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Journal of the Confederate Congress --FRIDAY, February 27, 1863.

Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 [Volume 3]
FRIDAY, February 27, 1863.

OPEN SESSION.

On motion by Mr. Maxwell,

Ordered, That the Hon. James M. Baker have leave of absence from the sessions of the Senate until Friday next.

Mr. Hill presented certain papers relating to a large amount of army supplies now in the possession of the Government, alleged to have been bought with counterfeit Treasury notes in Texas, and for the payment for which there are conflicting claimants; which were referred to the Committee on Claims.

Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 36) to increase the strength and efficiency of heavy artillery for coast defense, and other purposes, reported it with an amendment.

The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (H. R. 9) to authorize and regulate the impressment of private property for the use of the Army and other military purposes.

On motion by Mr. Sparrow,

Ordered, That the further consideration thereof be postponed until to-morrow.

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The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (S. 3) to organize the Supreme Court of the Confederate States.

On motion by Mr. Clark,

Ordered, That the further consideration thereof be postponed until Monday next.

The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the bill (S. 8) to provide and organize engineer troops to serve during the war; and the reported amendments having been agreed to, the bill was reported to the Senate and the amendments were concurred in.

Ordered, That the bill 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. Sparrow,

The Senate resolved into secret legislative session.

The doors having been opened,

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

Richmond, Va., February 27, 1863.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

In further response to your resolution of the 10th instant, in reference to the shares held by alien enemies in the Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company, I herewith transmit a communication from the Postmaster-General.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

The message was read.

Ordered, That it be referred o the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads.

On motion by Mr. Semmes,

Ordered, That when the Senate adjourn it be to Monday next.

On motion by Mr. Clay,

The Senate adjourned.

SECRET SESSION.

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

Resolved, That the President be requested to furnish to the Senate copies of the reports of General Braxton Bragg of his campaign in Kentucky, including the reports of the battles of Munfordville, Perryville, and Richmond; also report of the battle of Murfreesboro, together with the reports of the lieutenant, major, and brigadier generals engaged in said campaign and battles.

The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the joint resolution (S. 2) relative to the plan of retaliation proposed in the President's message.

After debate,

On motion by Mr. Yancey,

Ordered, That the further consideration of the resolution be postponed until to-morrow.

On motion by Mr. Mitchel,

The Senate resolved into executive session.

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EXECUTIVE SESSION.

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

Richmond, February 27, 1863.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

I herewith transmit for your information a communication from the Attorney-General in relation to the marshalship of Louisiana, in response to your resolution of the 19th instant.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

The message was read.

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

Richmond, Va., February 27, 1863.

To the President of the Senate:

I nominate the person named in the annexed letter of the Secretary of the Navy, agreeably to his recommendation.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Confederate States of America, Navy Department,
Richmond, February 26, 1863.

The President.

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

Second lieutenant.
• Albert S. Berry, of Kentucky.

With much 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.

Richmond, February 26, 1863.

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, February 16, 1863.

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

Quartermasters, with the rank of major.
• A. G. Quaite, of Texas, for duty with Gen. J. C. Moores's brigade, to rank October 27, 1862.
• R. B. George, of Kentucky, for duty with Gen. A. Buford's brigade, to rank January 16, 1863.
• George T. Jones, of Virginia, for duty with Gen. R. B. Garnett's brigade, to rank January 14, 1863.
• W. P. Paul, of Tennessee, for duty with Gen. W. H. Jackson's brigade, to rank January 6, 1863.
• H. J. Hearsey, of Mississippi, for duty with Gen. C. Posey's brigade, to rank January 19, 1863.
• W. H. Quincy, of South Carolina, for duty with Gen. M. Jenkins' brigade, to rank January 1, 1863.
• James T. Stewart, of Georgia, for duty with Gen. H. W. Mercer's brigade, to rank January 15, 1863.
• J. H. Littlefield, of Texas, for duty with Gen. J. B. Robertson's brigade, to rank November 1, 1862.

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• H. R. Hooper, of Arkansas, for duty with Gem A. Rust's brigade, to rank May 14, 1862.
• C. H. Jones, of Virginia, to be assigned to duty by the Quartermaster-General, to rank December 3, 1862.
• A. S. Cabell, of Virginia, for duty with Gen. W. L. Cabell's brigade, to rank January 3, 1863.
• C. H. Suber, of Florida, to be assigned to duty by Gen. Joseph Finegan, to rank February 9, 1863.
• T. J. Woolfolk, of Alabama, for duty with Gen. James Cantey's brigade, to rank January 30, 1863.
• H. L. Elcan, of Tennessee, for duty with Gen. M. J. Wright's brigade, to rank January 20, 1863.
• John M. Billups, of Tennessee, for duty with Gen. John Adams' brigade, to rank January 25, 1863.
• G. S. Thompson, of North Carolina, for duty with Gen. J. H. Lane's brigade, to rank January 23, 1863.
• W. E. Bird, of Georgia, for duty with Gen. R. Toombs' brigade, to rank February 1, 1863.
• N. C. Jones, of Arkansas, for duty with Gen. F. C. Armstrong's brigade, to rank January 23, 1863.
• R. J. Hill, of Alabama, for duty with Gen. Z. C. Deas' brigade, to rank January 11, 1863.
• J. A. Lauderdale, of Tennessee, for duty with Donelson's brigade (now commanded by Colonel Savage), to rank January 9, 1863.
• J. R. Parrott, of Georgia, for duty with Gen. W. T. Wofford's brigade, to rank February 17. 1863.

Assistant quartermasters, with rank of captain.
• J. G. Guignard, of South Carolina, for duty with First South Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters, to rank July 16, 1862.
• W. H. Bryan, of South Carolina, for duty with Holcombe Legion, to rank December 20, 1862.
• E. G. Cheatham, of North Carolina, for duty with Twenty-third North Carolina Regiment, to rank December 6, 1862.
• J. M. Kilgour, of Virginia, for duty with Thirty-eighth Virginia Battalion, to rank January 3, 1863.
• W. C. Day, of Mississippi, for duty with Eighth Mississippi Battalion, to rank December 15, 1862.
• R. R. Harris, of Tennessee, for duty with Fifth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, to rank May 24, 1862.
• Johnson Orrick, of Virginia, for duty with Thirty-third Virginia Regiment, to rank December 18, 1862.
• T. H. Maxwell, of Florida, for duty with First Florida Regiment, to rank December 22, 1862.
• George Higgins, of Georgia, for duty with Sixty-first Georgia Regiment, to rank June l, 1862.
• A. U. Wright, of Texas, for duty at Jefferson, Tex., to rank November 29, 1862.
• William Johnston, of Kentucky, for duty with Gen. B. Bragg, to rank January 2, 1863.
• J. B. O'Bryan, of Tennessee, for duty with Gen. B. Bragg, to rank January 2, 1863.
• John W. Green, of Virginia, to be assigned to duty by the Quartermaster-General, to rank December 14, 1862.
• A. H. Keller, of Alabama, for duty with Twenty-seventh Alabama Regiment, to rank September 24, 1862.
• W. M. Sowers, of Virginia, to be assigned to duty by Gen. T. J. Jackson, to rank December 28, 1862.
• James M. Elliott, of Georgia, for duty at Rome, Ga., to rank December 16, 1862.
• Willis S. Stone, of Tennessee, for duty with Eighth Tennessee Regiment, to rank July 1, 1862.
• Thomas Moore, of Tennessee, for duty with Maj. A. H. Cole, at Murfreesboro, Tenn., to rank December 12, 1862.
• W. F. Law, of Georgia, for duty with Twenty-first Georgia Battalion, to rank October 14, 1862.
• Gust. Bredow, of Louisiana, for duty with Twenty-ninth Louisiana Regiment, to rank January 22, 1863.
• J. M. Madding, of Alabama, for duty with Thirty-fifth Alabama Regiment, to rank December 12, 1862.
• C. L. Randolph, of Tennessee, for duty with Thirty-fifth Tennessee Regiment, to rank May 15, 1862.

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• J. B. Burwell, of North Carolina, for duty with Fifty-third North Carolina Regiment, to rank December 15, 1862.
• G. E. Manigault, of South Carolina, for duty with Fourth South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, to rank December 30, 1862.
• Jesse S. Wood, of Florida, for duty with Second Florida Battalion, to rank December 24, 1862.
• J. F. McClure, of Tennessee, for duty with Sixtieth Tennessee Regiment, to rank October 6, 1862.
• W. B. Hoyt, of Alabama, for duty with Eighteenth Alabama Regiment, to rank December 25, 1862.
• John H. Gray, of Georgia, for duty with Sixth Georgia Regiment, to rank December 23, 1862.
• J. S. Porcher, of South Carolina, for duty with Tenth South Carolina Regiment, to rank December 18, 1862.
• R. E. B. Hewetson, of South Carolina, for duty with First South Carolina Regiment, to rank January 13, 1863.
• C. B. Gwathmey, of Virginia, for duty with Fifth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 22, 1863.
• Ker Boyce, of Georgia, for duty with Twelfth Georgia Battalion, to rank January 12, 1863.
• Thomas M. Ingles, of Tennessee, for duty with Thirty-fourth Tennessee Regiment, to rank January 22, 1863.
• E. H. Ewing, of Virginia, for duty with chief quartermaster General Hardee's corps, to rank January 27, 1863.
• W. W. Gordon, of Georgia, for duty with Sixty-third Georgia Regiment, to rank January 6, 1863.
• J. W. Higgason, of Alabama, for duty with Forty-second Alabama Regiment, to rank May 16, 1862.
• E. B. Faulkner, of Virginia, to be assigned to duty by Quartermaster-General, to rank February 1, 1863.
• J. F. Foard, of Tennessee, for duty with Sixty-third Tennessee Regiment, to rank July 30, 1862.
• W. J. Kennedy, of Alabama, for duty at Montevallo, Ala., to rank January 23, 1863.
• Travis G. Wright, of Texas, for duty at Clarksville, Tex., to rank January 23, 1863.
• B. F. Fitzpatrick, of Mississippi, for duty with Thirty-first Mississippi Regiment, to rank January 19, 1863.
• W. F. Williams, of Alabama, for duty with Thirty-ninth Alabama Regiment, to rank January 11, 1863.
• Thomas Addison, of South Carolina, for duty with Twenty-fourth South Carolina Regiment, to rank January 8, 1863.
• George Cox, of Mississippi, for duty with Twenty-sixth Mississippi Regiment, to rank December 14, 1862.
• J. F. Martin, Alabama, for duty with Ninth Alabama Regiment, to rank January 31, 1863.
• D. W. Ducie, of Mississippi, for duty with Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment, to rank January 19, 1863.
• O. F. Weisiger, of Virginia, to be assigned to duty by Quartermaster-General, to rank January 30, 1863.
• W. R. White, of Arkansas, for duty with Twelfth Arkansas Battalion Sharpshooters, to rank June 14, 1862.
• L. M. Lawshe, of Mississippi, for duty with First Mississippi Regiment, to rank October 6, 1862.
• Thomas W. Napier, of Kentucky, for duty with Third Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, to rank November 18, 1862.
• Felix Ducayet, of Louisiana, to be assigned to duty by Quartermaster-General, to rank January 29, 1863.
• Felix W. Earnest, of Tennessee, for duty with Sixty-first Tennessee Regiment, to rank October 10, 1862.
• E. P. Gaines, of Texas, for duty with Maj. Gen. J. B. Magruder, to rank December 17, 1862.
• Benjamin F. Buckner, for duty with Third South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 18, 1863.
• John Tatum, of Arkansas, for duty with First Arkansas Regiment, to rank January 18, 1863.
• James M. Henagan, of South Carolina, for duty with Eighth South Carolina Regiment, to rank September 20, 1862.
• W. H. Kable, of Virginia, for duty with Tenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 30, 1863.

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• Charles W. Green, of Virginia, for duty with Seventeenth Virginia Regiment, to rank December 17, 1862.
• J. C. Van Fossen, of Virginia, for duty with Seventeenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 28, 1863.
• Henry Dunohoo, of Tennessee, for duty with Sixty-second Tennessee Regiment, to rank January 4, 1863.
• Sheldon Toomer, of Georgia, for duty at West Point, Ga., to rank February 9, 1863.
• R. H. Hill, of Tennessee for duty at Camp Instruction, at Knoxville, Tenn., to rank October 14, 1862.
• O. Caldwell, of Virginia, for duty with Sixteenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 22, 1863.
• Henry S. Field, of North Carolina, for duty with Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill, to rank October 8, 1862.
• M. V. Mitchell, of Missouri, for duty with Fifth Missouri Regiment, to rank September 1, 1862.
• N. J. Floyd, of Alabama, for duty with Ninth Alabama Regiment, to rank January 23, 1863.
• W. T. Edwards, of Arkansas, for duty with First Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 28, 1863.
• D. R. Murchison, of North Carolina, for duty with Thirty-fourth North Carolina Regiment, to rank January 24, 1863.
• Jos. M. Walters, of Virginia, for duty with Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 19, 1863.
• George C. Reid, of Virginia, for duty with Brig. Gen. R. E. Colston, to rank January 31, 1863.
• H. G. Robertson, of Tennessee, for duty at Greeneville, Tenn., to rank January 15, 1863.
• S. Chambers, of Virginia, for duty with Eighteenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 10, 1863.
• T. D. Johnston, of North Carolina, for duty with Thomas' Legion, to rank January 13, 1863.
• V. E. Turner, of North Carolina, for duty with Twenty-third North Carolina Regiment, to rank January 26, 1863.
• W. R. Garrett, of Tennessee, for duty with Seventh Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 22, 1863.
• Thomas Jones, of Virginia, for duty with Fortieth Virginia Regiment, to rank February 1, 1863.
• A. R. Venable, of Virginia, to report to Quartermaster-General, for duty at Petersburg, Va., to rank February 10, 1863.
• W. G. Thomas, of Texas, for duty at Camp Instruction, Tyler, Tex., to rank August 4, 1862.
• William H. Welch, of Alabama, for duly with Twentieth Alabama Regiment, to rank November 28, 1862.
• D. McKenzie, of North Carolina, for duty with Fifth North Carolina Battalion, to rank December 24, 1862.
• George D. Logan, of Louisiana, for duty with Thirty-third Louisiana Regiment, to rank November 16, 1862.
• W. C. Eoff, of Virginia, for duty with Thirty-sixth Virginia Battalion, to rank February 5, 1863.
• J. E. Ray, of Tennessee, for duty with Fifth Tennessee Regiment, to rank May 6, 1862.
• B. F. Owen, of Mississippi, for duty at Lauderdale Springs, Miss., to rank February 11, 1863.
• R. M. Oates, of North Carolina, for duty with Thirty-seventh North Carolina Regiment, to rank October 7, 1862.
• R. H. Allen, of Mississippi, for duty with Twelfth Mississippi Battalion, to rank February 9, 1863.
• William M. Milby, of Texas, for duty with Second Texas Cavalry Regiment, to rank October 11, 1862.

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.

On motion by Mr. Semmes,

The Senate resolved into open legislative session.

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