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Journal of the Confederate Congress --MONDAY, March 2, 1863.

Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 [Volume 3]
MONDAY, March 2, 1863.

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OPEN SESSION.

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

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary inquire into the propriety of increasing the compensation now allowed by law for the publication of the laws in the public newspapers.

The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the bill (S. 36) to increase the strength and efficiency of heavy artillery for coast defense, and other purposes; and the reported amendment having been agreed to, the bill was reported to the Senate and the amendment was concurred in.

Ordered, That the bill be engrossed and read a third time.

The said bill was read the third time, and the title was amended.

Resolved, That it pass, and that the title thereof be "An act to increase the strength and efficiency of heavy artillery for seacoast defense."

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

Mr. Oldham, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the joint resolution (S. 4) in relation to the free navigation of the Mississippi River, reported it with an amendment by way of substitute therefor.

Ordered, That the amendment be printed.

Mr. Oldham also submitted a report (No. 5) in relation to the same subject; which was ordered to be printed.

Mr. Clay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John Sample, praying to have his son, J. A. Sample, lieutenant, Company A, Seventh Mississippi Regiment, allowed back pay, reported

A bill (S. 62) to pay officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates not legally mustered into the service of the Confederate States for services actually performed;
which was read the first and second times and ordered to be placed upon the Calendar and printed.

Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 7) to prohibit the punishment of soldiers by whipping, reported it with amendments.

The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the bill (H. R. 7) last mentioned; and the reported amendments having been agreed to, the bill was reported to the Senate and the amendments were concurred in.

Ordered, That the amendments be engrossed and the bill read a third time.

The said bill was read the third time, as amended; and

On the question,

Shall the bill now pass?

On motion by Mr. Davis,

Ordered, That it lie on the table.

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

Mr. President: The President of the Confederate States has notified the House of Representatives that on the 25th of February last he approved and signed a joint

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resolution (H. R. 2) of thanks to Maj. Gen. J. Bankhead Magruder and officers and men under his command at Galveston, Tex.

The House of Representatives have passed bills and joint resolutions of the following titles; in which they ask the concurrence of the Senate:

• H. R. 16. An act in relation to the transfer of troops, and to repeal an act entitled "An act in relation to the transfer of troops," approved September 23, 1862;
• H. R. 17. An act to aid committees of Congress in the investigation of matters referred to them, and to punish false swearing before said committees;
• H. R. 4. Joint resolution of thanks to Gen. Braxton Bragg, and the officers and privates comprising the Army of Tennessee, for their operations before Murfreesboro; and
• H. R. 5. Joint resolution relative to general orders issued from the Adjutant-General's Office.

The bills and joint resolutions received this day from the House of Representatives for concurrence were severally read the first and second times.

Ordered, That the bill numbered 16 and the joint resolutions numbered 4 and 5 be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and the bill numbered 17 to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 13) to amend an act for the establishment and organization of a general staff for the Army of the Confederate States, reported it without amendment.

Mr. Oldham, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the bill (S. 14) to authorize newspapers to be mailed to soldiers free of postage, 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.

Pending the consideration of the amendment proposed to the bill by Mr. Haynes, Mr. Yancey gave notice of his intention to propose an amendment thereto; which was ordered to be printed;

When,

On motion by Mr. Orr,

The Senate resolved into secret legislative session.

The doors having been opened,

On motion by Mr. Wigfall,

Ordered, That the bill (S. 30) to regulate impressments by officers of the Army be printed.

On motion by Mr. Burnett,

The Senate adjourned.

SECRET SESSION.

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. Johnson of Georgia, and by unanimous consent,

Ordered, That the resolution, together with sundry propositions informally submitted in relation to the subject, be recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary.

On motion by Mr. Yancey,

Ordered, That so much of the President's message as relates to the subject of retaliation be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

On motion by Mr. Sparrow,

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:

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:

Commissaries, with the rank of major.
• L. F. Marshall, of Arkansas, for duty with Gen. A. Rust's brigade, to rank September 20, 1862.
• D. R. Hawkins, of Maryland, for duty with Gen. J. J. Archer's brigade, to rank June 15, 1862.
• V. M. Brown, of Virginia, for duty with Gen. M. D. Corse's brigade, to rank December 3, 1862.
• D. T. Carraway, of North Carolina, for duty with Gen. J. H. Lane's brigade, to rank January 17, 1862.
• B. G. Pinckney, of South Carolina, for duty with Gen. J. H. Trapier's brigade, to rank January 9, 1863.
• A. P. Slover, of Tennessee, for duty with Gen. W. H. Jackson's brigade, to rank January 6, 1863.
• Thomas P. Adams, of Mississippi, for duty with Gen. John Adams' brigade, to rank January 11, 1863.
• J. M. Elliston, of Arkansas, for duty with Gen. J. C. Tappan's brigade, to rank January 26, 1863.
• John Cantey, of Alabama, for duty with Gen. J. Cantey's brigade, to rank January 30, 1863.
• John P. Trezevant, of Tennessee, for duty with Gen. M. J. Wright's brigade, to rank January 20, 1863.
• Benjamin F. Carter, of Tennessee, for duty with Gen. J. C. Brown's brigade, to rank January 17, 1863.
• Isaac Scherck, of Arkansas, to be assigned to duty by Maj. Gen. P. R. Cleburne, to rank December 13, 1862.
• C. J. Kinney, of Arkansas, for duty with Gen. F. C. Armstrong's brigade, to rank January 23, 1863.
• H. A. Deas, of Alabama, for duty with Gen. Z. C. Deas' brigade, to rank January 11, 1863.

Assistant commissaries, with the rank of captain.
• P. L. Mynatt, of Tennessee, for duty with First Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, to rank November 21, 1862.
• F. G. Behre, to be assigned to duty by Commissary-General, to rank January 14, 1863.
• G. F. Thatcher, of Louisiana, for duty with Second Louisiana Regiment, to rank December 30, 1862.
• W. H. Anderson, of Tennessee, for duty with Fifteenth Tennessee Regiment, to rank December 20, 1862.
• E. T. Burch, of Virginia, for duty with Fifteenth Virginia Regiment, to rank January 1, 1863.
• H. F. Dunson, of Alabama, for duty with Fourteenth Alabama Regiment, to rank January 3, 1863.
• John M. Zachry, of Georgia, for duty with Twenty-seventh Georgia Regiment, to rank December 29, 1862.
• D. S. Dickinson, of Virginia, for duty with Sixty-fourth Virginia Regiment, to rank January 10, 1863.
• B. M. Burroughs, of Florida, for duty with First Florida Cavalry Regiment, to rank December 22, 1862.

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• J. M. Kern, of Mississippi, for duty with Forty-fifth Mississippi Regiment, to rank December 19, 1862.
• A. F. Hall, of Alabama, for duty with Fifth Alabama Regiment, to rank December 10, 1862.
• J. E. Morecock, of North Carolina, for duty at Goldsboro, N. C., to rank January 16, 1863.
• A. P. Lining, of South Carolina, for duty with Fourth South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, to rank December 30, 1862.
• George P. Elliott, of South Carolina, to be assigned to duty by Gen. W. S. Walker, to rank December 6, 1862.
• W. D. Rankin, of Tennessee, for duty with Sixtieth Tennessee Regiment, to rank December 10, 1862.
• George W. Lamar, of Georgia, for duty with Sixty-third Georgia Regiment, to rank December 29, 1862.
• C. D. Burks, of Georgia, for duty with Sixtieth Georgia Regiment, to rank January 10, 1863.
• J. B. Anderson, of Tennessee, for duty with Twenty-eighth Tennessee Regiment, to rank May 8, 1862.
• W. H. Atwell, of Tennessee, for duty with Seventh Tennessee Regiment, to rank June 15, 1862.
• J. J. Hutchinson, of Alabama for duty with Fifth Alabama Regiment, to rank January 1, 1863.
• H. B. Lane, of North Carolina, for duty with Thirty-first North Carolina Regiment, to rank January 8, 1863.
• Roger Moore, of North Carolina, for duty with Forty-first North Carolina Regiment, to rank January 4, 1863.
• Owen Fennell, of North Carolina, for duty with First North Carolina Regiment, to rank November 5, 1862.
• James J. Busby, of Tennessee, for duty with Forty-eighth Tennessee Regiment, to rank January 10, 1863.
• H. B. Taliaferro, of Virginia, for duty with Seventeenth Virginia Regiment, to rank December 12, 1862.
• A. Hobday, of Virginia, for duty at King and Queen Court-House, Virginia, to rank January 18, 1863.
• C. V. Morris, of Alabama, for duty with Fifteenth Alabama Regiment, to rank January 1, 1863.
• James McNeill, of Alabama, for duty with Forty-second Alabama Regiment, to rank May 16, 1862.
• S. K. Ingram, of Mississippi, for duty with Fourth Mississippi Regiment, to rank October 6, 1862.
• Hiram Fain, of Tennessee, for duty with Sixty-third Tennessee Regiment, to rank July 30, 1862.
• Robert Tait, of North Carolina, for duty with Eighteenth North Carolina Regiment, to rank May 25, 1861.
• E. Horry Frost, of South Carolina, for duty with Fifth South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, to rank February 3, 1863.
• T. B. Stapleton, of Tennessee, for duty with Fourth Tennessee Regiment, to rank October 1, 1862.
• James F. Gresham, of Mississippi, for duty with Twenty-sixth Mississippi Regiment, to rank September 10, 1862.
• W. T. Noel, of Virginia, for duty with Fiftieth Virginia Regiment, to rank February 6, 1863.
• G. W. Ferrand, of Texas, for duty with Second Texas Regiment, to rank July l, 1862.
• R. H. Downman, of Virginia, for duty with Fourth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 9, 1863.
• John Emmerson, of North Carolina, for duty with Fifty-seventh North Carolina Regiment, to rank February 4, 1863.
• J. C. Meadows, of Alabama, for duty with Thirty-seventh Alabama Regiment, to rank December 1, 1862.
• H. S. Van Eaton, of Mississippi, for duty with Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment, to rank January 19, 1863.
• R. C. Cammack, of Louisiana, for duty with First Louisiana Artillery Regiment, to rank January 1, 1863.
• S. V. Reid, of Virginia, for duty in Tennessee, to be assigned by CommissaryGeneral, to rank February 1, 1863.
• S. C. Means, of South Carolina, for duty with Fourth South Carolina Regiment, to rank January 19, 1863.

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• G. W. Sampson, of Texas, for duty with Sixth Texas Regiment, to rank December 23, 1862.
• J. N. Davis, of Mississippi, for duty with First Mississippi Regiment, to rank October 6, 1862.
• John G. Jones, of Kentucky, for duty with Third Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, to rank November 18, 1862.
• W. H. Armstrong, of Tennessee, for duty with Sixty-first Tennessee Regiment, to rank October 10, 1862.
• C. M. Ohlson, of Arkansas, for duty with Fourth Arkansas Regiment, to rank August 13, 1862.
• J. T. Beveridge, of Tennessee, for duty with Fifty-first Tennessee Regiment, to rank April 22, 1862.
• William Holroyd, of Virginia, for duty with Seventeenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank October 15, 1862.
• William M. Turner, of South Carolina, to be assigned to duty by Commissary-General, to rank January 28, 1863.
• J. W. Armstrong, of Georgia, to be assigned to duty by Commissary-General, to rank January 28, 1863.
• T. U. Dudley, jr., of Virginia, to be assigned to duty by Commissary-General, to rank January 28, 1863.
• O. P. Meares, of North Carolina, for duty with Sixty-first North Carolina Regiment, to rank January 24, 1862.
• Edw. Smith, of Virginia, for duty with Forty-fifth Virginia Regiment, to rank May 10, 1862.
• L. McDonald, of Virginia, for duty with Sixteenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 22, 1863.
• C. A. Neilson, of Mississippi, for duty with Thirty-fifth Mississippi Regiment, to rank July 17, 1862.
• W. H. Murrell, of Missouri, for duty with Fifth Missouri Regiment, to rank March 23, 1862.
• C. Dawson, of Kentucky, for duty with Sixth Kentucky Regiment, to rank January 18, 1863.
• S. J. Calvert, of North Carolina, for duty with Fifty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, to rank October 27, 1862.
• J. P. Murphy, of Louisiana, for duty with Second Louisiana Regiment, to rank January 19, 1863.
• Edward Alston, of North Carolina, for duty with Fourth North Carolina Regiment, to rank January 23, 1863.
• B. G. Boaz, of Georgia, for duty with Eleventh Georgia Regiment, to rank January 20, 1863.
• F. Livingston, of Florida, for duty at Camp of Instruction, Florida, to rank December 22, 1862.
• D. B. Thompson, of Virginia, for duty with Thirtieth Virginia Battalion, to rank January 18, 1863.
• John R. Wills, of Virginia, for duty with Twenty-eighth Virginia Regiment, to rank December 1, 1862.
• J. J. Villepigue, of South Carolina, for duty with Second South Carolina Regiment, to rank November 18, 1862.
• P. Harrison, of Virginia, for duty with Eighteenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 10, 1863.
• W. H. Sale, of Virginia, for duty with First Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank July 14, 1862.
• George Wray, of Virginia, for duty with Maj. Gen. J. B. Magruder, to rank February 13, 1863.
• T. E. Stanley, of South Carolina, for duty with Twenty-first South Carolina Regiment, to rank January 1, 1863.
• W. A. Hall, of Tennessee, for duty with Seventh Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 22, 1863.
• John J. Jelks, of Georgia, for duty with Twenty-sixth Georgia Regiment, to rank January 10, 1863.
• D. N. Leach, of Alabama, for duty with Thirty-fourth Alabama Regiment, to rank January 27, 1863.
• T. D. Reeves, of Texas, for duty with Second Texas Cavalry Regiment, to rank October 11, 1862.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAS. A. SEDDON,
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.

Richmond, February 28, 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:

Adjutants, with rank of first lieutenant.
• R. F. Sloan, of Tennessee, to be adjutant Fifth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, to rank May 24, 1862.
• H. A. Walker, of North Carolina, to be adjutant Thirteenth North Carolina Regiment, to rank December 20, 1862.
• J. F. Fuller, of Tennessee, to be adjutant Thirty-first Tennessee Regiment, to rank September 4, 1862.
• A. L. McFee, of Louisiana, to be adjutant Thirty-first Louisiana Regiment, to rank December 23, 1862.
• T. J. Moore, of North Carolina, to be adjutant Fifty-ninth North Carolina Regiment, to rank December 30, 1862.
• F. Foster, of Mississippi, to be adjutant Forty-fifth Mississippi Regiment, to rank April 23, 1862.
• J. R. Carwile, of South Carolina, to be adjutant Seventh South Carolina Regiment, to rank January 13, 1863.
• N. B. Clinch, of Georgia, to be adjutant Fourth Georgia Cavalry Regiment, to rank December 29, 1862.
• J. H. Bullock, of Arkansas, to be adjutant Eighteenth Arkansas Regiment, to rank September 16, 1862.
• J. M. McKleroy, of Alabama, to be adjutant Slaughter's battalion, to rank October 2, 1862.
• R. J. Washington, of Virginia, to be adjutant Ninth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank October 18, 1862.
• W. E. Munford, of Tennessee, to be adjutant Fourteenth Tennessee Regiment, to rank November 1, 1862.
• William Wade, of Virginia, to be adjutant Fourth Virginia Regiment, to rank October 10, 1862.
• C. H. Ragsdale, of South Carolina, to be adjutant First South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 5, 1863.
• R. J. Prather, of Arkansas, to be adjutant First Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, to rank September 1, 1862.
• F. Strange, of North Carolina, to be adjutant First North Carolina Regiment, to rank December 30, 1862.
• T. F. Mitchell, of Georgia, to be adjutant Tenth Confederate Regiment, to rank January 31, 1863.
• W. N. Rose, of South Carolina, to be adjutant Sixteenth South Carolina Regiment, to rank December 1, 1862.
• A. M. Waddell, of North Carolina, to be adjutant Forty-first North Carolina Regiment, to rank January 4, 1863.
• W. J. Wood, of South Carolina, to be adjutant First South Carolina Regiment, to rank January 8, 1863.
• T. J. Portis, of Alabama, to be adjutant Sixty-second Alabama Regiment, to rank May 16, 1862.
• U. L. York, of Tennessee, to be adjutant Sixty-third Tennessee Regiment, to rank July 30, 1862.
• M. F. Gordon, of Virginia, to be adjutant French's Battalion, to rank October 15, 1862.
• W. S. Pope, of Tennessee, to be adjutant Seventh Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 22, 1863.
• T. L. Sanford, of Alabama, to be adjutant Thirty-seventh Alabama Regiment, to rank December 1, 1862.

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• J. B. Marsden, of Virginia, to be adjutant First Virginia Battalion, to rank January 1, 1863.
• W. S. Williamson, of North Carolina, to be adjutant Eighth North Carolina Regiment, to rank November 1, 1862.
• John D. Watson, of Virginia, to be adjutant Fifty-seventh Virginia Regiment, to rank January 21, 1863.
• W. O. Butler, jr., of Kentucky, to be adjutant Third Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, to rank November 18, 1862.
• James D. Thomas, of Tennessee, to be adjutant Sixty-first Tennessee Regiment, to rank September 5, 1862.
• James O. Ferrell, of South Carolina, to be adjutant Nineteenth South Carolina Regiment, to rank December 4, 1862.
• H. B. Barbour, of Virginia, to be adjutant Seventeenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 28, 1863.
• James M. Wade, of Virginia, to be adjutant Fifty-fourth Virginia Regiment, to rank January 18, 1863.
• J. P. Whitman, of Virginia, to be adjutant Sixteenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 22, 1863.
• J. P. Gaston, of North Carolina, to be adjutant Sixty-fourth North Carolina Regiment, to rank February 1, 1863.
• A. M. Moore, of Alabama, to be adjutant Thirty-third Alabama Regiment, to rank July 1, 1862.
• J. F. Greenwood, of Missouri, to be adjutant Fifth Missouri Regiment, to rank September 1, 1862.
• B. A. Griffin, of Texas, to be adjutant Eighth Texas Regiment, to rank January 1, 1863.
• L. Frank Dozier, of South Carolina, to be adjutant Twenty-first South Carolina Regiment, to rank January 1, 1863.
• B. W. Ball, of South Carolina, to be adjutant Hampton Legion, to rank November 5, 1862.
• S. R. Hensley, of North Carolina, to be adjutant Sixteenth North Carolina Regiment, to rank January 24, 1863.
• A. J. Robert, of Georgia, to be adjutant Fourth Georgia Regiment, to rank November 1, 1862.
• J. H. Robinson, of North Carolina, to be adjutant Fifty-second North Carolina Regiment, to rank November 1, 1862.
• F. J. Haywood, jr., of North Carolina, to be adjutant Fifth North Carolina Regiment, to rank January 26, 1863.
• J. Cameron, of Virginia, to be adjutant Eighteenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank January 10, 1863.
• T. C. James, of North Carolina, to be adjutant Third North Carolina Regiment, to rank January 26, 1863.
• J. R. Bisland, of Louisiana, to be adjutant Twenty-sixth Louisiana Regiment, to rank January 17, 1863.
• B. H. Lofton, of Georgia, to be adjutant Fifteenth Georgia Regiment, to rank January 30, 1863.
• R. F. Jones, of Mississippi, to be adjutant Seventh Mississippi Regiment, to rank September 25, 1862.
• W. D. Waller, of Virginia, to be adjutant Thirty-sixth Virginia Battalion, to rank February 5, 1863.
• D. W. Oates, of North Carolina, to be adjutant Thirty-seventh North Carolina Regiment, to rank December 1, 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.

Richmond, March 2, 1863.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

Agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, I nominate J. C. Moore, of Texas, to be brigadier-general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

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Confederate States of America, War Department,
Richmond, February 18, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the nomination of J. C. Moore, of Texas, to be brigadier-general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America, to take rank from May 26, 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.

Richmond, February 27, 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:

Colonels.
• Lieut. Col. H. K. Aiken, of South Carolina, to be colonel Fifth South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, to rank November 1, 1862.
• L. L. Lomax, of Virginia, to be colonel Eleventh Virginia Cavalry Regiment, to rank February 5, 1863.

Lieutenant-colonel.
• Maj. E. P. Tayloe, of Virginia, to be lieutenant-colonel Twenty-second Virginia Battalion, to rank November 20, 1862.

Major.
• Capt. H. L. Andrews, of North Carolina, to be major Second North Carolina Battalion, to rank October 1, 1862.

Second lieutenants.
• J. W. Marshall, of South Carolina, to be second lieutenant, First South Carolina Regiment (enlisted men), to rank October 8, 1862.
• F. M. Williams, of Louisiana, to be second lieutenant, First Louisiana Artillery Regiment, to rank January 31, 1863.
• F. C. Lucas, of South Carolina, to be second lieutenant Company C, Lucas Artillery Battalion, to rank January 23, 1863.
• H. Austill, of Alabama, to be second lieutenant, First Alabama Artillery Battalion, to rank January 26, 1863.
• R. Tarleton, of Alabama, to be second lieutenant, First Alabama Battalion, to rank February 5, 1863.
• S. G. Battle, jr., of Alabama, to be second lieutenant, First Alabama Battalion, February 10, 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, February 28, 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.

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Confederate States of America, War Department,
Richmond, February 27, 1863.

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

Commandant of conscripts and enrolling officers.
• L. Peck, of Tennessee, to be major, for duty as commandant Camp of Instruction, Rogersville, Tenn., to rank February 4, 1863.
• D. C. Pearson, of North Carolina to be captain, for duty as enrolling officer, Ninth Congressional district, North Carolina, to rank February 2, 1863.
• Howard Lindsley, of Missouri, to be captain for enrollment of conscripts in Arkansas, to rank February 16, 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, February 27, 1863.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

I nominate the persons 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 27, 1863.

The President.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Navy, under act No. 331, approved December 24, 1861:

Lieutenants for the war.
• John W. Murdaugh, of Virginia; William H. Odenheimer, of Georgia.

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.

Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom had been referred (on the 13th ultimo) the nomination of W. H. T. Walker, to be brigadier-general, reported, with the recommendation that said nomination be confirmed.

The Senate proceeded to consider said report; and in concurrence therewith, it was

Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of W. H. T. Walker as brigadier-general, agreeably to the nomination of the President.

On motion by Mr. Maxwell,

The Senate resolved into open legislative session.

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