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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, March 13, 1863.
OPEN SESSION.
A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. McDonald:
Mr. President: The House of Representatives have passed a joint resolution (S. 8) of the Senate, relating to the production of provisions, with an amendment; in which amendment I am directed to ask the concurrence of the Senate.
They have passed, without amendment, a bill of the Senate (S. 8) to provide and organize engineer troops to serve during the war.
Mr. Clay (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 83) relative to the Medical Department of the Regular Army of the Confederate States;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Clay (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 84) to amend an act entitled "An act to prohibit the exportation of cotton from the Confederate States, except through the seaports of said States, and to punish persons offending therein," approved May 21, 1861;
which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Mr. Mitchel (by leave) introduced
A bill (S. 85) to establish a preferred mail across the Mississippi River;
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which was read the first and second times and referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads.
Mr. Maxwell submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
Resolved, That on and after Monday next, the regular hour of meeting of the Senate for the remainder of this session shall be eleven o'clock antemeridian.
Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred a bill (S. 81) to provide for the payment of certain North Carolina troops from the time of their enlistment, reported it without amendment.
The Senate proceeded, as in Committee of the Whole, to the consideration of the bill (S. 81) last mentioned; 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.
The Senate proceeded to the consideration of the amendment of the House of Representatives to the joint resolution (S. 8) relating to the production of provisions; and it was
Resolved, That the Senate disagree to the amendment of the House of Representatives to said resolution.
Ordered, That the Secretary inform the House of Representatives thereof.
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; and
On motion by Mr. Sparrow,
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. 39) to suspend for a limited period the several acts authorizing furloughs to be granted; and
On motion by Mr. Burnett,
Ordered, That it be transferred to the Secret Legislative Calendar.
On Motion by Mr. Burnett,
The Senate resolved into secret legislative session.
The doors having been opened,
Mr. Yancey, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 15) for the establishment and equalization of the grade of officers of the Navy of the Confederate States, and for other purposes, reported it with amendments.
On motion by Mr. Yancey,
Ordered, That the bill and amendments be printed.
Mr. Yancey, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 20) to reorganize the Medical Corps of the Confederate States Navy, reported it without amendment.
On motion by Mr. Yancey,
Ordered, That it lie on the table.
On motion by Mr. Yancey,
Ordered, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the memorial of lieutenants in the Confederate
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States Navy, praying the passage of an act allowing them the rank and pay of lieutenants commanding while serving as ordnance officers on shore, and that it lie upon the table.
On motion by Mr. Simms,
Ordered, That when the Senate adjourn it be to Monday next.
On motion by Mr. Haynes,
The Senate adjourned.
SECRET SESSION.
On motion by Mr. Burnett, that the bill (S. 39) to suspend for a limited period the several acts authorizing furloughs to be granted, be considered in secret legislative session,
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. Baker, Barnwell, Brown, Burnett, Caperton, Clay, Davis, Haynes, Henry, Hill, Hunter, Johnson of Arkansas, Maxwell, Mitchel, Oldham, Phelan, Semmes, Sparrow, Wigfall, and Yancey.
Those who voted in the negative are,
Messrs. Clark, Orr, and Simms.
So the Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the said bill.
On motion by Mr. Hill, to amend the bill by inserting after the word "granted," line 2, the words "to privates, or leaves of absence to officers,"
It was determined in the affirmative.
On motion by Mr. Semmes, to amend the bill by inserting after the word "furloughs," line 4, the words "or leaves of absence,"
It was determined in the affirmative.
No further amendment being made, 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 and the title was amended.
On the question,
Shall the bill now pass?
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. Barnwell, Burnett, Clay, Haynes, Henry, Hill, Hunter Maxwell, Phelan, Semmes, Sparrow, Wigfall, and Yancey.
Those who voted in the negative are,
Messrs. Baker, Brown, Caperton, Clark, Davis, Johnson of Arkansas, Mitchel, Oldham, Orr, and Simms.
So it was
Resolved, That this bill pass, and that the title thereof be "An act to suspend, for a limited period, the several acts authorizing furloughs and leaves of absence to be granted."
Ordered, That the Secretary request the concurrence of the House of Representatives therein.
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The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the joint resolution (S. 6) in relation to foreign affairs.
The first three amendments reported by the Committee on Foreign Affairs having been agreed to,
After debate,
On motion by Mr. Semmes,
The Senate resolved into executive session.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
The following messages were received from the President of the Confederate States, by Mr. B. N. Harrison, his Secretary:
Confederate States of America, Executive Department,
Richmond, March 12, 1863.
To the Senate of the Confederate States:
Agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, I nominate Judge J. A. Campbell, of Alabama, to be Assistant Secretary of War, to date from October 21, 1862.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Confederate States of America, War Department,
Richmond, March 10, 1863.
Sir: I have the honor to recommend the nomination of Judge J. A. Campbell, of Alabama, to be Assistant Secretary of War, to date from October 21, 1862.
I have the honor to be, respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War.
His Excellency the President.
The message was read.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Confederate States of America, Executive Department,
Richmond, March 12, 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, March 9, 1863.
Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America:
I have the honor to be, 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.
Confederate States of America, Executive Office,
Richmond, March 12, 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, January 31, 1863.
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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P. Harden, Georgia; Robert H. Edmunds, South Carolina; Christopher Happoldt, North Carolina; Francis O. Dannelly, Georgia; Thomas W. Hutson, South Carolina; Joseph Jones, Georgia; Robert M. Hill, Alabama; Henry O. McEnery, Louisiana; Noah B. Cloud, Alabama; Anthony P. Pelzer, South Carolina; Robert Lebby, sr., South Carolina; J. E. A. Davidson, Florida; Sheldon Stringer, Florida; Jonas P. Moore, Mississippi; U. R. Milner, Louisiana; William B. Wall, Mississippi; Thomas F. Clardy, Kentucky; J. W. Thompson, Kentucky; Henry S. Cox, Tennessee; Wilbur F. Hyer, Mississippi; John C. Merrill, Mississippi; Kelly Williams, Mississippi; N. A. Davis, Missouri; G. C. Phillips, Mississippi; Robert A. Price, Missouri; Richard L. Butt, Tennessee; Charles Mann, Kentucky; George W. Riggins, Missouri; Benjamin F. Hall, Arkansas; Edward W. Cade, Texas; Ebenezer Jones, Texas; Eugene W. Herndon, Missouri; Akin M. Sublett, Missouri; Edwin E. Harris, Missouri; David R. Wallace, Texas; U. V. Walker, Texas; G. G. Farnandis, Maryland; Thomas J. Workman, South Carolina; William Thomas Jones, Virginia; John Geddings Hardy, North Carolina; William Jennings, Kentucky; John H. Morton, Tennessee; William B. Welch, Arkansas; C. Dorsey Baer, Missouri; James A. L. Purdom, Arkansas; John J. Grinstead, Missouri; G. N. Beaumont, Missouri; Henry B. Horlbeck, South Carolina; Peter G. Snowden, South Carolina; T. J. Taliaferro, Tennessee.
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Little, North Carolina; Francis Gillam, North Carolina; Marcus A. Butler, Florida; Benjamin W. Sparks, Georgia; John S. Murphy, Louisiana; Charles Lee Dunkley, Virginia; Albert C. Byrne, Virginia; James C. Green, Virginia; Joseph H. Vaughan, Louisiana; William T. Goldsmith, Georgia; Robert H. Bush, Virginia; Thomas H. Beaty, Mississippi; David Steel, Virginia; Edwin W. Gordon, Virginia; George M. Burdett, Georgia; Henry G. Land, Virginia; Isaiah Bee, Virginia; William D. Brogle, Maryland; Henry W. Waters, Texas; A. A. Laurence, Texas; Junius J. Broyles, South Carolina; William R. Gunn, Mississippi; William A. Bickers, Virginia; Marcellus E. Vason, Georgia; William C. Kloman, Maryland; Lafayette J. Jones, Virginia; Charles H. Todd, Louisiana; Thomas Smith, Virginia; William E. Herring, Mississippi; Skirving Price, South Carolina; William L. Nichols, Georgia; David G. Coit, South Carolina; John C. Staunton, Mississippi; John J. Terrell, Virginia; James W. Oliver, Virginia; J. T. Scott, Arkansas; E. Miller, South Carolina; J. W. Naul, Louisiana; B. W. Lauderdale, Tennessee; N. D. Phillips, Mississippi; S. H. Peacock, Georgia; J. E. Wilson, Louisiana; T. P. Bailey, South Carolina; Charles A. McKinley, Georgia; J. W. Beall, Mississippi; J. F. Crawford, Mississippi; T. W. Nichols, Tennessee; A. C. Crymes, Alabama; J. L. Westbrook, Tennessee; G. W. Evans, Tennessee; C. M. Sitman, Tennessee; X. Xaupi, Louisiana; T. R. Meux, Tennessee; R. H. Sizmore, Tennessee; James O. Fox, Mississippi; A. A. Powell, Mississippi; W. M. Wright, Tennessee; J. B. F. Hill, Alabama; J. P. Allison, Mississippi; A. A. Bruce, Tennessee; Charles Smith, Virginia; T. G. Birchett, Mississippi; A. J. Manning, Louisiana; W. B. Dale, Alabama; L. H. Cohen, Louisiana; H. P. Rider, Missouri; John R. Kirkland, Mississippi; Charles E. Bellamy, Mississippi; William W. Lambdin, Arkansas; Joseph W. Harvey, Missouri; J. N. Outten, Kentucky; George W. Lockhart, Mississippi; George D. Hall, Alabama; E. B. Lott, Mississippi; William S. Lee, Florida; R. M. Tindall, Mississippi; S. R. Olliphant, Mississippi; J. M. Heard, Mississippi; S. N. Denham, Missouri; John L. Moore, Georgia; G. T. Pursley, Arkansas; John F. Kennedy, Mississippi; Edwin C. Lyles, Mississippi; T. W. Yates, Texas; Harnet Pinson, Arkansas; John Gerdine, Mississippi; J. Purvis Jenkins, Louisiana; D. R. Hewitt, Kentucky; N. J. Thompson, Mississippi; Samuel Parker, Mississippi; J. Jeff. Hale, Mississippi; John P. Furniss, Mississippi; John H. Brack, Mississippi; M. Deavenport, Mississippi; George H. Moore, Louisiana; J. S. Meriwether, Alabama; James B. Wiggins, South Carolina; James M. Warren, South Carolina; William T. Grant, Georgia; James B. Hinkle, Georgia; Robert D. Jackson, Alabama; John F. McLane, Georgia; Wilfred Du Pont, South Carolina; Frank R. Calhoun, South Carolina; William M. Inabnett, South Carolina; Matthew W. Abney, South Carolina; William H. Benson, Alabama; James H. Houston, Alabama; Robert Q. Stacy, Georgia; William Magill, Georgia; George S. Trezevant, South Carolina; George H. Bright, South Carolina; Hilliard H. Harley, Louisiana; E. R. Vernon, Tennessee; J. C. Word, Tennessee; Henry J. Warmuth, Georgia; Charles Hardee, Florida; R. T. De Aragon, Texas; H. F. Oliver, Alabama; S. C. Caldwell, Tennessee; Robert G. Rothrock, Tennessee; J. J. Wade, Mississippi; Benjamin C. Blake, Alabama; John M. Lemmon, Missouri; A. S. Yarborough, Mississippi; D. B. Peirce, Mississippi; J. M. Haynes, Mississippi; Albert R. Taber, South Carolina; Gustavus G. Roy, Georgia; David H. Connally, Georgia; Thomas S. Mitchell, Georgia; Robert Wilson, South Carolina; William C. Silliman, Louisiana; Lewis D. Carson, South Carolina; William D. Weldon, Georgia; Charles B. Addison, Georgia; Eldridge T. McSwain, South Carolina; Nicholas P. Marlow, Alabama; John P. Cameron, Georgia; Esidro J. Oliveros, Georgia; Theodosius Alston, South Carolina; Thomas H. Wilkerson, Georgia; Thomas P. Gary, Florida; Edward H. Sholl, Alabama; George W. Coxwell, Georgia; Benjamin J. Moseley, Georgia; Allen T. Lipford, Florida; Thomas J. Palmer, Alabama; S. W. Franklin, Mississippi; C. L. Evans, Mississippi; James W. Dupree, Louisiana; Lea Williamson, Mississippi; E. B. Blocker, Texas; F. A. Anderson, Kentucky; R. T. Wilson, Mississippi; James W. Miller, Mississippi; William J. Armstrong, Tennessee; A. M. King, Mississippi; T. J. Rogers, Mississippi; Martin S. Schofield, Missouri; William C. Lewis, Louisiana; Anderson McCarty, Mississippi; H. H. Ferrell, Mississippi; Richard N. Venable, Mississippi; Thomas H. Turner, Arkansas; Robert Duncan, Missouri; John R. Lowther, Arkansas; William P. Smith, Texas; James T. Leath, Arkansas; James L. Davis, Louisiana; F. D. Hallonquist, Texas; David W. Fentress, Texas; Alonzo G. V. Doney, Texas; Robert J. Bell, Missouri; C. C. Taliaferro, Texas; David C. Hewson, Texas; George W. Bryan, Texas; Richard L. Smith, Texas; J. Baldwin Brock, Virginia; William MacN. Whistler, Maryland; Ozy R. Horton, South Carolina; George Stanley King, District of Columbia; Sidney E. Babcock, South Carolina; Andrew Bowie, Alabama; Josiah N. Boggs, Alabama; Julius A. Caldwell, North Carolina; Edward C. Eppes, Virginia; William Morris, Virginia; James J. Palmer, Georgia; M. A. Shackelford, Georgia; A. P. McCullough, Tennessee; Benjamin F. Duvall, Kentucky; John S. Pride, Tennessee; William
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G. Gamble, Alabama; Louis D. Carter, Tennessee; James S. McDonough, Tennessee; James S. Fish, Georgia; John Goodman, Tennessee; Charles P. Bogan, Arkansas; John G. Russell, Missouri; William S. Fowler, Texas; S. O. B. Crockett, Mississippi; Thomas B. Benedict, Louisiana; R. H. Rutherford, Arkansas; James H. Mullins, Texas; William J. Cocke, Texas; Edward Pollard, Virginia; John R. Hinton, Virginia; Robert C. Carroll, Georgia; Edwin E. Kellam, South Carolina; Peter Goolrick, Virginia; Isaac R. Godwin, Virginia; Reginald H. Goode, Virginia; John A. Nelson, Virginia; Joseph C. Vaiden, Virginia; Jason F. Norman, South Carolina; David M. Clarke, South Carolina; Henry Briscoe, Maryland; William A. Shelby, Georgia; Eleazar A. Pyatt, Tennessee; Richard Fowler, Florida; William A. Anderson, Mississippi; A. Thornburgh, Georgia; John Carmichael, Arkansas; Hugh M. Rogers, North Carolina; George G. Mathews, Alabama; Benjamin Franklin, Tennessee; William C. Bellamy, Alabama; Alfred M. Alsbrook, Tennessee; Henry Dye, Texas; James B. Simons, Arkansas; N. F. Kirkland, South Carolina; Henry T. Heard, Mississippi; Lewis Stephens, Mississippi; P. D. Coulson, Tennessee; Henry L. Burton, Arkansas; S. C. Young, Mississippi; Benjamin F. Kittrell, Mississippi; R. H. Jones, Mississippi.
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., March 12, 1863.
To the Senate of the Confederate States:
I hereby nominate Vans M. Robertson, to be postmaster at Huntsville, Ala., agreeably to the recommendation of the Postmaster-General.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Confederate States of America, Post-Office Department,
Richmond, March 12, 1863.
Sir: I have the honor to recommend for appointment as postmaster at Huntsville, Madison County, Ala., with the advice and consent of the Senate, Vans M. Robertson, esq., who was appointed during the recess of the Senate.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN H. REAGAN,
Postmaster-General.
The President.
The message was read.
On motion by Mr. Clay,
The Senate proceeded to consider the nomination of Vans M. Robertson, to be postmaster at Huntsville, Ala.; and it was
Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to his appointment, agreeably to the nomination of the President.
Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred (on the 10th instant) the nominations of J. H. Barker, W. H. Blackwell, James T. Proctor, E. S. Trout, Judson M. Kent, C. P. Toney, William H. Huff, J. M. Spencer, J. D. F. Thompson, John J. Dempster, J. T. Smith, John D. Talbert, James G. Lyell, Thomas S. Wilkerson, T. B. Tompkins, John M. Kidd, John R. Merritt, William Shelton, to be second lieutenants (for distinguished valor and skill); C. L. C. Dupuy, George E. Strawbridge, Jacob C. Purdy, Charles A. Devall, to be second lieutenants (artillery); John A. Minnis, H. H. Bein, John B. Kent, Joseph E. Haynes, John W. Wofford, William M. Cravens, Edward Y. Clarke, A. P. Forsyth, R. S. Folger, J. C. Porter, Paul Jones, jr., R. H. Cunningham, F. P. Koonce, Felix Warley, Henry Piussan, Ives Smedes, R. T. Watts, O. E. Stuart, Lucius H. Smith, J. S. Richardson, Thomas J. Hall, jr., William P. Frink, Thomas Lewis, Grafton Tyler, W. H. Stewart, to be adjutants,
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with the rank of first lieutenant, 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 their respective nominations by the President.
On motion by Mr. Simms,
The Senate resolved into open legislative session.
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