindells, David S. Williams, W. F. Besselien, John H. Gaines, A. B. Hoy, R. L. Talbott, George W. Taylor, L. Fromm, W. E. Buie, A. F. Watson, W. F. Westmoreland, D. H. Morrison, G. E. Gordon, D. A. Kinchloe, D. C. Montgomery, J. F. Harrington, James S. Oliver, B. F. Lackey, W. M. Compton, R. P. Bateman, James T. Scott, H. Hinkley, D. H. Strode, J. N. M. Lynch, Thomas Rivers, A. Rhea, W. B. Harvey, F. E. Daniel, T. C. S. Whitsitt, S. H. Rushing, C. E. Michel, A. A. Johnston, W. L. Nichol, E. H. C. Bailey, William M. Cole, C. W. Taliaferro, W. S. Leake, C. M. Taylor, L. A. Dickson, S. W. Vaughan, Josiah S. White, W. R. Walker, John D. Collins, B. A. Jandon, E. J. Beall, C. O. Kurtman, Angus G. Shaw, to be surgeons; Davis Lemuel Darden, Edmund Strudwick, Sam. McK. Gladney, Russell McCord, Jones C. Abernathy, James Augustus Tillman, Job S. Weatherly, William B. Bonsall, Robert Green Murphy, George F. Hand, Walker Curry, John F. Blevins, C. C. Sherard, Benjamin Hardin Thomas, James W. Singleton, James L. Cunningham, John C. Whiting, W. T. Sawyer, James R. Slayton, James M. Silliman, Jesse Williams Hill, Jerome Cochran, R. H. Nisbet, A. Van Woolverton, John N. Holman, George Huggins Fowler, Edward M. Vasser, John M. Adams, Homer Lee Parsons, Samuel Henry Coffman, Emmett Williams, Patrick H. Hamilton, William Henry Cunningham, William A. Duggan, Lucien W. Robinson, James P. McCombs, William H. Lilly, Joseph N. Bynum, William C. Goodwin, Thomas H. Hollis, E. Miller, J. C. Henderson, S. W. Turpin, M. N. Phillips, J. G. Thomas, J. W. Eckford, A. R. Jones, Thomas M. Ragan, A. J. Sutherland, J. A. Stewart, W. B. Harrison, W. N. Ames, Alfred J. Chind, R. E. Jackson, R. F. Carlin, J. Huston, W. W. Wilkinson, C. E. Henderson, W. D. Boykin, J. L. Grace, Lee Shackelford, B. F. Field, William Banks, D. P. Fenner, H. W. Purnell, J. G. Montgomery, J. W. M. Shuttuck, J. W. Wingate, B. W. Lynn, Peter G. Snowden, James L. Pressley, Alexander W. Jones, Daniel S. Hopping, Hugh S. Paisley, T. F. Duncan, John P. Jones, A. D. Evans, J. S. Dillard, J. H. Gibbs, J. W. Thomson, David W. Johnston, V. T. Chew, John M. Henson, Albert L. Phillips, William J. Burt, Charles T. McAnalley, A. R. Canfield, John D. Airey, Richard B. Sadler, Robert E. Howlett, Eugene Henderson, J. F. March, Benjamin S. Gillespie, William F. Starks, Jacob H. Taylor, William A. Moss, E. J. Kirkscey, M. J. Rice, E. W. Jones, W. B. Field, F. D. Garrett, T. R. Trotter, W. T. Lockhart, Edward Latham, J. M. Haynes, E. O. Grigsby, A. R. Gourrier, S. W. Jones, J. H. Nuttall, R. W. Harper, W. G. Little, J. V. Harris, Henry J. Key, T. H. B. Williams, M. S. Waters, J. H. Ryland, W. R. Montgomery, Dudley W. Jones, T. A. Austin, L. W. Chamberlain, J. J. Ware, C. S. Reeves, John Murphy, W. T. Wills, P. W. Peeples, E. B. Freeman, O. V. Shurtleff, J. C. Adams, J. W. Lackey, T. J. McFarland,

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William Kerr, C. H. Tebault, John T. Young, P. S. Postell, R. L. Luckett, George W. Pierce, Hick Williams, R. J. Perry, W. H. Peebles, T. E. Prewitt, H. R. Garner, John R. Robinett, A. J. Smith, Alfred W. Perry, R. A. McMichael, Thomas J. Reid, S. W. Scales, T. R. Ashford, R. K. Gentry, A. L. Jarratt, R. H. McKay, F. C. Hober, Charles H. Green, J. R. McKinney, George W. Vasser, La F. Jackson, J. J. Bossard, Daniel A. Vogt, Robert T. Meriwether, E. G. Greenlee, W. W. Marston, James F. Colton, Richard Emory, R. S. J. Peebles, W. S. Armstrong, Henry H. Seargeant, John S. Richards, James J. Wynn, D. Price Gibson, John De Butts, David C. Jones, James G. Campbell, James C. Gee, Lafayette Yates, Jesse M. Pace, A. M. Clingman, Thomas S. Harris, John W. Talbot, James N. Thompson, John A. Dow, R. A. Watkins, Bennett H. Clark, Junius N. Bragg, Thomas W. Abington, Phineas J. Johnson, David R. Cole, W. H. Tobin, Wiley B. Greene, T. J. Dye, John W. Jones, William H. Park, E. W. McCrary, Andrew Gullett, J. H. South, Henry N. Austin, Thomas M. Matthews, Junius Terry, Samuel W. Jack, James A. Strahan, Jacob Cooper, Peter C. Osborne, D. M. Lackie, Isaac Folsom, D. M. Jordan, George W. Newman, A. L. Trigg, William L. Killiam, Charles Wheeler, E. Footman, William P. Head, John T. Hicks, John Jobe, Daniel F. Stewart, John J. Tobin, R. L. Boyce, Francis D. Cash, A. G. Quarles, N. H. Wynkoop, W. A. Carter, and H. M. Jones, to be assistant surgeons, reported, with the recommendation that said nominations be confirmed.

The Senate proceeded to the consideration of said report; and in concurrence therewith it was

Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to their appointment, agreeably to the nomination of the President.

Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred (on the 19th instant) the nominations of Lafayette McLaws, A. P. Hill, Richard H. Anderson, J. E. B. Stuart, Richard Taylor, S. B. Buckner, Jones M. Withers, to be major-generals; Joseph Finegan, James G. Martin, Thomas L. Clingman, Samuel Garland, jr., Wade Hampton, D. W. Adams, Louis Hebert, J. C. Moore, A. R. Wright, James L. Kemper, James J. Archer, George B. Anderson, B. H. Robertson, John R. Jones, St. John R. Liddell, N. B. Forrest, W. D. Pender, M. Jenkins, Martin E. Green, Fitzhugh Lee, Harry T. Hays, Johnson Hagood, A. G. Jenkins, W. E. Starke, William Barksdale, Edward D. Tracy, M. D. Ector, E. A. Perry, John Gregg, J. C. Brown, A. H. Colquitt, Junius Daniel, to be brigadier-generals; George G. Garner, George W. Brent, W. K. Beard, and H. W. Walter, to be lieutenant-colonels; William S. Barton, James Barbour, John T. Pickett, Henry E. Peyton, J. Lyle Clarke, R. L. Dabney, Thomas M. Jack, L. R. Page, Peter Mallett, Henry Bryan, James M. Goggin, James B. Dorman, William G. Swanson, G. M. Sorrel, J. W. Fairfax, Micajah F. Berry, Michael R. Clark, S. St. George Rogers, R. C. Morgan, W. T. Walthall, J. L. Cross, T. S. McIntosh, B. Sloan, William H. Ker, William M. Levy, E. Surget, J. W. Tayloe, Norman R. Fitz Hugh, Heros von Borcke, J. T. W. Hairston, T. B. Roy, Thomas S. Mills, Thomas J. Clay, T. J. Peyton, to be majors; John F. Lay, Mallory P. King, W. A. Smith, John M. Otey, Wilk. Call, Albert M. Lea, W. B. Myers, Walter Wrenn, Thomas Croxton, Kinloch Falconer, Dudley D. Pendleton, G. W. McCauley, Joseph L. Robertson, James C. McRae, R. R. Hutchinson, W. S. Winder, E. P. Bryan, R. H. Catlett, G. W. Alexander, Henry Wirz, James W. Pegram, Walter

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K. Martin, Robert H. Archer, A. S. Pendleton, W. T. Fry, Beall Hempstead, Thomas L. Farish, Tom P. Ochiltree, Wright C. Schaumburg, John S. Braxton, W. M. Reed, J. D. Bradford, D. H. Pool, G. Campbell Brown, D. W. Flowerrec, James M. Loughborough, Don P. Halsey, J. F. Belton, Welcome G. Clemons, Benjamin F. Phillips, Thomas H. Malone, Charles Pickett, Samuel T. Bayly, George Williamson, Theodore G. Barker, John G. Meem, jr., V. J. B. Girardey, S. A. McClung, Samuel A. Ashe, J. F. Girault, Walter E. Winn, L. S. Talbott, Thomas Rowland, James Benagh, W. R. Barksdale, Clifton H. Smith, John H. New, J. D. Darden, John Henry Brown, Charles G. Rogers, W. A. Goodman, H. H. Harrison, G. D. Bradford, James W. Mangum, J. H. Pearce, B. F. Blackburn, J. Dugué Ferguson, Nicholas Fitzhugh, Joseph Manigault, C. A. Seabrook, W. F. Nance, Edmund H. Cummins, W. N. Starke, R. W. Wooley, F. T. Hawks, Edward White, C. M. Selph, D. M. Du Bose, to be captains; Thomas J. Turner, John M. Wiley, James L. Fraser, Joseph C. Habersham, John H. Maury, Alcée Dupré, A. N. T. Beauregard, Edward R. Tarver, James D. Darden, James D. Gist, Reuben W. Blackwell, George W. Peterkin, A. H. Todd, B. F. Hudgins, John C. Taylor, E. P. Barbour, R. W. Brown, George H. Caperton, James A. Reid, W. N. Wellington, Oliver H. Thomas, D. P. Buckner, Philip T. Sutton, John J. Wise, Benjamin E. Benton, Robert A. Hatcher, W. T. Blakemore, Edmond B. Briggs, Randolph H. McKim, Hugh M. Nelson, H. P. Wallace, J. Cabell Breckinridge, T. S. B. Tucker, Murray F. Taylor, Maurice H. Garland, A. S. Hartridge, Francis Carter, George W. Clayton, William M. Davidson, J. Rutledge Finegan, William Yerger, A. H. Sevier, E. R. Baird, Leonard H. Mangum, C. D. Myers, S. M. Hyams, A. N. Parker, J. R. Jones, Rufus Shoemaker, Dwight Martin, Elliott Johnston, P. E. Bonford, M. D. Bringier, Joseph G. Morrison, Robert W. Anderson, Thomas S. Hardee, Edward Scott, Charles M. Harper, J. H. Linebough, Henry C. Lee, R. Channing Price, William Hazlehurst, J. W. Jamison, Joseph E. Dwyer, Edward Cantwell, R. P. Duncan, Jacob Shepperd, Francis von Phul, to be aids-de-camp, with the rank of first lieutenant; reported, with recommendation that said nominations be confirmed.

The Senate proceeded to the consideration of said report; and

On motion by Mr. Semmes,

Ordered, That it be postponed till to-morrow.

The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. N. Harrison, his Secretary:

Richmond, Va., September 26, 1862.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

I have the honor to request that the name of Samuel G. Ashe, nominated in my message of the 15th instant, to be assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of captain, may be changed to Samuel A. Ashe.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

The message was read.

Ordered, That the correction be made.

The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. N. Harrison, the Secretary:

Richmond, Va., September 26, 1862.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

I have the honor to request you to return to me the nomination of D. H. Cooper, to be Superintendent of Indian Affairs.

JEFF'N DAVIS.

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The message was read; and

On motion by Mr. Mitchel,

Ordered, That said nomination be returned.

The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. N. Harrison, the Secretary:

Richmond Va., September 26, 1862.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

I nominate the officers on the accompanying list to the rank affixed to their names, respectively, agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Confederate States of America, War Department,
Richmond, September 6, 1862.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America:

Brigade quartermasters, with the rank of major.
• A. H. McLaws, to take rank April 23, 1862, Georgia.
• Hugh M. King, to take rank April 24, 1862, Georgia.
• J. F. Simmons, to take rank April 28, 1862, North Carolina.
• John C. Page, to take rank April 29, 1862, Virginia.
• R. T. Taylor, to take rank April 23, 1862, Virginia.
• Charles K. Mallory, to take rank April 29, 1862, Alabama.
• T. Lanson Barrand, to take rank April 30, 1862, Virginia.
• W. T. Sutherlin, to take rank May 12, 1862, Alabama.
• Barna McKinne, to take rank May 1, 1862, Alabama.
• B. F. Jones, to take rank May 8, 1862, Alabama.
• H. C. Deshields, to take rank May 1, 1862, Kentucky.
• Charles Russell, to take rank May 1, 1862, Texas.
• William Carrere, to take rank May 19, 1862, Missouri.
• John B. Prados, to take rank May 15, 1862, Louisiana.
• O. P. Chaffie, to take rank April 24, 1862, Virginia.
• William McMinn, to take rank May 26, 1862, Alabama.
• G. W. Triplett, to take rank April 25, 1862, Kentucky.
• W. F. Hawes, to take rank May 5, 1862, Kentucky.
• N. M. Tannor, to take rank May 26, 1862, Virginia.
• Charles S. Carrington, to take rank June 6, 1862, Virginia.
• William H. Gibbons, to take rank June 11, 1862, Georgia.
• N. W. Crisler, to take rank June 13, 1862, Virginia.
• Sam. Hardin Hairston, to take rank June 17, 1862, Virginia.
• George Johnston, to take rank June 17, 1862, Virginia.
• James C. Bryan, to take rank June 11, 1862, Alabama.
• S. P. Mitchell, to take rank May 5, 1862, Alabama.
• William G. King, to take rank May 13, 1862, Texas.
• H. H. Selden, to take rank June 18, 1862, Virginia.
• George A. Turner, to take rank June 25, 1862, Missouri.
• E. Carrington Cabell, to take rank June 25, 1862, Missouri.
• M. B. McMicken, to take rank April 23, 1862, Florida.
• John H. Crump, to take rank April 23, 1862, Arkansas.
• John R. Throckmorton, to take rank May 1, 1862, Kentucky.
• J. J. Busby, to take rank May 1, 1862, Arkansas.
• Jos. A. Engelhard, to take rank June 10, 1862, North Carolina.
• William M. Payne, to take rank June 18, 1862, Virginia.
• William F. Haines, to take rank May 14, 1862, Missouri.
• John E. Davis, to take rank June 1, 1862, Georgia.
• John G. Pierce, to take rank April 23, 1862, Tennessee.
• James D. Maney, to take rank May 12, 1862, Tennessee.
• Henry W. Williams, to take rank June 9, 1862, Virginia.
• Thomas M. Le Baron, to take rank May 1, 1862, South Carolina.
• Robert B. Hurt, to take rank March 16, 1862, Mississippi.
• Emile La Sere, to take rank June 1, 1862, Louisiana.
• Randolph H. Dyer, to take rank May 17, 1862, Missouri.
• John Ambler, to take rank June 27, 1862, Virginia.
• N. E. Scales, to take rank June 13, 1862, North Carolina.

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• B. S. Thompson, to take rank May 13, 1862, Virginia.
• J. W. Patton, to take rank May 12, 1862, Florida.
• J. A. Landry, to take rank June 18, 1862, Louisiana.
• E. C. Simkins, to take rank July 12, 1862, Florida.
• P. S. Kinnard, to take rank July 10, 1862, South Carolina.
• H. M. Bell, to take rank July 10, 1862, Virginia.
• L. S. Scruggs, to take rank July 14, 1862, Mississippi.
• William McLaughlin, to take rank July 28, 1862, Virginia.
• C. L. Goodwin, to take rank July 29, 1862, South Carolina.
• E. A. Banks, to take rank July 26, 1862, Louisiana.
• R. L. McWhorter, to take rank August 6, 1862, Georgia.
• Elliott M. Braxton, to take rank August 10, 1862, Missouri.
• E. F. Paxton, to take rank August 4, 1862, Virginia.
• W. H. Haynes, to take rank August 12, 1862, Mississippi.
• Josephus Guthrie, to take rank August 2, 1862, Georgia.
• Livingston Mims, to take rank July 19, 1862, Mississippi.
• John B. Cary, to take rank August 16, 1862, Virginia.
• Rice W. Payne, to take rank July 28, 1862, Virginia.
• Thomas Higham, to take rank July 24, 1862, South Carolina.
• James N. Edmondston, to take rank May 9, 1862, North Carolina.
• D. W. Hinkle, to take rank May 13, 1862, Alabama.
• A. Gordon, to take rank June 1, 1862, North Carolina.

Assistant quartermasters, with the rank of captain.
• George Walker, to take rank April 23, 1862, Arkansas.
• N. A. Birge, to take rank April 23, 1862, Texas.
• John C. Ransom, to take rank April 23, 1862, Alabama.
• B. P. Roy, to take rank April 23, 1862, Tennessee.
• T. O. Byrd, to take rank April 23, 1862, Mississippi.
• Thomas P. Johnson, to take rank April 23, 1862, Tennessee.
• O. T. Gibbes, to take rank April 23, 1862, Alabama.
• Robert Payne, to take rank April 23, 1862, Tennessee.
• James M. Danby, to take rank April 28, 1862, Arkansas.
• J. W. Dennett, to take rank April 28, 1862, Louisiana.
• Robert T. Crouch, to take rank April 28, 1862, Virginia.
• John A. P. Bingham, to take rank April 23, 1862, Arkansas.
• J. J. Bailey, to take rank April 23, 1862, Alabama.
• John S. Rowzie, to take rank April 23, 1862, Virginia.
• Thomas Hayden, to take rank April 28, 1862, Alabama.
• W. H. Grier, to take rank April 23, 1862, Georgia.
• C. E. Thames, to take rank April 29, 1862, Alabama.
• John M. Witherspoon, to take rank April 28, 1862, Alabama.
• Edward Brown, to take rank April 23, 1862, Mississippi.
• S. F. McQueen, to take rank April 23, 1862, South Carolina.
• T. J. Noble, to take rank April 29, 1862, Virginia.
• Clarence Morfit, to take rank April 29, 1862, Virginia.
• R. O. Boggess, to take rank April 30, 1862, Missouri.
• R. C. McKinney, to take rank April 23, 1862, Georgia.
• Charles M. Williams, to take rank May 3, 1862, Tennessee.
• S. H. Nieman, to take rank April 23, 1862, Arkansas.
• Richard W. Gaillard, to take rank May 1, 1862, South Carolina.
• Charles Waite, to take rank April 23, 1862, Virginia.
• Robert W. Reid, to take rank May 6, 1862, Florida.
• Alexander Harwood, to take rank April 23, 1862, Texas.
• Herman Kenneworth, to take rank May 9, 1862, Alabama.
• Henry St. Paul, to take rank May 9, 1862, Louisiana.
• J. W. Hudson, to take rank May 1, 1862, Alabama.
• James W. Spratley, to take rank May 1, 1862, Tennessee.
• John W. Clarke, to take rank May 1, 1862, North Carolina.
• Thomas M. Harris, to take rank April 23, 1862, Georgia.
• R. P. McCormick, to take rank May 1, 1862, Alabama.
• L. S. Bolling, to take rank April 23, 1862, Mississippi.
• W. B. Lucas, to take rank May 1, 1862, Louisiana.
• Robert Martin, to take rank May 1, 1862, Alabama.
• Nicholas M. Long, jr., to take rank May 1, 1862, North Carolina.
• Benjamin E. Crane, to take rank May 15, 1862, Georgia.

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• R. B. Kyle, to take rank May 10, 1862, Alabama.
• L. E. Nee, to take rank April 23, 1862, Louisiana.
• Wiley F. Thomas, to take rank May 1, 1862, Virginia.
• W. A. Welch, to take rank April 23, 1862, Arkansas.
• Eugene Carrington, to take rank May 19, 1862, Virginia.
• Benjamin Morgan, to take rank May 1, 1862, Texas.
• H. A. Haralson, to take rank May 17, 1862, Alabama.
• William Goldsmith, to take rank April 23, 1862, South Carolina.
• W. W. Pierce, to take rank May 17, 1862, North Carolina.
• Morris R. Chew, to take rank April 23, 1862, Louisiana.
• R. H. Turner, to take rank May 20, 1862, Virginia.
• Joseph S. M. Davidson, to take rank May 1, 1862, Florida.
• Thomas R. Dashiell, to take rank May 1, 1862, Tennessee.
• John Decker, to take rank May 10, 1862, Louisiana.
• Theodore H. Kimball, to take rank May 23, 1862, Alabama.
• Thomas H. Johnston, to take rank May 23, 1862, Georgia.
• William Prescott, to take rank April 23, 1862, Texas.
• Tiglman S. Threadgill, to take rank April 26, 1862, Mississippi.
• Allen S. Turner, to take rank May 22, 1862, Georgia.
• W. G. Beauland, to take rank May 11, 1862, Mississippi.
• W. E. Gibbs, to take rank May 10, 1862, Mississippi.
• W. A. Courtenay, to take rank May 15, 1862, South Carolina.
• John Hughes, to take rank May 1, 1862, North Carolina.
• William F. Shield, to take rank May 26, 1862, Virginia.
• G. W. Crane, to take rank May 27, 1862, Georgia.
• James C. Davis, to take rank May 27, 1862, Tennessee.
• J. A. Montgomery, to take rank May 27, 1862, Alabama.
• Morris K. Simons, to take rank May 27, 1862, Texas.
• Wilson C. N. Carr, to take rank May 27, 1862, Virginia.
• E. Johnson, to take rank May 27, 1862, Alabama.
• R. B. Marye, to take rank April 25, 1862, Virginia.
• William T. Meade, to take rank June 3, 1862, Virginia.
• W. F. Avent, to take rank May 27, 1862, Mississippi.
• Francis B. Deane, to take rank June 3, 1862, Virginia.
• R. W. Hogan, to take rank June 4, 1862, Georgia.
• George W. Evans, to take rank April 23, 1862, Georgia.
• William R. Edwards, to take rank June 7, 1862, North Carolina.
• James A. Hill, to take rank June 6, 1862, Georgia.
• James L. Moore, to take rank June 7, 1862, Georgia.
• J. W. Johnson, to take rank April 23, 1862, Texas.
• Andrew McDonald, to take rank April 23, 1862, Virginia.
• William Colby, to take rank June 11, 1862, Texas.
• E. M. Stackpole, to take rank April 23, 1862, Texas.
• A. C. Smith, to take rank May 13, 1862, Texas.
• Samuel Prince, to take rank June 13, 1862, Mississippi.
• Julian Field, to take rank April 23, 1862, Texas.
• David Rhine, to take rank April 23, 1862, Texas.
• Asa U. Wright, to take rank April 23, 1862, Texas.
• William T. Scovell, to take rank June 5, 1862, Louisiana.
• George A. Hill, to take rank June 14, 1862, Georgia.
• William Fowler, to take rank May 1, 1862, Alabama.
• James L. McCluer, to take rank June 18, 1862, Missouri.
• Richard M. Graves, to take rank June 16, 1862, Virginia.
• John M. Allen, to take rank May 30, 1862, Virginia.
• James Bruce, to take rank May 30, 1862, Virginia.
• F. P. Turner, to take rank June 17, 1862, South Carolina.
• W. Warren Johnson, to take rank April 23, 1862, Arkansas.
• William J. Neary, to take rank May 12, 1862, Georgia.
• V. G. del l'Isle, to take rank May 1, 1862, Louisiana.
• Thomas Tabb, to take rank June 20, 1862, Virginia.
• Samuel D. Varner, to take rank May 14, 1862, Georgia.
• Lemuel H. Dawson, to take rank June 24, 1862, Georgia.
• H. S. Routh, to take rank June 24, 1862, Virginia.
• Gustavus Elgin, to take rank June 24, 1862, Missouri.
• John Kirkland, jr., to take rank June 24, 1862, North Carolina.
• W. W. Coke, to take rank May 20, 1862, Virginia.
• John T. Smith, to take rank June 16, 1862, Georgia.
• J. E. Adger, to take rank May 19, 1862, South Carolina.

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• George L. Thomas, to take rank June 1, 1862, Alabama.
• Thomas McGuire, to take rank May 10, 1862, Louisiana.
• W. J. Hughes, to take rank June 13, 1862, Louisiana.
• John B. Neal, to take rank April 23, 1862, North Carolina.
• John Barham, to take rank April 23, 1862, Tennessee.
• Thomas P. Brown, to take rank May 21, 1862, Alabama.
• N. B. Brown, to take rank June 1, 1862, South Carolina.
• B. F. Powell, to take rank May 28, 1862, North Carolina.
• John J. Jones, to take rank July 1, 1862, Georgia.
• James R. Boswell, to take rank June 1, 1862, Tennessee.
• William T. Hickle, to take rank April 23, 1862, Mississippi.
• Albert M. Rhett, to take rank July 1, 1862, Maryland.
• Edward W. Adams, to take rank June 1, 1862, North Carolina.
• W. Val. Sevier, to take rank May 27, 1862, Tennessee.
• Charles W. Henderson, to take rank April 28, 1862, Mississippi.
• S. W. Davitte, to take rank April 23, 1862, Georgia.
• J. M. Perry, to take rank May 17, 1862, Kentucky.
• Albert Danner, to take rank July 3, 1862, Missouri.
• E. D. Ricketts, to take rank June 14, 1862, Kentucky.
• J. E. McElrath, to take rank June 1, 1862, Tennessee.
• James W. Latham, to take rank May 1, 1862, Alabama.
• D. C. Turrentine, to take rank June 24, 1862, Alabama.
• George B. Buchanan, to take rank May 1, 1862, Georgia.
• George A. Proctor, to take rank June 1, 1862, Arkansas.
• M. J. Bearden, to take rank July 5, 1862, North Carolina.
• S. V. Gay, to take rank June 12, 1862, Georgia.
• R. P. Gantt, to take rank June 9, 1862, South Carolina.
• James W. Wilson, to take rank May 18, 1862, North Carolina.
• G. W. Shell, to take rank May 27, 1862, South Carolina.
• James J. Thomas, jr., to take rank May 16, 1862, North Carolina.
• Archibald M. Wood, to take rank April 23, 1862, Georgia.
• W. J. Stokes, to take rank May 15, 1862, Georgia.
• Andrew J. Miller, to take rank May 30, 1862, North Carolina.
• J. T. Brown, to take rank June 9, 1862, Georgia.
• John W. Brown, to take rank April 25, 1862, Georgia.
• S. G. R. Mount, to take rank May 27, 1862, North Carolina.
• J. H. Baker, to take rank May 24, 1862, Florida.
• Lewis C. Hanes, to take rank May 1, 1862, North Carolina.
• Robert Lapsley, to take rank May 31, 1862, Alabama.
• Archibald B. Seals, to take rank June 1, 1862, Mississippi.
• Richard H. Leonard, to take rank June 18, 1862, Georgia.
• J. Milton Moore, to take rank July 1, 1862, Georgia.
• H. C. Slemp, to take rank July 9, 1862, Virginia.
• A. Converse, to take rank April 27, 1862, Georgia.
• J. L. Agurs, to take rank April 23, 1862, South Carolina.
• William R. Beasley, to take rank May 19, 1862, North Carolina.
• John N. McDowell, to take rank June 7, 1862, North Carolina.
• J. D. Randall, to take rank April 23, 1862, Arkansas.
• A. D. Cazaux, to take rank April 24, 1862, North Carolina.
• Frederick Cox, to take rank May 4, 1862, Georgia.
• Edmund J. Camp, to take rank April 23, 1862, Georgia.
• Hammond Dugan, to take rank July 1, 1862, Virginia.
• William L. Johnson, to take rank June 2, 1862, North Carolina.
• William T. Eddings, to take rank June 12, 1862, Tennessee.
• Thomas P. Wallace, to take rank May 2, 1862, Virginia.
• J. L. Walthall, to take rank June 20, 1862, Alabama.
• J. P. Billups, to take rank June 22, 1862, Mississippi.
• J. M. Tate, to take rank May 5, 1862, North Carolina.
• Edgar L. Guerard, to take rank May 22, 1862, Georgia.
• John M. Martin, to take rank July 1, 1862, Alabama.
• R. C. Clark, to take rank May 1, 1862, Alabama.
• John A. Palmer, to take rank June 10, 1862, Virginia.
• George J. Arnow, to take rank May 20, 1862, Florida.
• L. N. Trammell, to take rank April 24, 1862, Georgia.
• John W. Hinson, to take rank May 20, 1862, North Carolina.
• Henry G. Davis, to take rank May 23, 1862, Alabama.
• J. M. Haley, to take rank April 23, 1862, Arkansas.
• John P. Warren, to take rank May 14, 1862, Alabama.

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• Thomas B. Holt, to take rank April 23, 1862, Tennessee.
• E. J. McIvor, to take rank May 22, 1862, Alabama.
• Robert L. Francisco, to take rank June 1, 1862, Virginia.
• J. W. McLure, to take rank June 1, 1862, South Carolina.
• Aaron P. Brown, to take rank April 23, 1862, Georgia.
• James E. Crosland, to take rank May 1, 1862, South Carolina.
• R. H. McCoy, to take rank April 23, 1862, North Carolina.
• J. M. McCorkle, to take rank June 6, 1862, North Carolina.
• J. M. Poteat, to take rank June 12, 1862, North Carolina.
• W. C. Butler, to take rank July 1, 1862, Missouri.
• J. W. McCurry, to take rank May 8, 1862, South Carolina.
• A. Monheimer, to take rank April 26, 1862, Louisiana.
• James S. Hart, to take rank June 1, 1862, Georgia.
• Thomas Kier, to take rank April 23, 1862, Missouri.
• Charles A. Redd, to take rank June 17, 1862, Alabama.
• E. P. Williams, to take rank June 1, 1862, Tennessee.
• David Meade, to take rank June 17, 1862, Virginia.
• Thomas R. Hines, sr., to take rank May 20, 1862, Georgia.
• J. F. Arnold, to take rank April 23, 1862, Mississippi.
• F. M. Wood, to take rank May 21, 1862, Alabama.
• James A. Marsh, to take rank May 6, 1862, North Carolina.
• R. C. McKinney, to take rank May 10, 1862, Tennessee.
• J. M. Springs, to take rank May 12, 1862, North Carolina.
• A. F. Strawn, to take rank May 1, 1862, Mississippi.
• William Blanchard Flowers, to take rank May 15, 1862, South Carolina.
• Henry C. Rockwell, to take rank May 1, 1862, North Carolina.
• S. F. Wall, to take rank May 28, 1862, Louisiana.
• Alexander E. Etheredge, to take rank May 22, 1862, Virginia.
• Alexander C. Morton, to take rank June 24, 1862, Georgia.
• Thomas A. Burke, to take rank April 30, 1862, Georgia.
• William M. Timberlake, to take rank May 2, 1862, Tennessee.
• J. W. Crocker, to take rank April 24, 1862, Tennessee.
• Thomas Clark, to take rank July 1, 1862, Virginia.
• John A. Fitzpatrick, to take rank July 3, 1862, Alabama.
• E. C. Milner, to take rank June 23, 1862, Alabama.
• R. P. Smith, to take rank May 5, 1862, South Carolina.
• E. H. Janney, to take rank April 23, 1862, Virginia.
• Lunsford P. Cooper, to take rank July 5, 1862, Mississippi.
• Robert A. Harris, to take rank May 24, 1862, Mississippi.
• Francis Rawl, to take rank June 27, 1862, Louisiana.
• James N. Moreno, to take rank July 16, 1862, Alabama.
• Samuel C. Muldon, to take rank April 23, 1862, Alabama.
• A. P. Corley, to take rank April 23, 1862, Texas.
• J. W. Mathews, to take rank July 3, 1862, Alabama.
• James J. Goodrum, to take rank June 9, 1862, Georgia.
• Robert H. Kingman, to take rank April 23, 1862, South Carolina.
• A. O. Houston, to take rank June 2, 1862, Alabama.
• John White, to take rank April 27, 1862, Alabama.
• James McMurray, to take rank May 5, 1862, Arkansas.
• Thad. C. Leake, to take rank May 15, 1862, Virginia.
• John N. Crockett, to take rank April 23, 1862, South Carolina.
• J. G. B. Grimes, to take rank July 18, 1862, North Carolina.
• J. N. Gilmer, to take rank July 1, 1862, Alabama.
• Andrew W. Williams, to take rank July 1, 1862, Alabama.
• J. J. Kaigler, to take rank July 1, 1862, Alabama.
• William Fellers, to take rank July 14, 1862, Virginia.
• M. H. Lowry, to take rank May 1, 1862, Mississippi.
• J. B. Whited, to take rank May 1, 1862, Virginia.
• Carey J. Hall, to take rank July 8, 1862, Virginia.
• Charles W. Matthews, to take rank July 7, 1862, Georgia.
• Daniel A. Conner, to take rank April, 24, 1862, Texas.
• B. F. Davis, to take rank June 1, 1862, Texas.
• Robert W. Graham, to take rank July 1, 1862, Texas.
• J. F. Mason, to take rank July 11, 1862, Virginia.
• J. Dickson Wilder, to take rank July 16, 1862, North Carolina.
• Edward Niles, to take rank May 16, 1862, South Carolina.
• Samuel O'Neill, to take rank June 2, 1862, Arkansas.
• Benjamin F. Smith, to take rank July 14, 1862, North Carolina.

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• James C. Hightower, to take rank June 28, 1862, Georgia.
• F. S. White, to take rank May 26, 1862, Arkansas.
• J. T. Bernard, to take rank July 13, 1862, Florida.
• T. C. Parks, to take rank July 1, 1862, North Carolina.
• George B. Holmes, to take rank July 4, 1862, Alabama.
• Thomas Shumate, to take rank August 1, 1862, Virginia.
• Richard Orme, to take rank July 1, 1862, Georgia.
• John S. Dancy, to take rank May 17, 1862, North Carolina.
• A. B. Fannin, to take rank August 4, 1862, Alabama.
• H. R. Shacklett, to take rank June 14, 1862, Tennessee.
• William G. McNeely, to take rank August 1, 1862, North Carolina.
• J. W. Young, to take rank April 23, 1862, Missouri.
• Robert P. Howell, to take rank July 21, 1862, Georgia.
• Charles P. Rogers, to take rank July 14, 1862, Alabama.
• Robert H. Footman, to take rank July 16, 1862, Georgia.
• Crawford H. Jones, to take rank August 4, 1862, Virginia.
• W. H. Bounds, to take rank July 26, 1862, Mississippi.
• J. H. Hamilton, to take rank July 16, 1862, Georgia.
• George B. Baker, to take rank July 15, 1862, North Carolina.
• W. T. Estes, to take rank April 23, 1862, Kentucky.
• F. Gregory, to take rank August 9, 1862, Virginia.
• William S. Sharpe, to take rank May 12, 1862, South Carolina.
• William L. J. Reid, to take rank July 1, 1862, South Carolina.
• Richard B. Winder, to take rank August 14, 1862, Maryland.
• E. T. Albertson, to take rank July 17, 1862, Virginia.
• B. F. Ficklin, to take rank August 13, 1862, Virginia.
• John Bonsal, to take rank August 14, 1862, South Carolina.
• Thomas J. Martin, to take rank May 24, 1862, Arkansas.
• Augustus F. Henderson, to take rank July 1, 1862, Virginia.
• William S. P. Mayo, to take rank August 7, 1862, Virginia.
• Silas Owens, to take rank August 2, 1862, Mississippi.
• W. C. Marrow, to take rank August 5, 1862, Virginia.
• T. W. Woodward, to take rank July 17, 1862, South Carolina.
• B. L. McInnis, to take rank June 12, 1862, Alabama.
• John C. Allen, to take rank May 14, 1862, Georgia.
• H. G. Trader, to take rank August 18, 1862, North Carolina.
• Samuel Du Bose, to take rank August 16, 1862, Louisiana.
• Hugh B. Walker, to take rank August 6, 1862, Virginia.
• Thomas R. Jones, to take rank August 7, 1862, Louisiana.
• Robert S. Bell, to take rank August 7, 1862, Virginia.
• Josephus Dotson, to take rank July 14, 1862, Arkansas.
• S. Simons, to take rank August 5, 1862, South Carolina.
• A. M. Truit, to take rank August 16, 1862, Texas.
• Alexander S. Jones, to take rank August 16, 1862, Mississippi.
• H. D. McDaniel, to take rank August 12, 1862, Georgia.
• William McMasters, to take rank August 15, 1862, Texas.
• William W. Old, to take rank August 7, 1862, Virginia.
• William Hollowman, to take rank August 16, 1862, North Carolina.

Brigade commissaries, with the rank of major.
• Thomas W. Francis, Alabama; John W. Brodnax, North Carolina; Thomas Laneghan, Arkansas; Joseph D. Cross, Tennessee; T. J. Elford, South Carolina; A. L. Dearing, South Carolina; Richard M. Robertson, Tennessee; William H. Price, Alabama; William W. Herbert, Virginia; Charles Howard, Maryland; W. F. C. Gregory, Virginia; Isaac M. Patridge, Mississippi; Julian J. Mason, Kentucky; Lewis Ginter, Virginia; Samuel Hale, jr., Virginia; Alexander H. Mason, Missouri; T. C. Elder, Virginia; E. B. Hill, Virginia; George Robertson, Georgia; Reid Sanders, Kentucky; S. M. Moorman, Kentucky; Fred R. Scott, Virginia; Julian A. Mitchell, South Carolina; E. M. Todd, Virginia; Francis W. Reid, Georgia; James W. Green, Virginia; John S. Mellon, Missouri; John R. King, Texas; D. F. Boyd, Louisiana; H. M. Miller, North Carolina; H. L. Biscoe, North Carolina; William W. Harvie, Virginia; Henry W. Tracy, Missouri; A. G. Anderson, Missouri; Alexander Evans, Kentucky; Joseph W. Bocage, Arkansas; Alexander B. Garland, Virginia; B. S. Crump, Virginia; Richard Bell, Georgia; Thomas J. Foster, Tennessee; George T. Howard, Texas; B. L. Wolff, Virginia; John B. Cobb, Georgia; Thomas Walton, Alabama; J. Righton Robertson, South Carolina; H. S. Hughes, Georgia; Lee M. Gardner, Louisiana; T. B. Reed, Florida; R. C. Lanford, Arkansas; W. E. Moore,

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  Georgia; William J. Baker, North Carolina; R. C. Badger, North Carolina; Charles F. Hanckel, South Carolina; John W. Mitchell, Virginia; Thomas Beggs, South Carolina; Morris K. Simons, Texas; Robert M. Tevis, Louisiana; W. J. Johnson, Virginia; James M. Quinlan, Missouri; J. H. Butt, Virginia; J. G. Newman, Virginia; R. C. Wintersmith, Kentucky; Joseph P. Carr, South Carolina; Henry S. Bowen, Kentucky; J. F. Cummings, Tennessee; B. H. Blanton, Florida.

Assistant commissaries, with the rank of captain.
• Martin F. de Gruyter, Virginia; Thomas J. Hughes, North Carolina; Timothy H. Kellogg, Virginia; Madison Edwards, Virginia; George L. Gillespie, Tennessee; Samuel M. Willard, Arkansas; Anderson S. Fry, Mississippi; M. J. Culpepper, Georgia; J. T. Doswell, Virginia; Jefferson J. Mallard, Texas; James T. Bacon, South Carolina; John D. Brandon, Alabama; Julius H. Halsey, Georgia; R. H. Alexander, Virginia; John J. Wheadon, Louisiana; James W. Moore, Georgia; Medicus F. Arnold, Georgia; Jacob E. Moose, North Carolina; Charles J. Gee, North Carolina; J. C. Francis, Alabama; Miller G. Lumpkin, Georgia; John Francis, Alabama; M. G. Alexander, Alabama; John Eager Howard, Maryland; Thomas J. Flint, Georgia; S. S. Rivas, Louisiana; A. M. Allen, Georgia; James W. Shields, Virginia; Henry Timanus, Florida; R. A. Williams, Florida; Alexander L. Smith, Florida; P. McCalebb, Mississippi; Isham H. Earle, Texas; William H. Ogbourne, Alabama; W. H. Dameron, Louisiana; J. P. Broadwell, Louisiana; Francis P. Gillespie, Mississippi; Middleton Conly, Mississippi; Tazewell Thompson, Virginia; T. C. Moore, Georgia; William H. Briggs, Virginia; W. Hutson Wigg, South Carolina; W. L. Norman, Georgia; Thomas H. Baker, Louisiana; W. L. Ligon, Georgia; John W. Thomas, Louisiana; W. J. Neville, Georgia; John M. Biggs, Tennessee; J. W. Callaway, Arkansas; A. T. Preston, Alabama; D. G. Pepper, Mississippi; J. A. Storey, Alabama; Marcus L. Wilson, Alabama; G. O. Janney, Alabama; S. B. McWilliams, Georgia; J. R. Wilson, Georgia; Robert L. Priest, Alabama; A. J. Dunn, Virginia; Benson J. Osborn, Texas; Orville Yerger, Texas; Arthur Parker, South Carolina; Rufus Ruth, Texas; A. Myers, North Carolina; C. J. McLaurin, Mississippi; Thomas E. Sherwood, Texas; George Newcome, Texas; James P. Ford, Texas; Samuel McComb, Georgia; Robert H. Sommerville, Alabama; John Lightfoot, Virginia; Daniel W. Langdon, Alabama; Wade A. Herren, Georgia; Jesse Norton, Missouri; John W. Walker, North Carolina; James R. Fraser, Georgia; Isaiah B. Smaw, Alabama; John H. Kennedy, Tennessee; Lucien D. Starke, North Carolina; Robert C. Topp, Mississippi; John W. Davis, Virginia; R. V. Boykin, North Carolina; James W. Butler, Georgia; John H. Love, Georgia; J. M. Boyles, Mississippi; R. M. Brown, Georgia; Thomas C. Fearn, Mississippi; T. H. McAllister, Alabama; Lee Carpenter, Louisiana; Richard C. Harding, Virginia; Adam R. Nesbit, North Carolina; Edward S. Parker, North Carolina; W. H. Kenner, Tennessee; W. K. Flowers, Mississippi; T. L. Russell, Arkansas; John E. Womble, Virginia; Isaac L. Pride, Alabama; W. F. Robbins, Alabama; W. J. Armstrong, Virginia; Joseph P. Phillips, Virginia; Thomas N. Hays, Alabama; H. H. Sams, South Carolina; S. S. Kingsbery, Georgia; R. W. Reid, Florida; Henry N. Hill, North Carolina; E. P. George, North Carolina; John W. Smythe, Arkansas; C. H. Parmelee, Georgia; William B. Davison, Georgia; Silas M. Colding, Georgia; Abram Cox, North Carolina; S. L. Love, South Carolina; John F. Croft, Georgia; William B. Cox, Georgia; Edward H. Dabney, Mississippi; V. M. Byrnes, Louisiana; J. K. Hope, Tennessee; W. C. Connell, Mississippi; Richard C. Badger, North Carolina; Richard M. Doss, Alabama; J. A. Moss, Louisiana; J. H. Flournoy, Louisiana; R. S. C. Herren, Alabama; E. L. Holcombe, Georgia; Winfield S. J. Lampkin, Alabama; P. A. Wellford, Virginia; William B. Williams, North Carolina; C. M. Godbold, Alabama; W. R. Holcombe, Alabama; Fred L. Smith, South Carolina; John W. Montgomery, Alabama; James Hazlett, Mississippi; William A. Teasley, Georgia; William H. Cain, South Carolina; George Coke, North Carolina; R. M. May, Tennessee; J. E. Mercer, Georgia; Peter Preer, Alabama; R. N. Lowrance, South Carolina; B. J. Martin, Mississippi; Wesley Mellard, Mississippi; John W. Durr, Alabama; G. Holmes, North Carolina; J. T. McFall, Florida; John Vincent Martin, South Carolina; George F. Webb, Mississippi; David W. Ketchum, North Carolina; George D. Old, Virginia; W. E. Ligon, Louisiana; John V. L. Rodgers, South Carolina; J. G. Clark, Georgia; James Fitz-James, Virginia; Washington F. Stark, Georgia; L. R. Shryock, Mississippi; Joseph R. Simmons, Georgia; Horatio G. Townsend, Florida; A. St. C. Tennille, Georgia; S. T. Stuart, Virginia; Benjamin F. Jones, Mississippi; Albert Siler, North Carolina; John W. Simmons, Alabama; William E. Anderson, Alabama; Claiborne Farish, Mississippi; B. C. Adams, Alabama; James M. Martin, Tennessee; John A. Bowie, South Carolina; Charles A. Lathrop, Alabama; G. C. Ball, Arkansas; Milton D. Norton, Arkansas;

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  Larkin H. Kerlee, Georgia; William E. Rutherford, Alabama; Benjamin W. Justice, North Carolina; E. G. McClure, Tennessee; G. D. Bustamente, Mississippi; Henry R. Marks, Texas; James H. Waters, Virginia; E. N. Peterson, North Carolina; William D. Miller, North Carolina; William A. Eliason, North Carolina; M. N. Shive, Texas; J. E. Ferguson, Texas; H. D. Brigham, Louisiana; Parker E. Brown, Georgia; P. L. Darling, Arkansas; Archibald N. McLarty, Georgia; James R. Bates, Alabama; Charles R. Railey, Louisiana; Henry W. Conner, North Carolina; Leroy M. Wilson, Virginia; S. A. Tarrant, Mississippi; D. W. Dodd, Arkansas; G. B. Mills, South Carolina; Pignal H. Brame, North Carolina; H. T. Baya, Florida; Richard Orme, Georgia; M. B. Swanson, Alabama; S. A. W. Righton, North Carolina; J. Whitfield Smith, Mississippi; Joseph P. Mason, North Carolina; Thomas Mahool, Georgia; J. E. Harper, Georgia; Z. W. Woodruff, Alabama; J. O. Moore, South Carolina; R. E. Mountcastle, Virginia; T. P. Eskridge, Virginia; G. M. McConnico, Alabama; Robert B. Trezevant, Arkansas; Robert Lilly, North Carolina; Charles Semple, Kentucky; H. W. Newman, Tennessee; D. D. Barr, South Carolina; Thomas J. Wofford, Georgia; John A. Harris, Texas; Len H. Norwood, Texas; Thomas Thompson, North Carolina.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEORGE W. RANDOLPH,
Secretary of War.

To His Excellency Jefferson Davis,
President, etc.

The message was read.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. N. Harrison, his Secretary:

Richmond, September 26, 1862.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

Agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, I nominate the officers on the accompanying list to the rank affixed to their names, respectively.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Confederate States of America, War Department,
Richmond, September 24, 1862.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America:

Colonels.
• Alexander McKinstry, Thirty-second Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Virgil S. Murphey, Seventeenth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Nathaniel M. Burford, Nineteenth Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• A. J. Lane, Forty-ninth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• Samuel McGowan, Fourteenth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• O. M. Roberts, Eleventh Texas Regiment, Texas.
• John B. Cumming, Twentieth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• Andrew J. May, Fifth Kentucky Regiment, Kentucky.
• J. Lucius Davis, Tenth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• W. J. Lawton, Second Georgia Regiment Cavalry, Georgia.
• L. T. Doyal, Fifty-third Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• William B. Ochiltree, Eighteenth Texas Regiment, Texas.
• J. J. McMahon, Sixty-third Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• Thomas Coke Bass, Twentieth Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• Richard Waterhouse, Nineteenth Texas Regiment, Texas.
• John C. Wilkinson, Eighth Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• Henry W. Hilliard, Hilliard's Legion, Alabama.
• J. Thompson Brown, First Virginia Regiment Artillery, Virginia.
• C. B. Harkie, Fifty-fifth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• Dixon Barnes, Twelfth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• Thomas L. Rosser, Fifth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• Henry M. Rutledge, Twenty-fifth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• W. T. Patton, Seventh Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• William T. Withers, First Mississippi Regiment Artillery, Mississippi.
• Martin J. Crawford, Third Georgia Regiment Cavalry, Georgia.

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• William E. Jones, Eleventh Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• A. W. Harman, Twelfth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• J. T. Holtzclaw, Eighteenth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Jesse A. Glenn, Thirty-sixth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• J. A. Jaquess, First Louisiana Regiment (Regulars), Louisiana.
• Samuel M. Wilson, Sixty-first Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• Richard F. Floyd, Eighth Florida Regiment, Florida.
• David Funsten, Eleventh Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• W. B. Colbert, Fortieth Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• Edward Higgins, Twenty-first Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• John L. Black, First South Carolina Regiment Cavalry, South Carolina.
• W. R. Shivers, First Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• F. C. Wilkes, Twenty-fourth Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• G. W. Carter, Twenty-first Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• C. C. Gillespie, Twenty-fifth Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• A. C. Wood, Fourteenth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Thomas H. Hunt, Ninth Kentucky Regiment, Kentucky.
• Jerome B. Robertson, Fifth Texas Regiment, Texas.
• J. C. G. Key, Fourth Texas Regiment, Texas.
• Henry Forno, Fifth Louisiana, Regiment, Louisiana.
• H. B. Lyon, Eighth Kentucky Regiment, Kentucky.
• A. E. Reynolds, Twenty-sixth Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• Adolphus A. Hughes, Twenty-seventh Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• John B. Palmer, Fifty-eighth North Carolina Regiment (Partisan Rangers), North Carolina.
• Dennis D. Ferebee, Fifty-ninth North Carolina Regiment (Partisan Rangers), North Carolina.
• Charles T. Ketchum, Thirty-eighth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• F. W. Kilpatrick, Regiment Palmetto Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
• A. Coward, Fifth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• John V. Moore, Second South Carolina Regiment Rifles, South Carolina.
• M. G. Harman, Fifty-second Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• W. Allen Parham, Forty-first Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• William P. Barclay, Twenty-third Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• R. T. W. Duke, Forty-sixth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• S. W. Fisk, Twenty-fifth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• J. B. Cooke, Fifty-ninth Tennessee Regiment, Tennessee.
• T. V. Williams, Thirty-seventh Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• E. T. H. Warren, Tenth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• H. B. Strong, Sixth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• William H. Browne, Forty-fifth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• T. N. Waul, Waul's Texas Legion, Texas.
• Henry Gray, Twenty-eighth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• Robert H. Cowan, Eighteenth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• H. P. Johnson, Twentieth Arkansas Regiment, Arkansas.
• B. H. Jones, Sixtieth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• Francis T. Nicholls, Fifteenth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• A. T. Rainey, First Texas Regiment, Texas.
• Paul F. Faison, Fifty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• Hugh R. Miller, Forty-second Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• J. A. Orr, Thirty-first Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• R. G. A. Love, Sixty-second North Carolina Regiment (Partisan Rangers), North Carolina.

Lieutenant-colonels.
• Edward P. Holcombe, Seventeenth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Benjamin W. Watson, Nineteenth Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• Seaborn M. Manning, Forty-ninth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• R. P. Blount, Ninth Alabama Battalion, Alabama.
• A. J. Coupland, Eleventh Texas Regiment, Texas.
• John A. Jones, Twentieth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• Arthur Hood, Second Georgia Regiment Cavalry, Georgia.
• John McEnery, Fourth Louisiana Battalion, Louisiana.
• E. B. White, Palmetto Battalion, South Carolina Artillery, South Carolina.
• W. E. Pinkney, Eighth Louisiana Battalion, Louisiana.
• G. W. Gordon, Eleventh Tennessee Regiment, Tennessee.
• James G. Cain, Twenty-eighth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.

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• W. D. Simpson, Fourteenth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• Thomas Sloan, Fifty-third Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• David B. Culberson, Eighteenth Texas Regiment, Texas.
• D. C. Dunn, Sixty-third Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• A. J. Fowler, Twentieth Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• L. J. Parr, Thirty-eighth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• R. H. Graham, Nineteenth Texas Regiment, Texas.
• A. McNeill, Eighth Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• Jack Thorington, Hilliard's Legion, Alabama.
• Lewis M. Coleman, First Virginia Regiment Artillery, Virginia.
• A. W. Persons, Fifty-fifth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• Cadwalader Jones, Twelfth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• Randolph Harrison, Fourth Virginia Regiment Artillery, Virginia.
• Henry Clay Pate, Fifth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• Henry P. Thomas, Sixteenth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• S. C. Bryson, Twenty-fifth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• C. C. Flowerree, Seventh Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• James P. Parker, First Mississippi Regiment Artillery, Mississippi.
• J. W. Bradley, Thirty-fourth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• Joseph Wasden, Twenty-second Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• William H. Betts, Thirteenth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Hiram Hawkins, Fifth Kentucky Regiment, Kentucky.
• R. H. Dulany, Eleventh Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• R. H. Burks, Twelfth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• John B. Palmer, Fifth North Carolina Battalion (Partisan Rangers), North Carolina.
• Alexander M. Wallace, Thirty-sixth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• J. C. Phillips, Thirteenth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• William F. Niemeyer, Sixty-first Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• J. H. Wingfield, Ninth Louisiana Battalion (Partisan Rangers), Louisiana.
• F. H. Farrar, jr., First Louisiana Regiment (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• Bolling Hall, jr., Hilliard's Alabama Legion, Alabama.
• John W. A. Sanford, Hilliard's Alabama Legion, Alabama.
• P. J. Sinclair, Fifth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• M. S. Langhorne, Eleventh Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• John M. Pons, Eighth Florida Regiment, Florida.
• J. A. P. Campbell, Fortieth Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• J. D. Twiggs, First South Carolina Regiment Cavalry, South Carolina.
• M. Nolan, First Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• R. R. Neyland, Twenty-fourth Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• D. C. Giddings, Twenty-first Texas Regiment, Texas.
• J. C. Upton, Fifth Texas Regiment, Texas.
• B. F. Carter, Fourth Texas Regiment, Texas.
• W. T. Dean, Fifth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• Edward Ivy, Twenty-first Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• F. M. Boone, Twenty-sixth Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• James Jackson, Twenty-seventh Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Z. S. McGruder, Tenth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• William W. Proffitt, Fifty-eighth North Carolina Regiment (Partisan Rangers), North Carolina.
• H. B. Granbury, Seventh Texas Regiment, Texas.
• A. R. Lankford, Thirty-eighth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Bolling H. Holt, Thirty-fifth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• T. H. Boggs, Second South Carolina Regiment Rifles, South Carolina.
• Jos. P. Minetree, Forty-first Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• James H. Skinner, Fifty-second Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• T. Stobo Farrow, Thirteenth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• Emory F. Best, Twenty-third Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• R. Harrison, Forty-sixth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• F. M. Nix, Sixteenth Georgia Battalion (Partisan Rangers), Georgia.
• J. C. Lewis, Twenty-fifth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• W. L. Eakin, Fifty-ninth Tennessee Regiment, Tennessee.
• J. F. Terry, Thirty-seventh Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• S. T. Walker, Tenth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• D. B. Penn, Seventh Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• Nat. Offutt, Sixth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• W. P. Winans, Nineteenth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.

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• Jefferson M. Lamar, Cobb's Georgia Legion, Georgia.
• P. H. Nelson, Seventh South Carolina Battalion, South Carolina.
• Edwin H. Harman, Forty-fifth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• J. D. Shelley, Eleventh Louisiana Battalion, Louisiana.
• B. Timmons, Waul's Texas Legion, Texas.
• Philip Cook, Fourth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• William Walker, Twenty-eighth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• Edward McCrady, jr., First South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• James R. Howard, Eleventh Alabama Battalion Cavalry, Alabama.
• Thomas J. Purdie, Eighteenth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• James H. Fletcher, Twentieth Arkansas Regiment, Arkansas.
• St. George Tucker, Fifteenth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• J. C. Summers, Sixtieth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• Edmund Pendleton, Fifteenth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• H. K. Aiken, Sixteenth South Carolina Battalion (Partisan Rangers), South Carolina.
• P. A. Work, First Texas Regiment, Texas.
• Thomas W. Hooper, Twenty-first Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• G. Gratiott Luke, Fifty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• Hillery Moseley, Forty-second Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• G. Wesley Clayton, Sixty-second North Carolina Regiment (Partisan Rangers), North Carolina.

Majors.
• Thomas J. Burnett, Seventeenth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• John H. Caldwell, Tenth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Joel T. Daves, Nineteenth Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• Jonathan Rivers, Forty-ninth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• W. D. C. Lloyd, Ninth Alabama Battalion, Alabama.
• N. J. Caraway, Eleventh Texas Regiment, Texas.
• Francis J. Boggs, Twelfth Virginia Battalion Artillery, Virginia.
• J. Wickham Leigh, Fourth Virginia Regiment Artillery, Virginia.
• C. A. Whaley, Second Georgia Regiment Cavalry, Georgia.
• Duncan Buie, Fourth Louisiana Battalion, Louisiana.
• Frederick N. Ogden, Eighth Louisiana Battalion, Louisiana.
• George A. Gordon, Thirteenth Georgia Battalion, Georgia.
• William Thedford, Eleventh Tennessee Regiment, Tennessee.
• Tully Graybill, Twenty-eighth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• W. J. Carter, Fourteenth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• James P. Simms, Fifty-third Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• David Dyer, Fifty-seventh Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• W. H. King, Eighteenth Texas Regiment, Texas.
• J. T. Montgomery, Fourteenth Georgia Battalion Artillery, Georgia.
• James M. French, Sixty-third Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• D. W. Broughton, Twentieth Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• E. W. Taylor, Nineteenth Texas Regiment, Texas.
• John F. Smith, Eighth Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• M. M. Slaughter, Hilliard's Alabama Legion, Alabama.
• Joel R. Griffin, First Georgia Battalion (Partisan Rangers), Georgia.
• Edgar F. Moseley, First Virginia Regiment Artillery, Virginia.
• Daniel S. Printup, Fifty-fifth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• B. B. Douglas, Fifth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• James S. Gholston, Sixteenth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• J. W. Francis, Twenty-fifth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• B. R. Holmes, First Mississippi Regiment Artillery, Mississippi.
• Lawrence D. Lallerstedt, Twenty-second Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• James Aiken, Thirteenth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Thomas Marshall, Eleventh Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• Thomas B. Massie, Twelfth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• W. Patrick, Seventeenth Virginia Battalion Cavalry, Virginia.
• George W. Connor, Fifth Kentucky Regiment, Kentucky.
• J. T. Rosser, Tenth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• William G. Delony, Cobb's Georgia Legion, Georgia.
• R. E. Burke, Second Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• W. H. Stewart, Sixty-first Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• W. H. McCorkle, Twelfth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• J. De Baun, Ninth Louisiana Battalion (Partisan Rangers), Louisiana.
• J. D. Waddell, Twentieth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.

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• A. A. Swindler, Seventh Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• William J. Turner, Eighth Florida Regiment, Florida.
• John H. Holt, Hilliard's Alabama Legion, Alabama.
• W. T. Stubblefield, Hilliard's Alabama Legion, Alabama.
• Hatch Cook, Hilliard's Alabama Legion, Alabama.
• W. N. Reeves, Hilliard's Alabama Legion, Alabama.
• James Strawbridge, First Louisiana Regiment (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• H. A. Herbert, Eighth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Enoch McDonald, Fortieth Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• M. T. Owen, First South Carolina Regiment Cavalry, South Carolina.
• James Nelligan, First Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• R. H. Anderson, First Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters, Georgia.
• Joseph Abney, First South Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
• B. B. Smith, Second South Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
• P. H. Swearingen, Twenty-fourth Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• B. D. Chenoweth, Twenty-first Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• J. N. Dark, Twenty-fifth Texas Regiment Cavalry, Texas.
• W. P. Townsend, Fourth Texas Regiment, Texas.
• T. F. Parker, Twenty-sixth Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• Edward McAlexander, Twenty-seventh Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• John C. Keener, Fifty-eighth North Carolina Regiment (Partisan Rangers), North Carolina.
• O. S. Jewett, Thirty-eighth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Thomas Thomson, Second South Carolina Regiment Rifles, South Carolina.
• John Grammer, jr., Fifty-third Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• R. D. Redden, Twenty-sixth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• John D. H. Ross, Fifty-second Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• William H. Etheredge, Forty-first Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• K. Otey, Eleventh Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• James H. Huggins, Twenty-third Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• Peyton Wise, Forty-sixth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• Samuel J. Winn, Sixteenth Georgia Battalion (Partisan Rangers), Georgia.
• W. M. Elliott, Twenty-fifth Virginia Battalion, Virginia.
• F. C. Zacharie, Twenty-fifth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• C. M. Alexander, Fifty-ninth Tennessee Regiment, Tennessee.
• H. C. Wood, Thirty-seventh Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• Joshua Stover, Tenth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• T. M. Terry, Seventh Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• William Monaghan, Sixth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• Luther J. Glenn, Cobb's Georgia Legion, Georgia.
• L. W. R. Blair, Seventh South Carolina Battalion, South Carolina.
• Alexander M. Davis, Forty-fifth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• J. H. Beard, Eleventh Louisiana Battalion, Louisiana.
• J. H. Nethercutt, Eighth North Carolina Battalion, North Carolina.
• Wilton L. Young, Tenth North Carolina Battalion, North Carolina.
• Leonidas Willis, Waul's Texas Legion, Texas.
• Allen Cameron, Waul's Texas Legion, Texas.
• W. H. Campbell, Palmetto Battalion Artillery, South Carolina.
• T. W. Pool, Twenty-eighth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• W. N. Estes, Eleventh Alabama Battalion Cavalry, Alabama.
• Forney George, Eighteenth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• Daniel W. Jones, Twentieth Arkansas Regiment, Arkansas.
• G. W. Hammond, Sixtieth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• R. A. Wilkinson, Fifteenth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
• T. C. Glover, Twenty-first Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• Matt. Dale, First Texas Regiment, Texas.
• Henry F. Schenck, Fifty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• William A. Feeney, Forty-second Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
• John V. Glover, Twenty-fifth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• B. G. McDowell, Sixty-second North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.

Captains.
• Tomlinson Fort, First Regiment Georgia Regulars, Georgia.
• J. B. Richardson, First Louisiana Artillery Battalion, Louisiana.
• W. K. Lane, Company North Carolina (Partisan Rangers), North Carolina.
• James Cooper, First Louisiana Regiment (enlisted men), Louisiana.

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• W. H. Sparks, First Louisiana Regiment (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• James W. Stringfellow, First Louisiana Regiment (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• Arthur Shaaf, First Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters, Georgia.
• William H. Ross, First Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters, Georgia.
• George C. Dent, First Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters, Georgia.
• Alfred L. Hartridge, First Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters, Georgia.
• Alfred Chisholm, First South Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
• Edmund Rhett, jr., First South Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
• James Lowndes, First South Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
• Paul H. Waring, Second South Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
• Joseph B. Allston, Second South Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
• Henry Buist, Second South Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters, South Carolina.

First lieutenants.
• J. M. Galbraith, First Louisiana Artillery Battalion, Louisiana.
• Samuel Hawes, First Louisiana Artillery Battalion, Louisiana.
• I. W. Brewer, First Louisiana Artillery Battalion, Louisiana.
• R. C. Kennedy, First Regiment Louisiana (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• William Quirk, First Regiment Louisiana (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• George W. Simpson, First Regiment Louisiana (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• Josiah Bedon, Second Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.

Second lieutenants.
• Thomas C. Beall, First Regiment Georgia Regulars, Georgia.
• Henry J. Porter, First Regiment Georgia Regulars, Georgia.
• A. C. Sorrel, First Regiment Georgia Regulars, Georgia.
• M. E. Croxton, First Alabama Artillery Battalion, Alabama.
• Andrew Hero, jr., First Louisiana Artillery Battalion, Louisiana.
• C. H. C. Brown, First Louisiana Artillery Battalion, Louisiana.
• J. D. Britton, First Louisiana Artillery Battalion, Louisiana.
• George B. De Russey, First Louisiana Artillery Battalion, Louisiana.
• Frank McElroy, First Louisiana Artillery Battalion, Louisiana.
• William M. Dwight, First South Carolina Artillery Regiment, South Carolina.
• Edmund P. Dargan, First Alabama Artillery Battalion, Alabama.
• F. H. Perkins, First Louisiana Regiment (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• W. E. Huger, First Louisiana Regiment (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• George Jonte, First Louisiana Regiment (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• George C. Cooper, First Louisiana Regiment (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• Bringier Trist, First Louisiana Regiment (enlisted men), Louisiana.
• William H. Grimball, First South Carolina Artillery Regiment, South Carolina.
• Walter B. Griffin, First Regiment Georgia Regulars, Georgia.
• Horace A. Crane, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
• J. Lewis Wardlaw, First South Carolina Regiment (enlisted men), South Carolina.

• SIGNAL CORPS.
  • Signal officers, with rank of captain of infantry.
    • William Norris, Virginia; W. N. Barker, Virginia; J. H. Alexander, Georgia; Thomas H. Clagett, Virginia; Elcon Jones, Virginia; M. T. Davidson, Virginia; J. H. Manning, Virginia; R. H. T. Adams, Virginia; R. E. Wilbourn, Mississippi; Richard E. Frayser, Virginia.
  • Signal sergeants, with rank of sergeant.
    • J. Bankhead, Mississippi; P. H. Vermilion, Virginia; Samuel Leidy, Virginia; Joseph Kenny, Virginia; E. S. Gregory, Virginia; G. Vermillion, Virginia; Richard D. Murphy, Mississippi; Hubert C. Ashbrook, Mississippi; William L. McLane, Mississippi; Charles V. Cosby, Virginia.
• NITER CORPS, UNDER ACT NO, 35.
  • Superintendent, with rank, etc., of major of artillery.
    • I. M. St. John, Georgia.

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  • Assistant superintendents, with rank, etc., of captain of artillery.
    • Richard Morton, Virginia; Frederick H. Smith, Virginia; R. H. Temple, Virginia; Isaac Read, Missouri.
  • Subordinates, with rank, etc., of first lieutenant of artillery.
    • Robert C. Morton, Virginia; James H. Matthews, Mississippi; James F. Jones, Virginia; Henry F. Reardon, Virginia; B. A. Stovall, Georgia; John W. Pearce, District of Columbia; R. Lamar Sprigg, Virginia.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. W. RANDOLPH,
Secretary of War.

To His Excellency Jefferson Davis,
President, etc.

The message was read.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. N. Harrison, his Secretary:

Richmond, Va., September 26, 1862.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

I nominate the officers on the accompanying list to the rank affixed to their names, respectively, agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Confederate States of America, War Department,
Richmond, September 16, 1862.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America.

Colonels.
• M. C. Butler, Second South Carolina Regiment Cavalry, South Carolina.
• W. H. Stiles, Sixtieth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• William B. Ball, Fifteenth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• Charles H. Simonton, Twenty-fifth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• John T. Morgan, Fifty-first Alabama Regiment (Partisan Rangers), Alabama.

Lieutenant-colonels.
• Frank Hampton, Second South Carolina Regiment Cavalry, South Carolina.
• John S. Garvin, Twenty-sixth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• Joel R. Griffin, Fifteenth Georgia Battalion, Georgia.
• B. R. Linkons, Thirty-sixth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• C. E. Lightfoot, Artillery, North Carolina.
• R. Augustus Bailey, Fourteenth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• Thomas J. Berry, Sixtieth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• Philip Cook, Fourth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• John Critcher, Fifteenth Virginia Cavalry, Virginia.
• George N. Folk, Seventh North Carolina Battalion, North Carolina.
• John G. Pressley, Twenty-fifth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.

Majors.
• William McLaughlin, of Artillery, Virginia.
• W. H. Hundley, Twelfth Alabama Battalion, Alabama.
• Charles T. Goode, Nineteenth Georgia Battalion, Georgia.
• T. J. Lipscomb, Second South Carolina Regiment Cavalry, South Carolina.
• Charles C. Jones, of Artillery, Georgia.
• George Jackson, Fourteenth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, Virginia.
• L. F. Terrell, of Artillery, Virginia.
• Melancthon Smith, of Artillery, Mississippi.
• John Pelham, of Artillery, Virginia.
• H. A. Edmundson, Twenty-seventh Virginia Battalion, Virginia.
• J. M. Mayo, Fifty-ninth North Carolina Regiment (Partisan Rangers), North Carolina.

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• Edgar Burroughs, Fifteenth Virginia Cavalry, Virginia.
• John V. Glover, Twenty-fifth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• James B. Anderson, First Louisiana Regiment Artillery, Louisiana.

Brigade quartermasters, with the rank of major.
• B. S. Thompson, Virginia; W. S. Wood, Virginia; R. P. Waller, Virginia; J. G. Paxton, Virginia; F. W. Dillard, Georgia; G. B. Lartigue, South Carolina; Huston Estill, Louisiana; R. H. Carter, Virginia; Edward Crutchfield, Kentucky; Thomas D. Hamilton; John H. Parkhill, Maryland; John F. Whitfield, Virginia; John D. Adams, Arkansas.

Brigade commissaries, with rank of major.
• F. M. Spencer; R. G. Hay, South Carolina; Baxter J. Butler, Tennessee; George L. Gillespie; H. Brownson Smith, Tennessee; Beverly C. Kennedy, Louisiana.

• ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.
  • Captains.
    • Green Peyton, Alabama; P. K. Molony, South Carolina; Seaton Gales, North Carolina; J. William Riely, Virginia; James M. Pepper, South Carolina; C. H. Gordon, Virginia.
  • Aids-de-camp, with the rank of first lieutenant.
    • J. A. Barksdale, Mississippi; Charles L. Mathews, Florida; John D. Myrick, Florida; J. N. Galleher, Kentucky; B. Martin, South Carolina; T. G. Pollock, Louisiana.
  • Assistant quartermasters, with the rank of captain.
    • F. A. Briscoe.
    • N. P. Carriker, Third Georgia Regiment Cavalry, Georgia.
    • Thomas J. Charlton, Fifty-fourth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
    • Thomas B. Gowan, Second Battalion Georgia Cavalry, Georgia.
    • James Goode, Nineteenth Georgia Battalion, Georgia.
    • William Lindsay, Seventh Kentucky Regiment, Kentucky.
    • H. B. Adams, Waul's Texas Legion, Texas.
    • R. B. Haughton, Twelfth Alabama Battalion, Alabama.
    • H. J. Raphael, camp of instruction, Tangipahoa, La.
    • Andrew Sigourney, Virginia.
    • Thaddeus B. Starke, Twenty-fifth Virginia Battalion, Virginia.
    • John Whitchard, Tenth George Battalion, Georgia.
    • J. C. Green, Georgia.
    • Jack Hodges, Nineteenth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
    • W. T. Holderness, Seventh Confederate Regiment.
    • John B. Nelson, Eleventh North Carolina Battalion, North Carolina.
    • W. G. Magee, Thirty-ninth Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
    • James B. Bell, Forty-fourth Mississippi Regiment, Mississippi.
    • M. S. Munson, Waul's Texas Legion, Texas.
    • J. L. Gibbons, Eleventh Alabama Battalion, Alabama.
    • James B. Huggins, North Carolina.
    • J. J. Daniel, camp of instruction, North Carolina.
    • J. J. Allen.
    • William E. Clarke, Kentucky.
    • Wesley Price.
    • W. G. Bentley.
    • William J. Shelburn, Twenty-seventh Virginia Battalion, Virginia.
    • A. D. Fowlkes, Twentieth Arkansas Regiment, Arkansas.
    • J. B. McClendon, Twenty-seventh Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
    • Abraham Madden, Twenty-eighth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
    • Hamilton J. F. Coleman, Fifty-first Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
    • E. W. Herndon, Twenty-ninth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • J. Marshall Hanger, Seventeenth Virginia Battalion, Virginia.
    • J. S. Folk, Seventh North Carolina, North Carolina.
    • Richard Ward, Sixteenth South Carolina, South Carolina.
    • John W. Burriss, Twenty-third Virginia Battalion, Virginia.
    • A. G. Durkee, Tenth Texas Cavalry, Texas.

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    • George B. Barnes, Fifty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • E. J. Oliveras, Fifty-seventh Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
    • John R. Dunlap, Twenty-third Virginia Battalion, Virginia.
  • Assistant commissaries, with the rank of captain.
    • J. H. Frazier, Georgia; E. A. Chadwick, Louisiana; W. W. Thornton, Virginia; Miles P. Pegram, North Carolina; William Appleton, South Carolina; T. A. Cromwell, Tennessee; John M. Collins, Georgia; Thomas N. Britton, South Carolina; William A. Eliason, North Carolina; W. P. Hill, North Carolina; B. Shropshire, Texas; David S. Plemmons, North Carolina; M. L. Pritchett, Georgia; David Legett, South Carolina; A. W. Stokes, Mississippi; James F. Lyon; Alabama; John Reily, Texas; George T. Quillian, Georgia; Richard S. Harper, Missouri; A. C. Baird, Arkansas; William M. Peacock, Florida; B. J. Semmes, Louisiana; J. D. Imboden, Louisiana; William M. Byrd, Alabama; Joshua Bartlett, Mississippi; Thomas C. Halyburton, North Carolina; George W. Williamson, Tennessee; William H. Mott, Tennessee; G. L. Cope; James B. Taylor, Alabama.
  • Chaplains.
    • J. Monroe Anderson, South Carolina; S. M. Montgomery, Mississippi; William C. Meredith, Virginia; Dabney Ball, Virginia; Thomas D. Witherspoon, Mississippi; Samuel D. Stuart, Virginia; Silas H. Cooper, Florida; Frontis H. Johnston, North Carolina; James A. Cousar, South Carolina; W. A. Parks, Texas; Frederick Fitzgerald, North Carolina; N. G. Phillips, Alabama; J. W. Wilson, Alabama; C. H. Wilson, South Carolina; John B. Mouton, Mississippi; Samuel L. Russell, Alabama; James Nelson, Virginia; Thomas G. Lowe, North Carolina; William H. Armstrong, Alabama; T. W. Moore, North Carolina; E. P. Wilson, North Carolina; J. P. Garland, Virginia; Josiah Barker, Alabama; William G. Miller, Virginia; R. K. Hargrove, Alabama.
  • Adjutants, with rank of first lieutenant.
    • B. L. Moore, Louisiana; Andrew J. Liles, Georgia; John P. C. Whitehead, Alabama; C. McR. Weatherly, South Carolina; L. Ketchum, Tennessee; Emile P. Guillet, Louisiana; R. C. Saxon, Georgia; John E. Hart, Texas; John W. McCord, Georgia; James L. Gaines, North Carolina; Thomas A. Henderson, Tennessee; William B. Osborne, North Carolina; James M. Taylor, North Carolina; James T. Ware, Texas; O. Steele, Texas; George R. McKee, Georgia; J. H. Evans, Texas; W. L. Worsham, Arkansas; S. H. Pope, Mississippi; Charles F. Force, Alabama; George Freaner, Virginia; James Stephenson, Alabama; R. H. Henley, Alabama; W. D. Goggans, South Carolina; W. B. Vaughan, North Carolina; Edward J. Hale, jr., North Carolina; James M. Seeton, Texas; Clarence H. Ellerbe, Alabama; Walter McK. Clark, North Carolina; C. H. Roulhac, Kentucky.
• ARTILLERY, UNDER ACT NO. 85.
  • Captains.
    • S. C. Faulkner, Virginia; Thomas L. Bayne, Louisiana.
• ENGINEERS.
  • Captains.
    • Edward B. Sayers, Missouri; S. W. Steele, Tennessee; Thaddeus Coleman.
  • First lieutenants.
    • G. M. Helm, Mississippi; J. H. Toomer, Georgia; W. J. Morris, Kentucky; John W. Glenn, Texas; W. G. Young, South Carolina; John Ellicott, Maryland.
  • Second lieutenants.
    • W. A. Hansell, Georgia; John R. Key, Maryland; James Freret, Louisiana.
  • Second lieutenants of infantry.
    • A. A. Alston, First Alabama Battalion, Alabama.
    • R. A. Alston, First Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
    • S. C. De Pass, First Georgia Regiment, Georgia.

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    • Crawford Tucker, First Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
    • J. C. Clemson, First Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • M. Stuart, First Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • W. C. Simmons, First Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • A. B. White, First Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • E. P. Carter, First Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • J. G. Guignard, First Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • Charles J. Macbeth, Second Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • T. J. Dunovant, Second Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • Henry Seabrook, Second Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • William A. Boyle, Second Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • E. W. Fraser, Second Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • John H. Gardner, Second Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • N. Bayard Sadler, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
    • Alfred Bryan, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
    • M. Molina, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
    • Robert Wayne, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
    • R. Cuyler King, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
    • Henry Herrmann, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
    • George H. Johnston, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
    • Thomas A. Middleton, First Regiment South Carolina Artillery, South Carolina.
    • Benjamin C. Henry, Randolph Rangers, Georgia.
    • Alphonse J. Setze, Randolph Rangers, Georgia.
    • R. Yeadon Dwight, First South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
    • Vincent F. Martin, First South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
    • William C. Hallonquist, First Alabama Battalion, Alabama.
  • First lieutenants, infantry.
    • Charles S. Wylly, First Regiment Georgia Regulars, Georgia.
    • S. C. Boylston, First Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • William Elliott, First Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • B. G. Pinckney, First Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • E. H. Holman, Second Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • J. G. Huguenin, Second Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • Isaac Hayne, Second Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, South Carolina.
    • Benjamin H. Hardee, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
    • H. D. Twyman, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
    • J. L. Holcombe, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
    • S. W. Lawrence, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Georgia.
    • John N. Davies, Randolph Rangers, Georgia.
  • Captains.
    • G. W. Anderson, First Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
    • Edward C. Anderson, Randolph Rangers, Georgia.

I have the honor to be, respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. W. RANDOLPH,
Secretary of War.

To His Excellency Jefferson Davis,
President, etc.

The message was read.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. N. Harrison, his Secretary:

Richmond, September 26, 1862.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

Agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, I nominate the officers on the accompanying list to the rank affixed to their names, respectively.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Confederate States of America, War Department,
Richmond, September 24, 1862.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America:

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Brigadier-generals.
• William Steele, Texas; Francis A. Shoup, Florida; J. F. Fagan, Arkansas; William R. Scurry, Texas; Allison Nelson, Texas; Joseph R. Davis, Mississippi; William H. F. Lee, Virginia; William E. Jones, Virginia; W. E. Baldwin, Mississippi; John C. Vaughn, Tennessee; E. McI. Law, Alabama; W. B. Bate, Tennessee.

Colonels.
• J. J. Morrison, First Georgia Regiment Cavalry, Georgia.
• A. D. Smith, Twenty-sixth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• J. C. S. McDowell, Fifty-fourth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• David J. Bailey, Thirtieth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• C. J. Colcock, Third South Carolina Cavalry, South Carolina.
• H. M. Ashby, Second Tennessee Cavalry, Tennessee.

Lieutenant-colonels.
• A. R. Harper, First Georgia Cavalry, Georgia.
• Robert L. Doyle, Sixty-second Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• K. M. Murchison, Fifty-fourth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• Thomas W. Mangham, Thirtieth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• T. H. Johnson, Third South Carolina Cavalry, South Carolina.
• H. C. Gillespie, Second Tennessee Cavalry, Tennessee.

Majors.
• W. F. Rapley, Twelfth Arkansas Battalion, Arkansas.
• George W. Imboden, Sixty-second Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
• W. B. Tabb, Twenty-eighth Virginia Battalion, Virginia.
• S. D. M. Byrd, Twenty-sixth South Carolina Regiment, South Carolina.
• John H. Broocks, Twenty-seventh Texas Cavalry, Texas.
• A. Ellis, Fifty-fourth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
• James S. Boynton, Thirtieth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
• John Jenkins, Third South Carolina Cavalry, South Carolina.
• P. A. Cobb, Second Tennessee Cavalry, Tennessee.

Brigade quartermasters, with rank of major.
• J. E. Klumph, Missouri; W. K. Bennett, Arkansas; J. Wyatt Jones, Kentucky; George Whitfield, Virginia; Richard S. Cox, Virginia; Munroe Cheatham, Tennessee; W. A. Bradford, Kentucky; W. W. Pierce, North Carolina; W. D. Beard, Tennessee; George W. Winchester, Tennessee.

Brigade commissaries, with rank of major.
• W. C. Sibley, Georgia; J. L. Stockdale, Arkansas; W. H. Dameron, Mississippi; W. W. Guy, Tennessee; William H. Ross, Alabama.

• ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.
  • Majors.
    • Charles S. Stringfellow, Virginia; Guy M. Bryan, North Carolina; John H. Richardson, Virginia.
  • Captains.
    • D. W. Vowles, Missouri; W. T. Taliaferro, Virginia; John Ryan, South Carolina; John W. Lewis, North Carolina; John C. Burch, Tennessee; N. Collin Hughes, North Carolina.
  • Aids-de-camp, with rank of first lieutenant.
    • D. H. Hamilton, South Carolina; J. H. Lacy, Kentucky; Elijah Hawkins, Kentucky; Thomas B. Green, Missouri; George D. Wise, Virginia; R. W. Withers, Alabama; George M. Pillow, Tennessee; P. C. Warwick, Virginia; John F. Pargoud, Louisiana.

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  • Assistant quartermasters, with rank, etc., of captain.
    • W. H. Moore, Forty-fourth Tennessee Regiment, Tennessee.
    • C. W. Kennedy, Tennessee.
    • Marion C. Kiser, First Confederate Regiment, South Carolina.
    • Charles A. Bridewell, Seventh Arkansas Regiment, Arkansas.
    • Samuel C. Price, Eighteenth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
    • R. B. Johnston, Sixty-second North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • M. McCarthy, Eighth Confederate Regiment, Mississippi.
    • M. W. Page, Sixth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • William H. Northrop, Third North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • J. B. Sharpe, Tennessee.
    • Edgar Miller, Tennessee.
    • J. P. McKinnie, Louisiana.
    • F. D. Irving, Virginia.
    • S. M. Weakley, Twentieth Tennessee Regiment, Tennessee.
    • William S. Anderson, Sixtieth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
  • Assistant commissaries, with rank, etc., of captain.
    • Lewis W. Means, Ninth Texas Cavalry, Texas.
    • Fred. H. Sprague, Fifth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • Irby H. Boggess, Fifth Tennessee Cavalry, Tennessee.
    • Rodah Horton, Fiftieth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
    • William M. Lock, Sixty-second Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
    • C. P. Bryson, Sixty-second North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • William B. Fitzpatrick, Cobb's Legion, Georgia.
    • Jesse B. Lee, Eighth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • Charles A. Slaughter, Ninth Arkansas Regiment, Arkansas.
    • J. B. Smith, Twenty-seventh Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
    • W. S. Martin, Forty-fifth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • T. J. O'Keefe, Twenty-second Tennessee Regiment, Tennessee.
    • J. S. E. Summey, Eleventh North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • Samuel Newman, Nineteenth Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
    • William A. Peden, First South Carolina Cavalry, South Carolina.
    • W. G. Henry, Second Tennessee Regiment, Tennessee.
    • H. S. Bowen, Kentucky.
  • Chaplains.
    • A. G. Brewer, Alabama; W. R. Stoddard, Mississippi; William Price, Mississippi; M. B. Barrett, Virginia; John McGill, Virginia; William W. Pearson, Mississippi; T. Hodgson, Alabama; Ben. M. Miller, Tennessee.
  • Surgeons.
    • J. G. Johnston, George W. Henley, A. Snowden Piggot, T. J. B. Roemer; Jesse R. McAfee, Georgia; Charles M. Taylor, Joseph Sandek; John S. Sturry, Virginia; A. C. Randolph, George F. Carmichael, John B. Fontaine, P. B. McKelvey; E. Sheppard, Virginia; E. M. Watts, Georgia; A. Atkinson, Virginia; Frank Hawthorn; S. J. Farmer, Georgia; R. B. Gardner, Georgia; Richard O. Currey, W. A. Greene, Benjamin Franklin; J. A. Woodcock, Alabama; J. P. Du Val; James Purviance, Louisiana; W. R. Capehart; L. M. Austin, Mississippi; J. H. Foster, W. A. McPheeters, C. R. Thompson; L. U. Mayo, Virginia; William S. Love; N. W. White, Virginia; Charles H. Ladd; T. L. Ogier, jr., South Carolina; W. H. Amiss, Virginia; Edw. J. Rembert; Waddy Thompson, South Carolina; A. C. Smith; I. F. Pearson, North Carolina; W. T. Russel, South Carolina; W. A. Holt; W. B. Maney, Tennessee; W. L. Davis, Georgia.
  • Assistant surgeons.
    • G. W. Chisolm, Georgia; D. C. Diggs; William V. Bonner, North Carolina; W. T. Montgomery, John T. McDowell, John R. Coffman, J. F. Stinson; R. E. McNeil, Alabama; J. R. Boulware, South Carolina; A. C. C. Thompson, Georgia; J. W. Sharpe, Mississippi; B. S. Watkins; William C. Stewart, Alabama; S. H. Kenan, Georgia; B. W. Holcombe, Georgia; A. V. Budd, North Carolina; J. B. Pitts, Tennessee; W. R. Curtis, Louisiana; C. P. Goodall, Virginia; J. M. Thomason; T. M. C. Rice, Georgia; W. H. Price, Virginia; Zachary P. Weaver, William J. Jordan, I. Berger; John Minge, Virginia; William P. Young, Georgia; A. P. Collins.

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  • Adjutants, with rank and pay of first lieutenant.
    • George B. Hutcheson, Fourteenth Tennessee Regiment, Tennessee.
    • Henry T. Coalter, Fifty-third Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
    • M. Newman, Forty-ninth Georgia Regiment, Georgia.
    • Irvine L. Johnson, Sixtieth Virginia Regiment, Virginia.
    • P. H. Thrash, Sixty-second North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • L. L. Goodrich, Eighth Confederate Regiment, Mississippi.
    • Cornelius Mebane, Sixth North Carolina Regiment, North Carolina.
    • J. H. Brigham, Third Louisiana Regiment, Louisiana.
    • Josiah Horne, Thirty-fifth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
    • William J. Hale, Second Tennessee Regiment, Tennessee.
    • John T. Buckncr, Fiftieth Alabama Regiment, Alabama.
• COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT.
  • Lieutenant-colonel.
    • W. A. Broadwell, Mississippi.
• ARTILLERY.
  • Major.
    • George D. Alexander, North Carolina.

I have the honor to be, respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. W. RANDOLPH,
Secretary of War.

To His Excellency Jefferson Davis,
President, etc.

On motion of Mr. Oldham,

The Senate proceeded to consider the nominations of William R. Scurry and Allison Nelson; and

On the question,

Will the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of W. R. Scurry and Allison Nelson?

It was determined in the affirmative.

So it was

Resolved, That the Senate do advise and consent to the appointment of William R. Scurry and Allison Nelson, to be brigadier-generals in the Provisional Army, agreeably to the nomination of the President.

Ordered, That the residue of the nominations contained in the foregoing message be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. S. Harrison, the Secretary:

Richmond, September 26, 1862.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

I nominate the officers on the accompanying list to the rank affixed to their names, respectively, agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Confederate States of America, War Department,
Richmond, September 8, 1862.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America:

• ENGINEERS.
  • Captains.
    • John M. Robinson, to take rank May 15, 1862, Virginia.
    • William W. Blackford, to take rank May 26, 1862, Virginia.
    • George E. Walker, to take rank June 1 1862, South Carolina.

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    • John Grant, to take rank June 4, 1862, England.
    • A. H. Campbell, to take rank June 6, 1862, Virginia.
    • Henry T. Douglas, to take rank June 9, 1862, Virginia.
    • William F. Foster, to take rank August 2, 1862, Tennessee.
    • Charles T. Liernur, to take rank August 4, 1862, Alabama.
    • T. B. Lee, to take rank August 6, 1862, South Carolina.
    • Samuel R. Johnston, to take rank August 12, 1862, Virginia.
    • John A. Williams, to take rank August 16, 1862, Texas.
  • First lieutenants.
    • Robert M. Stiles, to take rank May 17, 1862, Georgia.
    • William E. Harrison, to take rank June 1, 1862, Virginia.
    • John F. Lanneau, to take rank June 4, 1862, South Carolina.
    • W. G. Bender, to take rank June 6, 1862, Maryland.
    • C. H. La Trobe, to take rank June 6, 1862, Florida.
    • John T. Elmore, to take rank June 6, 1862, Alabama.
    • Walter Izard, to take rank June 20, 1862, South Carolina.
    • J. Innis Randolph, to take rank June 24, 1862, District of Columbia.
    • John W. Green, to take rank July 15, 1862, Louisiana.
    • John B. Stanard, to take rank August 1, 1862, Virginia.
    • J. F. Steele, to take rank August 2, 1862, Alabama.
    • John Johnson, to take rank August 2, 1862, South Carolina.
    • Henry C. Force, to take rank August 6, 1862, Alabama.
    • Henry B. Richardson, to take rank August 6, 1862, Louisiana.
  • Second lieutenants.
    • W. T. Hart, to take rank June 6, 1862, Georgia.
    • Powell C. Johnson, to take rank June 23, 1862, Virginia.
    • Summerfield Smith, to take rank June 24, 1862, Virginia.
    • Charles S. Dwight, to take rank June 24, 1862, South Carolina.
    • W. G. Williamson, to take rank June 24, 1862, Virginia.
    • D. E. Henderson, to take rank July 11, 1862, Virginia.
• ARTILLERY--UNDER ACT NO. 359--PROVISIONAL CONGRESS.
  • Colonels.
    • S. Crutchfield, to take rank May 6, 1862, Virginia.
    • T. J. Page, to take rank June 13, 1862, Virginia.
    • H. C. Cabell, to take rank July 4, 1862, Virginia.
    • S. D. Lee, to take rank July 9, 1862, South Carolina.
    • William R. Boggs, to take rank July 14, 1862, Georgia.
    • Edward C. Anderson, to take rank July 9, 1862, Georgia.
    • Abner Smead, to take rank August 11, 1862, Georgia.
    • A. J. Gonzales, to take rank August 14, 1862, South Carolina
  • Lieutenant-colonels.
    • A. S. Cutts, to take rank May 26, 1862, Georgia.
    • T. L. Rosser, to take rank June 10, 1862, Louisiana.
    • J. C. Shields, to take rank June 20, 1862, Virginia.
    • H. Oladowski, to take rank May 1, 1862, Louisiana.
    • J. H. Hallonquist, to take rank May 1, 1862, South Carolina.
    • P. F. De Gourney, to take rank July 3, 1862, Louisiana.
    • R. L. Walker, to take rank July 3, 1862, Virginia.
    • C. E. Thorburn, to take rank August 1, 1862, Texas.
    • J. M. Maury, to take rank August 6, 1862, Virginia.
    • H. Clay Taylor, to take rank August 16, 1862, Missouri.
  • Majors.
    • B. W. Hunter, to take rank May 1, 1862, Virginia.
    • Joseph L. Brent, to take rank May 9, 1862, Virginia.
    • W. Richardson Hunt, to take rank May 17, 1862, Tennessee.
    • F. W. Smith, to take rank May 21, 1862, Virginia.

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    • William Nelson, to take rank May 26, 1862, Virginia.
    • Hilary P. Jones, to take rank May 28, 1862, Virginia.
    • A. H. Drewry, to take rank May 30, 1862, Virginia.
    • C. K. Huger, to take rank June 4, 1862, South Carolina.
    • M. B. Hardin, to take rank June 12, 1862, Virginia.
    • Alexander W. Stark, to take rank June 18, 1862, Virginia.
    • W. L. Robards, to take rank July 5, 1862, Texas.
    • J. A. De Lagnel, to take rank July 3, 1862, Virginia.
    • Delaware Kemper, to take rank June 25, 1862, Virginia.
    • William Leigh, to take rank July 12, 1862, Virginia.
    • S. P. Hamilton, to take rank July 1, 1862, Georgia.
    • Alfred R. Courtney, to take rank July 14, 1862, Virginia.
    • R. S. Andrews, to take rank July 15, 1862, Maryland.
    • Lindsay M. Shumaker, to take rank July 5, 1862, Virginia.
    • J. Floyd King, to take rank May 10, 1862, Virginia.
    • William E. Woodruff, to take rank April 23, 1862, Arkansas.
    • B. W. Frobel, to take rank July 20, 1862, Virginia.
    • Smith P. Bankhead, to take rank July 16, 1862, Kentucky.
    • Victor Sheliha, to take rank August 13, 1862, Louisiana.
    • J. J. Pope, to take rank August 13, 1862, South Carolina.
    • T. T. Teel, to take rank May 2, 1862, Texas.
    • John Pelham, to take rank August 9, 1862, Virginia.
• ARTILLERY--UNDER ACT NO. 85, APRIL 21, 1862.
  • Captains.
    • T. M. Bowyer, Louisiana; James Harding, Missouri; George W. Christy, Louisiana; Lawrence S. Marye, Virginia; Thomas H. Price, Virginia; Henry Myers, Alabama; J. W. Mallett, Alabama; W. Clark Kennerly, Missouri; A. W. Lawrence, North Carolina; C. P. Bolles, North Carolina; A. G. Brenizer, Missouri; Edward B. Smith, Virginia; F. W. Blount, South Carolina; T. R. Hotchkiss, Mississippi; J. T. Trezevant, Mississippi; P. B. Stanard, Virginia; C. C. McPhail, Virginia; George West, Louisiana; L. C. Leftwich, Virginia; Edward N. Thurston, Georgia; S. C. Faulkner, Missouri; John Esten Cooke, Virginia.
  • First lieutenants.
    • George W. Kerr, Virginia; James Pleasants, Virginia; William M. Archer, Virginia; Paul Hamilton, South Carolina; W. C. Duxbury, Alabama; James M. Garnett, Virginia; W. L. Randolph, Virginia; John T. Buck, Kentucky; T. D. Eason, South Carolina; Matthew P. Taylor, North Carolina; F. Lewis Marshall, Virginia; R. M. Cary, North Carolina; William H. Portlock, Tennessee; J. G. Reynolds, Georgia; A. Austin Smith, Virginia; John H. Chamberlayne, Virginia; George Duffy, Virginia; S. Schooler, Virginia; P. M. McClung, Tennessee; Thaddeus A. Smith, Alabama; Edward Barbour, Virginia; W. W. Elliott, South Carolina; James McHenry, jr., Virginia; Thomas J. Moore, Kentucky; Louis Zimmer, Virginia; Maxey G. Hughes, Maryland; Frank F. Jones, Maryland; J. McHenry Howard, Maryland; James Ker, Virginia; Henry Robinson, Virginia; David B. Dunbar, Virginia; W. F. Johnson, Georgia; Thomas Nash, jr., Virginia; Samuel O. Crooks, Kentucky; A. T. Cunningham, Georgia; T. Henderson Smith, Virginia; W. Gordon McCabe, Maryland; L. F. Terrell, Virginia; John B. Frazer, South Carolina; H. E. Barnes, Mississippi; N. Custis Washington, Missouri; Gustave A. Huwald, Tennessee; William D. Harden, Georgia; George F. Reed, Louisiana; Alfred Edwards, Kentucky; W. L. Allen, Mississippi; T. E. Buckman, Florida; S. Turner Sykes, Alabama; Lawson L. Duncan, Kentucky; William A. Wright, Georgia; George Lemmon, Maryland; W. S. Symington, Virginia; P. D. Hunter, Tennessee; Charles Selden, Virginia; S. S. Kirkland, North Carolina; William E. Foster, Virginia; Thomas Hinds, Mississippi.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. W. RANDOLPH,
Secretary of War.

To His Excellency Jefferson Davis,
President, etc.

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The message was read.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

The following message was received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. N. Harrison, his Secretary:

Richmond, Va., September 26, 1862.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

I nominate the persons mentioned upon the annexed list to the positions designated, agreeably to the recommendation of the Attorney-General.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Confederate States of America, Department of Justice,
Richmond, September 25, 1862.

To the President.

Sir: I have the honor to make the following nominations for appointment in this Department:

• 1. For judge of the district courts for the districts of Cha-lah-ki and Tush-ca-hom-ma--George A. Gallagher.
• 2. For attorney for the district of Cha-lah-ki--Joseph J. Taaffe.
• 3. For attorney for the district of Tush-ca-hom-ma--John T. Blackwell.
• 4. For marshal of the district of Cha-lah-ki--J. A. Scales.
• 5. For marshal of the district of Tush-ca-hom-ma--James S. Dollerhide.

Your obedient servant,

J. H. WATTS, Attorney-General.

The message was read.

Ordered, That it be referred to Committee on Judiciary.

On motion by Mr. Burnett,

The Senate resolved into open legislative session.

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