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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 --SATURDAY, January 30, 1864.

Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 [Volume 3]
SATURDAY, January 30, 1864.

OPEN SESSION.

Mr. Jemison (by leave) introduced

A bill (S. 210) to aid any State in communicating with and perfecting records concerning its troops;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Hill presented the memorial of Alfred T. Mann and others, of the Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the State of Georgia, praying the passage of a law authorizing commissaries and quartermasters to sell rations and forage to all duly accredited missionaries in the Army at the rates at which they are issued to officers, and allowing each army chaplain to draw forage for one horse; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Orr (by leave) introduced

A bill (S. 211) to place free persons of color in the military service of the Confederate States;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the memorial of R. W. Gibbes, M. D., president of the Press Association of the Confederate States of America, praying a change in the present exemption law so far as relates to them;
which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

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Mr. Dortch, from the committee, reported that they had examined and found truly enrolled bills and a joint resolution of the following titles:

• S. 172. An act to increase the compensation of certain civil officers and employees in the President's office and in the executive and legislative departments at Richmond for a limited period;
• S. 190. An act to regulate the collection of the tax in kind upon tobacco, and to amend an act entitled "An act to lay taxes for the common defense and carry on the Government of the Confederate States," approved April 24, 1863;
• S. 196. An act to extend the provisions of an act entitled "An act in relation to the receipt of counterfeit Treasury notes by public officers," approved May 1, 1863.
• S. 20. Joint resolution of thanks to Major Von Borcke.

The President pro tempore having signed the enrolled bills and the enrolled joint resolution last reported to have been examined, they were delivered to the Secretary of the Senate and by him forthwith presented to the President of the Confederate States for his approval.

On motion by Mr. Semmes,

The Senate resolved into secret legislative session.

The doors having been opened,

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

Mr. President: The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed two enrolled bills and an enrolled joint resolution, I am directed to bring them to the Senate for the signature of their President.

The House of Representatives have passed the bill of the Senate (S. 144) to change the time for the assembling of Congress for its next, regular session.

And they have passed, unanimously, a joint resolution (H. R. 23) of thanks to General Beauregard and the officers and men of his command for their defense of Charleston, S. C.; in which they request the concurrence of the Senate.

The joint resolution (H. R. 23) last mentioned was read the first and second times and 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., January 30, 1864.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I herewith transmit for your consideration a communication from the Secretary of War covering an estimate of an additional sum needed by the Engineer Bureau.

I recommend an appropriation of the amount specified for the purpose indicated.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

The message was read.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Mr. Caperton, from the committee, reported that they had examined and found truly enrolled bills and a joint resolution of the following titles:

• H. R. 51. An act to fix the pay and allowances of the master armorer of the Confederate States Armory at Richmond, Va.;
• S. 167. An act to amend an act to provide a mode of authenticating claims for money against the Confederate States not otherwise provided for, approved August 30, 1861; and
• S. 23. Joint resolution in relation to the salaries of the judges of the district courts of the Confederate States for the State of Virginia.

The President pro tempore having signed the enrolled bills and the enrolled joint resolution last reported to have been examined, they

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were delivered to the Secretary of the Senate and by him forthwith presented to the President of the Confederate States for his approval.

On motion by Mr. Semmes,

Ordered, That when the Senate adjourn it be to meet at 11 o'clock on Monday.

Mr. Reade (by leave) introduced

A joint resolution (S. 27) of thanks to North Carolina troops;
which was read the first and second times and Considered as in Committee of the Whole; and no amendment being proposed, it was reported to the Senate.

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

The said resolution 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. Semmes,

The Senate adjourned.

SECRET SESSION.

The Senate proceeded to consider the message of the House of Representatives, requesting a certified copy of the engrossed joint resolution (No. 18) of the Senate explanatory of a joint resolution on the subject of retaliation, approved May 1, 1863; and

On motion by Mr. Orr,

Ordered, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a certified copy of the said resolution to the House of Representatives, agreeably to their request.

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

Richmond, Va., January 29, 1864.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I herewith transmit for your consideration, in secret session, a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, to which I invite your special attention.

I recommend an appropriation of the sum specified for the purpose indicated.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

The message was read.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Finance.

The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (H. R. 92) to tax, fund, and limit the currency.

On the question to agree to the first amendment reported from the Committee on Finance, as amended,

On motion by Mr. Henry, to amend the amendment by striking out the first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh sections thereof and inserting the following:

• Sec. --. That upon all Treasury notes not bearing interest, above five dollars, and upon all call certificates outstanding on the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, there shall be levied a tax of sixty-six and two-thirds cents for every dollar promised on the face of said notes and call certificates, which tax shall attach to the notes and call certificates wherever circulated, and shall be collected at the Treasury, its depositories, and by the tax collectors, on or before the first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, by taking up for cancellation the old notes, and call certificates, and delivering to the taxpayers one-third of the amount so taken up and canceled in the new Treasury notes herein provided to be issued; and thereupon the old Treasury notes and call certificates shall be canceled, and all notes not so presented by that day shall thereafter cease to be fundable, exchangeable for new notes, or receivable in payment of public dues,

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It was determined in the negative.

On the question to agree to the first reported amendment as amended,

It was determined in the affirmative,
• Yeas ... 11
• Nays ... 6

On motion by Mr. Orr,

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

Those who voted in the affirmative are,

Messrs. Caperton, Henry, Hunter, Johnson of Georgia, Johnson of Missouri, Maxwell, Phelan, Reade, Semmes, Sparrow, and Wigfall.

Those who voted in the negative are,

Messrs. Baker, Clark, Haynes, Jemison, Oldham, and Orr.

So the amendment as amended was agreed to.

On motion by Mr. Semmes,

The Senate resolved into executive session.

EXECUTIVE SESSION.

Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the nominations of Samuel A. Duval, Samuel P. Hobgood, Charles R. Mason, J. Brown Baxley, H. N. Hollifield, John J. Gravatt, John H. Pottenger, W. Samuel Scott, Brodie S. Herndon, Paul S. Carrington, William Selden, R. F. Hereford, William C. McCaleb, L. Lindsay, T. Westmoreland, Henry Hanslow, C. R. Norman, Jonathan J. Jones, Adolphus L. Patten, Jos. R. Beauchamp, Henry S. Bacon, John T. Kilby, Edward H. Pritchett, George W. Heagy, John I. Davis, James F. Fryar, John D. Smith, Henry A. Schell, George B. Heard, Joshua Gore, Benjamin T. Marshall, John L. Dismukes, Joel Hall, George W. Burton, John B. Jackson, Alexander Erskine, Hamilton Griffin, William Singleton, William Aills, T. W. Bedford, Lewis C. Pynchon, Benjamin F. Dickinson, Samuel F. Turner, George N. Webb, Jesse G. Core, William J. Byrne, William F. Beard, Albert R. Erskine, Thomas W. Foster, Robert S. Wendel, Henry H. Clayton, Erasmus D. Eiland, John C. Nicholson, John W. Gulick, Hugh G. Smith, P. Brown Scott, James McC. Greene, James M. Jackson, H. Lee Parsons, John B. Newton, M. N. Fleming, Robert Lebby, jr., E. M. Jenkins, William S. Lee, C. C. Abernathy, John H. Erskine, F. S. S. McMahon, Rawlings Young, J. V. Childress, Thomas P. Bailey, James Guild, jr., James B. Cowan, Richard D. Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, George C. Catlett, Benjamin D. Lay, James L. Cunningham, Thomas S. Foster, John T. Marable, William T. Sawyer, William H. Cooper, O. P. Langworthy, M. J. Bolan, Francis L. Parker, George E. Trescott, John G. Dudley, Oscar F. Baxter, Frank A. Walke, Jos. B. Stovall, James R. Bratton, Jackson Chambliss, T. J. La F. De Yampert, J. Edward Hall, John G. Boatright, John C. Mercer, George W. Graves, T. F. Duncan, Archibald Taylor, John W. Ashby, R. S. J. Peebles, Jesse P. Hope, Thomas R. Micks, F. W. Roddey, James L. Fite, Jacob M. Dennis, Edwin D. Newton, W. Henry Sheild, T. C. Hill, Benjamin F. Brown, William H. Baptist, A. G. Emory, John G. Trevilian, Tazewell Tyler, Robert M. Terrill, Harold Snowden, Samuel P. Johnson, Edward Reeves, George T. Harrison, Robert H. Jordan, Augustus A. Lyon, James W. Hines, Walter H. Drane, Andrew Ewing, William O. Hudson, Benjamin Franklin, J. J. Simkins, John Parks, G. W. Broach, James A. Bizzell, James P. Bryan, D. Port Smythe, Holmes Steele, W. E. Weatherly, A. B. Flint, John W. Keyes, Samuel H. Langdon,

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William C. Boon, I. McR. Gregorie, R. B. Hanahan, Somervill Burke, Jerome Cochran, R. V. Leach, Alexander Hunter, Thomas B. Ward, Charles E. Bellamy, Thomas B. Lane, Robert C. Foster, T. H. B. Williams, R. T. De Aragon, Robert P. Hunt, J. T. Hill, William W. Lambdin, James Huston, James M. Hoyle, William H. Sanders, Francis L. Frost, George L. Kirby, Lewis E. Gott, Solomon Secord, W. H. Daughtry, Philip B. Baker, Arthur R. Barry, Francis T. Fry, James B. Brown, Henry M. Clarkson, John N. R. Monmonier, Henry W. Waters, James Evans, Andrew Bowie, James J. Winn, W. T. Montgomery, O. R. Horton, Sampson Pope, J. St. P. Gibson, H. H. Hunter, R. L. Taggart, Joseph Harrison, J. W. Singleton, Fred. Hunter, J. Curtis Jones, Robert J. Bell, Jesse W. Hill, Russell McCord, Benjamin S. Gillespie, William F. Robertson, P. H. Hamilton, George B. Moffett, E. Sidney Lewis, Sam. M. Berniss, William A. Evans, N. D. Richardson, A. Martin, James H. Wilson, Horace M. Darling, David R. Fox, C. K. Caruthers, James McCauley, William F. Steuart, S. W. Caldwell, William J. Mitchell, R. M. Sutfield, William C. Nichols, John G. Howard, John E. Holbrook, James Bolton, Paul C. Yates, N. N. Pumphrey, R. De Jernett, Isaac S. Taylor, William E. Brock, John R. Ward, Thomas S. Thomson, W. H. Prioleau, J. M. Heard, P. J. McCormick, John S. Pride, F. B. Henderson, Charles Witsell, Junius Michie, John H. Logan, Robert S. Baldwin, William U. Morris, John Clopton, Carter R. Willson, William G. Little, John P. McGhee, Benjamin H. Riggs, Henry J. Warmuth, Thomas R. Wingo, William D. Tucker, P. S. Postell, William A. Mulkey, D. H. Dungan, R. McG. Lytle, William R. Walker, Alphus Dunlop, John D. Smith, T. M. Matthews, S. W. Jones, T. G. Richardson, John S. Fenner, James A. Groves, J. G. Thomas, L. Shackelford, R. R. Stevenson, A. B. Snell, R. E. Richardson, Robert F. Carlin, William H. Hawkins, Alfred Hall, Jos. L. Bevans, P. C. Winn, William C. Dixon, George A. Cracraft, William R. Johnston, A. L. Mackay, John H. Thomson, George M. McDowell, E. B. Johnston, John W. Eppes, Ambrose W. Hodge, Thomas H. Hollis, John A. Love, W. J. Goodman, Thomas T. Beall, Charles B. Talbutt, Jos. E. Dixon, Thomas W. Roane, J. W. King, Benjamin F. Cross, Julius Johnson, A. T. Pearsall, James W. Hughes, John Ward, William H. Galt, David Keller, David Wade, D. Warren Brickell, A. B. Brashear, W. A. Martin, and W. V. Aderhold, to be surgeons; George T. Erwin, Henry B. Malone, William R. Hughes, Arthur B. Terrell, W. A. Portwood, F. A. Toomer, W. W. James, Thomas Turner, D. George Godwin, R. Arnold Smith, Jessee Hill, C. C. Gannaway, J. Clarence Treadwell, Arthur L. Foreman, Oliver C. Kidder, W. W. Cleaver, William L. Graves, W. H. McCord, L. B. McCrary, Rufus K. Stevens, John S. Fenner, Edwin M. Shepard, William G. Drake, P. Henry Wright, Alf. B. Deloach, V. G. Woodhouse, Alfred Jones, Frank Atkinson, Benjamin R. Donelson, Carter R. Willson, S. P. Breckinridge, T. L. Dodge, And. J. Borroum, John E. Pugh, Dearing J. Roberts, James A. Moore, Sanford F. Young, William A. Cochran, John C. W. Stigel, William E. Arnold, W. Reid Hurst, Frank M. Ferrell, Robert Darrington, Isaac W. Graham, J. S. Pitts, William M. Mayes, Aylett C. Raines, Richard E. Mudd, A. L. Graves, John Orlando Scott, John P. Campbell, Jos. F. Alsup, N. B. Moss, Allen G. Gooch, John L. Vertress, Benjamin L. Hester, Thomas L. B. Brown, T. J. Mitchell, Fugate Clarke, J. Howard Purefoy,

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J. Byrd Vann, Jos. C. Hamilton, William C. Rigg, Jos. C. Beard, Ignatius D. Thomson, Thomas J. Kinchley, F. Anderson, John A. Dunn, Javan Bryant, Hugh W. Caffey, William P. Finley, Richard O Leafy, John C. Gregory, Edmund S. Pendleton, Russell Murdoch, N. A. Morgan, Thomas M. Smart, Leonidas Crews, W. Pope Riddell, Darby Henagan, John W. Calhoun, Elihu Toland, Robert M. Muldrow, Benjamin L. Seago N. B. Drewry, J. Newton Cheney, J. Henry Bass, James P. Richardson, William Duncan, Thomas J. Vance, Benjamin F. Walker, A. A. Moore, W. Lewis Reese, E. Alonzo Ligon, John P. Mushat, W. Green Stephens, T. Young Aby, G. L. Strait, W. E. Pearson, Andrew S. Fox, John R. Little, John J. Bozeman, J. Newton Doyle, George E. Carleton, W. A. Washington, L. De Witt McMannen, Robert T. Ellett, Robert G. Holloway, John H. Logan, William S. Frierson, Theodorick M. Shaw, T. W. Dandridge, Phil T. Woodson, Robert M. Patterson, Henry R. Christmas, Abner J. Gupton, T. M. Logan, jr., James W. Bennett, T. Alf. Catchings, John L. H. Sessum, L. F. Morehead, Erasmus D. Moore, William Wallace Cross, James Y. Bradfield, Joseph Getzweller, Monroe M. Johnson, Charles H. Burton, David S. Boyle, Andrew J. Almond, John A. Feild, William W. Coggin, W. Wyatt Dickie, Lewis L. Newsom, W. J. Scull, Fielding P. Sloan, Richard W. I'Anson, Gaines M. Boynton, Nicholas H. Boring, Robert P. Sweat, J. Marshal Lennard, Fleming J. Mathews, John J. A. Smith, Thomas P. Shields, Charles A. Bates, Henry Marriott, T. W. Glocker, John T. McLean, Carl H. A. Kleinschmidt, Charles Gresham, W. Carr Shackleford, Logan H. Robinson, James P. Cooke, Robert G. Howard, Richard A. Harrell, S. Moore Brown, Spencer G. Welch, H. Wash. Williams, John L. Cannon, Walter W. Scott, Thomas F. Wood, James T. Wilkins, James S. Stephenson, W. H. H. Cobb, J. Bryant Stinson, Ro. A. Warneck, Elbert C. Schell, Frank Gale, Richard S. Dunlop, John H. Hicks, D. McL. Graham, Marshall T. Bell, Lawrence H. Prosser, Rollins T. Hart, William S. Nowlin, Abner V. Doak, J. H. Williams, Moses Richardson, Wright H. Lavender, William H. Clark, J. Marion Soles, John Lawson Gunter, Benjamin F. Claggett, John W. Harrow, George W. Lafayette Carr, Stephen D. Rowe, Lewis Berkeley, T. B. Bartlett, Charles A. Mitchell, Charles T. Richardson, Thomas J. Love, Richard S. Napier, Joseph M. Craig, Henry A. Gillespie, Charles O. Helwig, Alex. L. Hamilton, A. B. Brookins, James B. Gage, J. Howard De Votie, Henry M. Peeples, J. Lawson Mapp, I. Davis Thompson, Francis Walker, M. P. Hillyard, L. N. Sanders, John Work, N. R. James, W. G. Williams, J. P. Clements, H. S. Bradley, William T. Brewer, Samuel F. Meeker, Henry M. Peeples, George W. Monroe, J. W. Smith, John S. Peake, John M. Hadley, R. H. Lewis, Joseph L. Alsop, B. A. Cheek, Charles W. Timms, A. C. North, John F. Locke, M. A. Brown, Thomas H. Kavanaugh, Jesse E. Thompson, T. Smith Trice, J. Chappell Maxwell, Charles Lesesne, Jonah Bivens, L. J. Wilson, Samuel H. Smith, Samuel G. Mobley, Andrew C. Crombie, W. R. Hardy, Jesse R. Fraley, R. McK. Stribbling, Howell R. Foreman, John M. Borders, Alex. S. Ashe, J. T. Chandler, Charles C. Thornton, George W. Purnell, Marion L. Mayo, T. F. Gilliam, Edwin F. de Graffenried, W. L. Scaife, John R. McDow, William P. Green, William R. Barron, Jos. L. Stephenson, James M. Doby, Isaiah J. Cherry, W. Munroe Bryan, John D. Patton, C. B. Adams, W. W. Campbell, T. Jefferson McKie, James T. Meek, William T. Wellborn, Charles E. Dupont, A. S. Martin,

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T. James Wilson, C. T. Ford. Seaborn R. O'Neal, William M. Mobley, Jacob Huggins, jr., Joel W. Franklin, George W. Howard, James O. Saunders, L. Clay Harvey, Thomas W. Lilley, Martin V, Thornton, Henry W. Bassett, John R. Sims, John D. Crawford, Richard L. Dunn, W. P. Parker, W. B. Penn, John R. Hoffman, Miles W. Goldsby, John C. Booth, S. G. Luckett, William H. Credille, John W. Cockerham, William T. Jordan, James H. Simmonds, Thomas J. Turner, William I. Bull, jr., Peter F. Fitzgerald, S. R. Chambers, Benjamin F. Eads, S. Buford, Jesse C. Houston, John A. Beauchamp, Andrew J. Hayslett, John E. Blocker, Charles S. Darby, Hugh W. Tate, William H. Edmondson. F. M. Traylor, David S. Russell, Harris Fisher, John C. Spinks, Abner E. Arnold, M. W. Drummond, John W. Jones, James D. Young, John W. Chamblin, Thomas P. Hereford, John F. Mackey, R. E. Campbell, R. G. Southall, Charles G. H. Glissman, John W. Bowdoin, A. E. Ragland, William M. Wells, W. H. Wyman, William H. Blair, John A. Barnett, T. Jeff. Spurlock, Calvin N. Silliman, John C. Snead, A. A. McKittrick, Daniel E. Byrd, Walter H. Nardin, Bolling H. Jackson. W. H. Lipscomb, Thomas H. Moss, John C. Wilburn, Samuel R. Williams, T. Henry Edwards, Rufus H. Kilpatrick, Samuel M. Dold, Alexander M. Fraser, V. O. Thompson, Leander G. Hunt, W. F. Robertson, T. L. Anderson, D. R. Merritt, William H. Sherman, James W. McKissack, Thomas E. Whyte, Thomas Z. Offutt, Granville R. Lewis; George M. Willis, Jos. A. Baden, James B. Shepherd, Charles L. Garnett, A. E. Eves, Robert C. Eve, Virginius G. Hitt, James B. Gilkeson, W. B. Watford, W. J. McMahon, J. Lawrence Strait, William A. Heard, Andrew T. Rowe, Jos. B. L. Baker, Benjamin F. Rudisill, H. McC. Holmes, A. Givens, Henry C. Ghent, James W. Greene, H. McKennie, Andrew F. Shultze, Robert V. Reid, W. H. Calvert, S. R. Hurd, H. K. Darden, John L. Read, John S. Wilson, Miller A. Woodson, John M. Payne, D. W. Barton, Robert S. Greene, William R. Cole, Edward C. James, James B. Mangeine, James Leffers, Thomas J. Warren, James V. Johnson, A. P. Fulkerson, Thomas J. Caldwell, W. A. Williamson, William U. Morton, William R. Tompkins, R. J. Young, Jos. S. Buckner, William R. Lide, H. C. Sommerville, James W. Wiseman, Paul A. Barrier, U. H. Dulany, Robert L. Harris, James M. Pelot, C. F. Jones, jr., Peter Binford, A. S. McKeither, David D. Oates, Elias P. Hester, Thomas J. Baskett, John T. B. Foard, Robert E. Alexander, Mason W. Smith, Robert J. Turner, J. Henry Currey, William J. Barron, Lewis S. Freeman, Robert Davis, Rufus A. Roberts, James W. Hannum, N. B. Kennedy, Newton C. Pyles, James J. Crawford, W. McA. Hanna, O. S. Holmes, John W. Rainey, Jasper N. Smith, William H. Banks, John Frost, Jos. P. Carter, James D. Plunket, John T. Parker, E. O. Hodges, Thomas M. Marks, Harvey O. Milton, William Donnan, John C. Storey, James H. Goethe, William T. Spencer, Charles H. Jordan, Walter S. Golden, E. L. Connally, Thomas B. Savage, George A. Nicollassen, Lafayette Bonner, O. Becker, Samuel G. Compton, Aug. J. Spencer, William M. Hoover, Lewis B. King, John McC. Lacy, A. N. Kincannon, A. H. Stearns, Uriah Haynie, Solomon P. Greene, David H. Bryant, John T. Melton, Frank M. Dennis, K. Knowlton, Charles B. Tydings, James H. Wilkes, Jos. Lemly, N. L. Galloway, J. P. Hamer, Robert D. Gwin, Henry T. Fox, A. J. Claiborne, William P. Casseday, A. P. Houston, John G. Anderson, William H. Newell, T. W. Newsome, A. S. Davidson, A. T. Henry,

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Charles J. A. Crockett, D. D. Carter, Alexander Dunn, Theodore Parker, W. L. Earout, and Charles P. Gordon, to be assistant surgeons, reported, with the recommendation that all of said nominations be confirmed.

The Senate proceeded to consider 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.

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

Executive Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 28, 1864.

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.

No. 29.]War Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 25, 1864.

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

Brigadier-generals.
• Col. R. L. Gibson, of Louisiana, to take rank from January 11, 1864.
• Col. C. H. Stevens, vice C. C. Wilson, deceased, of South Carolina, to take rank from January 20, 1864.

Aids-de-camp--first lieutenants.
• W. M. Price, of Missouri, to take rank from May 2, 1863.
• Albert Hyer, of Alabama, to take rank from November 16, 1863.
• Charles T. Hohnes, of Florida, to take rank from December 4, 1863.
• Thomas Gibson, of Tennessee, to take rank from January 6, 1864.
• Samuel Hunter, of South Carolina, to take rank from January 6, 1864.
• John A. Cheatham, of Tennessee, to take rank from December 31, 1863.
• E. Miltenberger, of Louisiana, to take rank from September 14, 1863.
• Celsus Price, of Missouri, to take rank from May 2, 1863.
• Henry S. Puryear, of North Carolina, to take rank from January 17, 1864.
• W. W. Old, of Virginia, to take rank from January 19, 1864.
• C. A. Williams, of Virginia, to take rank from December 28, 1863.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,
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.

Executive Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 29, 1864.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

Agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, I nominate Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, of Virginia, to be lieutenant-general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

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War Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 28, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the nomination of Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, of Virginia, to be lieutenant-general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America, to take rank from May 23, 1863.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,
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.

Executive Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 29, 1864.

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.

No. 33.]War Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 28, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America, for distinguished valor and skill:

Colonel.
• Capt. John B. Davis, of South Carolina, to be colonel Fifteenth South Carolina Regiment, vice Colonel Gist, resigned, to rank from January 19, 1864.

Second Lieutenants.
• E. T. Tayloe, of Mississippi, to be second lieutenant Company E, Jeff. Davis Legion, to rank from December 17, 1863.
• B. E. Gould, of Alabama, to be second lieutenant Company G, Eighth Alabama Regiment, to rank from December 24, 1863.
• J. C. Davant, of South Carolina, to be second lieutenant Company B, Second South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, to rank from January 6, 1864.
• John A. Caldwell, of--, to be second lieutenant Lumsden's battery, to rank from December 31, 1863.
• F. M. Anderson, of Missouri, to be second lieutenant Company D, Sixth Missouri Regiment, to rank from January 6, 1864.
• W. B. Couchman, of Missouri, to be second lieutenant Company H, Fourth Missouri Regiment, to rank January 13, 1864.
• Erwin A. Roach, of South Carolina, to be second lieutenant Company B, Fourteenth South Carolina Regiment, to rank from January 18, 1864.
• E. H. Reid, of Missouri, to be second lieutenant, Company H, Fourth Missouri Regiment, to rank from January 18, 1864.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,
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.

Executive Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 29, 1864.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

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

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

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No. 32.]War Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 27, 1864.

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

Adjutants--first lieutenants.
• John B. Moore, of South Carolina, for duty with Palmetto Battalion Artillery, to rank from December 19, 1863.
• D. M. Layton, of Virginia, for duty with Twenty-fifth Virginia Regiment, to rank from November 27, 1863.
• J. N. Shorter, of Alabama, for duty with Thirty-first Alabama Regiment, to rank from May 2, 1863.
• Thomas G. Pond, of Georgia, for duty with Twentieth Georgia Battalion, to rank from October 13, 1863.
• J. W. Laird, of Maryland, for duty with First Maryland Battalion, to rank from July 4, 1863.
• John S. Bryan, of Georgia, for duty with Fourth Georgia Cavalry Regiment, to rank from December 1, 1863.
• John W. Faison, of North Carolina, for duty with Fifty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, to rank from December 1, 1863.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,
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.

Executive Department,
Richmond, January 27, 1864.

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.

No. 23.]War Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 5, 1864.

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

ASSISTANT ADJUTANTS-GENERAL.
• Majors.
  • 1. Henry Goldthwaite, of Alabama, to take rank from November 21, 1863.
  • 2. Lamar Cobb, of Georgia, to take rank from December 14, 1863.
  • 3. J. B. Cumming, of Georgia, to take rank from May 23, 1863.
• Captains.
  • 1. C. L. D. Elgee, of Tennessee, to take rank from November 7, 1863.
  • 2. S. P. Cunningham, of Missouri, to take rank from December 9, 1863.
  • 3. C. Powell Grady, of Georgia, to take rank from December 19, 1863.
  • 4. B. A. Terrett, of Arkansas, to take rank from November 18, 1863.
  • 5. Henry Ewing, of Tennessee, to take rank from May 2, 1863.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,
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.

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Executive Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 27, 1864.

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.

No. 27.]War Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 16, 1864.

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

Colonel.
• James Z. George, of Mississippi, to be colonel Fifth Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (formed of State troops and nonconscripts), to rank from December 7, 1863.

Lieutenant-colonel.
• J. A. Barksdale, of Mississippi, to be lieutenant-colonel Fifth Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (formed of State troops and nonconscripts), to rank from December 7, 1863.

Majors.
• Capt. William G. Henderson, of Mississippi, to be major Fifth Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (formed of State troops and nonconscripts), to rank from December 7, 1863.
• Adjt. J. F. Love, of Tennessee, to be major Fifty-ninth Tennessee Regiment vice Maj. J. P. Brown, promoted, and the officers entitled to promotion waiving their claims, to rank from January 7, 1864.

Captain.
• C. S. Fleming, of Florida, to be captain Company G, Second Florida Regiment, by unanimous consent of officers, to rank from December 14, 1863.

Second lieutenants.
• L. L. Albright, of Georgia, to be second lieutenant Company E, Fifty-fourth Georgia Regiment, company failed to elect, to rank from October 30, 1863.
• A. G. Cudworth, of South Carolina, to be second lieutenant Company I, Twenty-seventh South Carolina Regiment the officer elected declined examination, to rank from January 6, 1864.
• C. V. Smith, of Alabama, to be second lieutenant Company E, Fifteenth Alabama Regiment, the only person in the company fit for promotion, to rank from January 6, 1864.
• Franklin C. Ross, of Georgia, to be second lieutenant, First Georgia Regiment (enlisted men), to rank from January 7, 1864.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War.

To His Excellency Jefferson Davis,
President, etc.

The message was read.

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

Executive Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 27, 1864.

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.

No. 28.]War Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 23, 1864.

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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Brigade commissaries--majors.
• 1. Thomas F. Fisher, of Louisiana, to take rank from December 1. 1863.
• 2. J. H. Flournoy, of Louisiana, to take rank from December 6, 1863.
• 3. Alexander L. Smith, of Florida, to take rank from December 4. 1863.
• 4. Warren M. Hopkins, of Virginia, to take rank from December 22, 1863.
• 5. George Foster, of Mississippi, to take rank from December 26, 1863.

Assistant commissaries--captains.
• 1. E. P. Rareshide, of Louisiana, to take rank from October 14, 1863.
• 2. John C. Meadors, of Alabama, to take rank from October 7, 1863.
• 3. W. H. Kenner, of Tennessee, to take rank from December 30, 1863.
• 4. A. F. Dunlevy, of Virginia, to take rank from December 26, 1863.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,
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.

Executive Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 23, 1864.

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.

No. 6.]War Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, December 8, 1863.

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

COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT.
• Lieutenant-colonel.
  • 1. F. G. Ruffin, of Virginia, to rank from October 5, 1863.
• Majors.
  • 1. R. H. Cumby, of Texas, to rank from May 2, 1863.
  • 2. J. E. Ficklin, of Virginia, to rank from May 19, 1863.
  • 3. S. B. Brewer, of Alabama, to rank from June 9, 1863.
  • 4. John W. Williams, of Alabama, to rank from May 26, 1863.
  • 5. E. L. Holcombe, of Georgia, to rank from June 15, 1863.
  • 6. J. C. Bridgwater, of Tennessee, to rank from May 8, 1863.
  • 7. J. G. Campbell, of Louisiana, to rank from June 3, 1863.
  • 8. C. A. Lathrop, of Alabama, to rank from July 20, 1863.
  • 9. H. G. Wilson, of Arkansas, to rank from May 2, 1863.
  • 10. J. G. Parrish, of Virginia, to rank from May 2, 1863.
  • 11. E. B. Carruth, of Mississippi, to rank from May 2, 1863.
  • 12. W. E. Snead, of Tennessee, to rank from May 15, 1863.
  • 13. A. M. Fowlkes, of Alabama, to rank from August 3, 1863.
  • 14. S. E. Lucas, of South Carolina, to rank from August 1, 1863.
  • 15. J. N. Coleman, of Texas, to rank from February 3, 1863.
  • 16. W. E. De Mill, of North Carolina, to rank from June 1, 1863.
  • 17. A. F. Haymond, of Virginia, to rank from September 12, 1863.
  • 18. R. L. Coleman, of North Carolina, to rank from September 28, 1863.
  • 19. William Taylor, of Virginia, to rank from September 18, 1863.
  • 20. J. M. Douglass, of Texas, to rank from July 1, 1863.
  • 21. T. W. Scott, of Louisiana, to rank from May 2, 1863.
  • 22. J. Shouk, of Kentucky, to rank from November 20, 1863.
  • 23. W. V. Crouch, of Virginia, to rank from October 28, 1863.
  • 24. William T. Smith, of Alabama, to rank from November 16, 1863.

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  • 25. J. M. Foster, of Alabama, to rank from August 28, 1863.
  • 26. J. Y. Rankin, of Kentucky, to rank from November 28, 1863.
  • 27. J. Q. Thomas, of Tennessee, to rank from November 7, 1863.
  • 28. L. A. Fowler, of Kentucky, to rank from December 3, 1863.
  • 29. G. C. Ball, of Alabama, to rank from November 20, 1863.
  • 30. E. M. Lowe, of North Carolina, to rank from July 29, 1863.
  • 31. C. McClenaghan, of South Carolina, to rank from July 29, 1863.
  • 32. T. B. Trout, of South Carolina, to rank from July 29, 1863.
  • 33. A. M. Allen, of Georgia, to rank from July 29, 1863.
  • 34. M. B. Millen, of Georgia, to rank from July 29, 1863.
  • 35. H. T. Hall, of Tennessee, to rank from July 29, 1863.
  • 36. P. Campbell, of Tennessee, to rank from July 29, 1863.
  • 37. A. B. Noyes, of Florida, to rank from October 5, 1863.
  • 38. J. P. Baldwin, of Florida, to rank from October 5, 1863.
  • 39. A. G. Summer, of Florida, to rank from October 5, 1863.
  • 40. A. B. Smith, of Georgia, to rank from August 5, 1863.
  • 41. W. V. Johnson, of Kentucky, to rank from July 21, 1863.
  • 42. W. O. Harvie, of Virginia, to rank from May 22, 1863.
  • 43. C. P. King, of Arkansas, to rank from June 30, 1862.
  • 44. T. Robinson, of Virginia, to rank from September 23, 1863.
  • 45. G. M. Proctor, of Kentucky, to rank from October 1, 1863.
  • 46. W. M. Tate, of Virginia, to rank from July 1, 1863.
  • 47. Joseph Cloyd, of Virginia, to rank from December 5, 1863.
  • 48. James Sloan, of North Carolina, to rank from June 26, 1863.
  • 49. R. T. Wilson, of Tennessee, to rank from June 26, 1863.
  • 50. P. W. White, of Florida, to rank from June 26, 1863.
  • 51. John M. Galt, of Virginia, to rank from August 8, 1863.
• Captains.
  • 1. J. H. Franklin, of Virginia, to rank from May 2, 1863.
  • 2. J. M. Johnston, of Tennessee, to rank from May 13, 1863.
  • 3. W. D. Reynolds, of North Carolina, to rank from May 20, 1863.
  • 4. S. H. Richardson, of Mississippi, to rank from May 2, 1863.
  • 6. C. W. Venable, of Virginia, to rank from June 2, 1863.
  • 7. R. G. Lindsay, of North Carolina, to rank from July 9, 1863.
  • 8. A. H. Cline, of Arkansas, to rank from May 2, 1863.
  • 9. J. H. Dowell, of Arkansas, to rank from May 2, 1863.
  • 10. B. F. Brashear, of Texas, to rank from May 2, 1863.
  • 11. T. R. Foster, of Virginia, to rank from August 25, 1863.
  • 12. G. B. Scott, of Virginia, to rank from August 25, 1863.
  • 13. W. O. Roger, of Louisiana, to rank from August 25, 1863.
  • 14. W. B. Fitzpatrick, of Georgia, to rank from September 3, 1863.
  • 15. W. A. Thompson, of Tennessee, to rank from August 11, 1863.
  • 16. John H. Bright, of Alabama, to rank from September 8, 1863.
  • 17. J. J. Wheadon, of Alabama, to rank from July 31, 1863.
  • 18. August O. Bacon, of Georgia, to rank from September 13, 1863.
  • 20. J. M. Murkland, of Virginia, to rank from September 28, 1863.
  • 21. W. T. Edwards, of Arkansas, to rank from September 22, 1863.
  • 22. W. C. Hillhouse, of South Carolina, to rank from September 26, 1863.
  • 23. T. E. Dudley, of South Carolina, to rank from October 1, 1863.
  • 24. Samuel L. Butler, of Georgia, to rank from October 5, 1863.
  • 25. D. L. Thompson, of South Carolina, to rank from October 8, 1863.
  • 26. W. E. Dick, of South Carolina, to rank from October 15, 1863.
  • 27. H. W. Conner, of South Carolina, to rank from November 9, 1863.
  • 28. J. T. Mason, of North Carolina, to rank from August 3, 1863.
  • 29. B. R. Mason, of Virginia, to rank from August 19, 1863.
  • 30. T. H. McKoy, of Louisiana, to rank from August 18, 1863.
  • 31. J. A. McRady, of Tennessee, to rank from July 31, 1863.
  • 32. R. M. Doss, of Alabama, to rank from August 22, 1863.
  • 33. T. E. Mitchell, of Alabama, to rank from August 1, 1863.
  • 34. J. R. Hutchison, of Virginia, to rank from September 5, 1863.
  • 35. W. B. Clarke, of Arkansas, to rank from September 8, 1863.
  • 36. W. H. Wigg, of South Carolina, to rank from August 1, 1863.
  • 37. M. J. M. Mason, of Alabama, to rank from August 13, 1863.
  • 38. T. C. Moore, of Georgia, to rank from July 31, 1863.
  • 39. Richard Irby, of Virginia, to rank from June 23, 1863.

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  • 40. K. L. Simons, of South Carolina, to rank from June 26. 1863.
  • 41. John F. Riley, of South Carolina, to rank from June 26, 1863.
  • 42. T. S. Morgan, of Tennessee, to rank from June 27, 1863.
  • 43. F. F. Myer, of Maryland, to rank from August 15, 1863.
  • 44. G. H. Cheever, of Georgia, to rank from October 13, 1863.
  • 45. T. H. Bostick, of Tennessee, to rank from October 13, 1863.
  • 46. J. A. Bowie, of South Carolina, to rank from July 30, 1863.
  • 47. J. W. Chapman, of Alabama, to rank from August 18, 1863.
  • 48. A. J. Hutchins, of Georgia, to rank from December 3, 1863.
  • 49. Z. S. Farland, of Virginia, to rank from October 11, 1863.
  • 50. S.S. Gresham, of Virginia, to rank from October 11, 1863.
  • 51. J. B. Fulton, of Georgia, to rank from October 9, 1863.
  • 52. M. B. Kittrell, of Georgia, to rank from October 9, 1863.
  • 53. H. Wade, of Alabama, to rank from October 17, 1863.
  • 54. J. A. Houser, of Georgia, to rank from October 23, 1863.
  • 55. J. H. Davis, of Georgia, to rank from October 23, 1863.
  • 56. C. F. Stubbs, of Georgia, to rank from May 2, 1863.
  • 57. T. C. Daniel, of Virginia, to rank from November 14, 1863.
  • 58. J. G. Moffett, of Virginia, to rank from November 1, 1863.
  • 59. G. W. Hardie, of Georgia, to rank from October 28, 1863.
  • 60. T. H. Handy, of Maryland, to rank from November 20, 1863.
  • 61. W. B. Williams, of Virginia, to rank from November 20, 1863.
  • 62. D. C. Richardson, of Texas, to rank from November 27, 1863.
  • 63. W. H. Johnson, of Mississippi, to rank from November 13, 1863.
  • 64. J. P. Eggleston, of Mississippi, to rank from November 28, 1863.
  • 65. C. M. Boyce, of Mississippi, to rank from November 17, 1863.
  • 66. C. B. Graybill, of Georgia to rank from November 17, 1863.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,
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.

Richmond, Va., January 29, 1864.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

Agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy, I hereby nominate Marshall L. Sothoron, to be assistant paymaster.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Navy Department, Confederate States of America,
Richmond, January 26, 1864.

The President.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nomination for appointment in the Navy:

Assistant paymaster.
• Marshall L. Sothoron, of Maryland.

With great respect, your obedient servant,S. R. MALLORY,
Secretary of the Navy.

The message was read.

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

On motion by Mr. Semmes,

The Senate resolved into open legislative session.

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