1st Confederate States Congress

1862–1864 Confederate meeting First Confederate Congress Provisional Congress Provisional Congress of the Confederate States February 2017 February 2017 1st Confederate States Congress Seal of the Confederate States of America.svg Equestrian portrait of Washington (after the statue which surmounts his monument in the capitol square, at Richmond,) surrounded with a wreath composed of the principal agricultural products of the Confederacy, (cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, wheat and rice,) and having around its margin the words: "The Confederate States of America, twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," with the following motto: "Deo vindice" Seal of the Confederate States Flag of the Confederate States of America (1863-1865).svgborder Flag of the Confederate States (1863–1865) Bicameral SenateHouse of Representatives 1862 2 18 1864 2 17 Provisional Congress 2nd Senate President Alexander H. Stephens Senate Pres. pro tem: R. M. T. Hunter House Speaker: Thomas S. Bocock Virginia Capitol 1865.jpg 250px Second Capitol of the Confederate States (1861-1865) Virginia State Capitol Richmond, Virginia Confederate States of America Constitution of the Confederate States The 1st Confederate States Congress, consisting of the Confederate States Senate and the Confederate States House of Representatives, convened between February 18, 1862, and February 17, 1864. This assembly took place during the first two years of Jefferson Davis's presidency, convening at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia.Historical Atlas ..., pp. 131-134 Sessions The following sessions were held during the period February 18, 1862, and February 17, 1864, at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. 1st Session – February 18, 1862 to April 21, 1862 2nd Session – August 18, 1862 to October 13, 1862 3rd Session – January 12, 1863 to May 1, 1863 4th Session – December 7, 1863 to February 17, 1864 Leadership Senate center center Senate President Alexander H Stephens by Vannerson, 1859.jpg 165 Alexander H. Stephens Alexander H. Stephens center center President pro tempore Robert M. T. Hunter c1865 (cropped).jpg 165 R. M. T. Hunter R. M. T. Hunter President: Alexander H. Stephens President pro tempore: R. M. T. Hunter House center center House Speaker Thomas S. Bocock (cropped).jpg 165 Thomas S. Bocock Thomas S. Bocock Speaker: Thomas S. Bocock Officers Senate Secretary: James H. Nash, South Carolina Assistant Secretary: Edward H. Stephens, Virginia Journal Clerk: C. T. Bruen, Virginia Recording Clerk: Henry H. Hubbard, Mossy Creek, TennesseeCasper Branner and his Descendants, John C. Branner, 1913, p. 218 Sergeant-at-Arms: Lafayette H. Fitzhugh, Kentucky Doorkeeper: James Page, North Carolina Assistant Doorkeeper: John Wadsworth, Georgia House Clerk: Robert Emmett Dixon Sr., Georgia (died April 24, 1863) Albert Reese Lamar, Georgia — sessions 3 and 4 Assistant Clerk: James McDonald, Virginia Assistant Clerk: David Louis Dalton, Alabama — sessions 3 and 4 Doorkeeper: Robert Harrison Wynne, Alabama Members Senate Confederate States senators were elected by the state legislatures, or appointed by state governors to fill casual vacancies until the legislature elected a new senator. It was intended that one-third of the Senate would commence fresh six-year terms with each subsequent Congress following the inaugural one. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their terms. In this Congress, all senators were newly elected. Senators of Class 1 served a two-year term, expiring at the end of this Congress, requiring a new election for the six-year term,1864–1870. Class 2 senators served what was intended to be a four-year term, due to end on the expiry of the next Congress in 1866. Class 3 senators were meant to serve a six-year term, due to expire at the end of the Third Confederate Congress in 1868. As the Confederate Congress lasted less than four full years, the distinction between classes 2 and 3 was ultimately academic. The members of the classes were selected by drawing of lots, which was done during the meeting of the Senate on February 21, 1862.Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States and Confederate Senate Journal The class is indicated before the name. Alabama 1. Clement Claiborne Clay 3. William Lowndes Yancey (died on July 23, 1863) Robert Jemison Jr. (took his seat on December 28, 1863 - Elected to fill vacancy) Arkansas 1. Robert Ward Johnson 3. Charles Burton Mitchel Florida 1. James McNair Baker 2. Augustus Emmet Maxwell Georgia 3. Benjamin Harvey Hill 1. Robert Augustus Toombs (elected but refused to serve) John Wood Lewis Sr. (took his seat on April 7, 1862 - Appointed to serve until the place could be filled) Herschel Vespasian Johnson (took his seat on January 19, 1863 - Elected to fill vacancy) Kentucky 3. Henry Cornelius Burnett 1. William Emmet Simms Louisiana 2. Thomas Jenkins Semmes 3. Edward Sparrow Mississippi 2. Albert Gallatin Brown 1. James Phelan Sr. Missouri 1. John Bullock Clark Sr. 2. Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton (died on September 3, 1863) Waldo Porter Johnson (took his seat on December 24, 1863 - Appointed to fill vacancy) North Carolina 1. George Davis (resigned in January 1864 to become CS Attorney General) Edwin Godwin Reade (took his seat on January 22, 1864 - Appointed to fill vacancy) 2. William Theophilus Dortch South Carolina 2. Robert Woodward Barnwell 3. James Lawrence Orr Tennessee 3. Landon Carter Haynes 2. Gustavus Adolphus Henry Sr. Texas 3. William Simpson Oldham Sr. 2. Louis Trezevant Wigfall Virginia 3. R. M. T. Hunter 2. William Ballard Preston (died November 16, 1862) Allen Taylor Caperton (took his seat on January 22, 1864 - Elected to fill vacancy) House of Representatives X: Originally member of the Provisional Confederate Congress The names of representatives are preceded by their district numbers. Alabama 1. Thomas Jefferson Foster 2. William Russell Smith 3. John Perkins Ralls 4. Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry X 5. Francis Strother Lyon 6. William Parish Chilton Sr. X 7. David Clopton 8. James Lawrence Pugh 9. Edmund Strother Dargan Arkansas 1. Felix Ives Batson 2. Grandison Delaney Royston 3. Augustus Hill Garland X 4. Thomas Burton Hanly Florida 1. James Baird Dawkins (resigned on December 8, 1862) John Marshall Martin (took his seat on March 25, 1863 - Elected to fill vacancy on February 2, 1863Historical Atlas ..., p. 132) 2. Robert Benjamin Hilton Georgia 1. Julian Hartridge 2. Charles James Munnerlyn 3. Hines Holt (resigned on March 1, 1863 after third session) Porter Ingram (took his seat on January 12, 1864 - Elected to fill vacancy on December 7, 1863) 4. Augustus Holmes Kenan X 5. David William Lewis 6. William White Clark 7. Robert Pleasant Trippe 8. Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell 9. Hardy Strickland 10. Augustus Romaldus Wright X Kentucky 1. Willis Benson Machen 2. John Watkins Crockett Jr. 3. Henry English Read 4. George Washington Ewing X 5. James Chrisman 6. Theodore Legrand BurnettX 7. Horatio Washington Bruce 8. George Baird Hodge X 9. Eli Metcalfe Bruce 10. James William Moore 11. Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. 12. John Milton Elliott X Louisiana 1. Charles Jacques Villeré 2. Charles Magill Conrad X 3. Duncan Farrar Kenner X 4. Lucius Jacques Dupré 5. Henry Marshall X 6. John Perkins Jr. X Mississippi 1. Jeremiah Watkins Clapp 2. Reuben Davis (resigned on March 1, 1863 after third session) William Dunbar Holder (took his seat on January 21, 1864 - Elected to fill vacancy) 3. Israel Victor Welch 4. Henry Cousins Chambers 5. Otho Robards Singleton 6. Ethelbert Barksdale 7. John Jones McRae Missouri According to the Confederate law, the people of Missouri were entitled to elect thirteen representatives. The state never implemented the re-apportionment, and continued to use its existing seven districts. Pending an election, the appointed members of the delegation to the Provisional Congress were assigned to serve in the First Congress. Since No election was held, the appointed members served throughout the Congress.Historical Atlas ... pp. 20 and 62-63 1. William Mordecai Cooke Sr. X (died on September 3, 1863) 2. Thomas Alexander Harris X 3. Caspar Wistar Bell X 4. Aaron H. Conrow X 5. George Graham Vest X 6. Thomas W. Freeman X 7. Representative-elect John Hyer never took his seat; the district was unrepresented for the entire First Congress North Carolina 1. William N. H. Smith 2. Robert Rufus Bridgers 3. Owen Rand Kenan 4. Thomas David Smith McDowell X 5. Archibald Hunter Arrington 6. James Robert McLean 7. Thomas Samuel Ashe 8. William Lander 9. Burgess Sidney Gaither 10. Allen Turner Davidson X South Carolina 1. John McQueen 2. William Porcher Miles X 3. Lewis Malone Ayer Jr. 4. Milledge Luke Bonham (resigned on October 13, 1862 after the second session) William Dunlap Simpson (took his seat on February 5, 1863 - Elected to fill vacancy on January 20, 1863Historical Atlas ..., p. 133) 5. James Farrow 6. William Waters Boyce X Tennessee 1. Joseph Brown Heiskell (resigned on February 6, 1864) 2. William Graham Swan 3. William Henry Tibbs 4. Erasmus Lee Gardenhire 5. Henry Stuart Foote 6. Meredith Poindexter Gentry 7. George Washington Jones 8. Thomas Menees 9. John DeWitt Clinton Atkins X 10. John Vines Wright 11. David Maney Currin X Texas 1. John Allen Wilcox (died on February 7, 1864) 2. Caleb Claiborne Herbert 3. Peter W. Gray 4. Franklin Barlow Sexton 5. Malcolm D. Graham 6. William Bacon Wright Virginia 1. Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (died on February 14, 1864) 2. John Randolph Chambliss Sr. 3. James Lyons (Representative-elect John Tyler died on January 18, 1862, before the Congress started. Lyons was elected on February 10, 1862.Historical Atlas ..., p. 134 and note p. 139) 4. Roger Atkinson Pryor X (resigned on April 5, 1862) Charles Fenton Collier (took his seat on August 18, 1862 - Elected to fill vacancy in May 1862Historical Atlas ..., p. 134) 5. Thomas Stanley Bocock X 6. John Goode Jr. 7. James Philemon Holcombe 8. Daniel Coleman DeJarnette Sr. 9. William "Extra Billy" Smith (resigned on April 4, 1863) David Funsten (took his seat on December 7, 1863 - Elected to fill vacancy) 10. Alexander Boteler X 11. John Brown Baldwin 12. Waller Redd Staples X 13. Walter Preston X 14. Albert Gallatin Jenkins (resigned on April 21, 1862 after first session) Samuel Augustine Miller (took his seat on February 24, 1863 - Elected to fill vacancy) 15. Robert Johnston X 16. Charles Wells Russell X Delegates Non voting members of the House of Representatives. Arizona Territory Marcus H. MacWillie Cherokee Nation Elias Cornelius Boudinot X Choctaw Nation Robert McDonald Jones Senate committees Accountshttp://www.csawardept.com/history/Congress/1st/index.html#Accounts-Senate First Confederate Congress (18 February 1862 - 17 February 1864) https://web.archive.org/web/20070208094718/http://www.csawardept.com/history/Congress/1st/index.html#Accounts-Senate February 8, 2007 dead Charles Burton Mitchel, Arkansas, Chairman William Theophilus Dortch, North Carolina William Emmett Simms, Kentucky Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia — temporary, session 3 Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas —temporary, session 3 Claims George Davis, North Carolina, Chairman (resigned on January 11, 1864) Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton, Missouri (died on September 3, 1863) Waldo Porter Johnson, Missouri — session 4 James McNair Baker, Florida — session 4 Robert Jemison Jr., Alabama — temporary, session 4 Commerce Clement Claiborne Clay, Alabama, Chairman Augustus Emmett Maxwell, Florida William Theophilus Dortch, North Carolina Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton, Missouri (died on September 3, 1863) Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky — sessions 1 and 2 James McNair Baker, Florida — session 3 William Simpson Oldham Sr., Texas — sessions 3 and 4 James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina — session 4 Engrossment and Enrollment Landon Carter Haynes Sr., Tennessee, Chairman — session 1 (appointed, but substituted by James Phelan) James Phelan, Mississippi, Chairman — sessions 1 and 2 William Theophilus Dortch, North Carolina, Chairman — sessions 3 and 4 Augustus Emmett Maxwell, Florida Charles Burton Mitchel, Arkansas — sessions 1 and 2 Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton, Missouri — session 2 James McNair Baker, Florida — session 2 Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia — sessions 3 and 4 Finance Robert Woodward Barnwell, South Carolina, Chairman Thomas Jenkins Semmes, Louisiana Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Virginia George Davis, North Carolina (resigned on January 11, 1864) Gustavus Adolphus Henry Sr., Tennessee — sessions 1 and 2 John Wood Lewis Sr., Georgia — session 2 Herschel Vespasian Johnson, Georgia — sessions 3 and 4 Edwin Godwin Reade, North Carolina — session 4 Robert Jemison Jr., Alabama — temporary, session 4 Foreign Affairs James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina, Chairman John Bullock Clark Sr., Missouri Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Texas William Lowndes Yancey, Alabama (died on July 26, 1863) William Ballard Preston, Virginia (died on November 16, 1862) Robert M. T. Hunter, Virginia — session 3 Augustus Emmet Maxwell, Florida — sessions 3 and 4 Herschel Vespasian Johnson, Georgia — session 4 Indian Affairs Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas, Chairman William Emmett Simms, Kentucky William Simpson Oldham Sr., Texas Clement Claiborne Clay, Alabama — sessions 1 and 2 Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton, Missouri — sessions 1 and 2 John Bullock Clark Sr., Missouri — sessions 3 and 4 James Phelan, Mississippi — sessions 3 and 4 Judiciary Benjamin Harvey Hill, Georgia, Chairman Thomas Jenkins Semmes, Louisiana Landon Carter Haynes Sr., Tennessee James Phelan, Mississippi Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky — sessions 1 and 2 Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia — sessions 3 and 4 Military Affairs Edward Sparrow, Louisiana, Chairman Gustavus Adolphus Henry Sr., Tennessee Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Texas Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas — sessions 1 and 2 William Ballard Preston, Virginia — sessions 1 and 2 Clement Claiborne Clay, Alabama — sessions 3 and 4 Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky — sessions 3 and 4 Naval Affairs Albert Gallatin Brown, Mississippi, Chairman William Theophilus Dortch, North Carolina William Emmett Simms, Kentucky James McNair Baker, Florida Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky — temporary, session 1 Benjamin Harvey Hill, Georgia — temporary, session 1 George Davis, North Carolina — temporary, sessions 1 and 2 William Simpson Oldham Sr., Texas —sessions 1 and 2 Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas — session 2 Augustus Emmett Maxwell, Florida — session 3 William Lowndes Yancey, Alabama (died on July 26, 1863) — session 3 Herschel Vespasian Johnson, Georgia — sessions 3 and 4 Robert Jemison Jr., Alabama — session 4 Patents Augustus Emmett Maxwell, Florida, Chairman Benjamin Harvey Hill, Georgia Landon Carter Haynes Sr., Tennessee Pay and Mileage (Session 1) Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky, Chairman Gustavus Adolphus Henry Sr., Tennessee James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina Post Offices and Post Roads William Simpson Oldham Sr., Texas, Chairman Landon Carter Haynes Sr., Tennessee Charles Burton Mitchel, Arkansas James McNair Baker, Florida John Bullock Clark Sr., Missouri — sessions 1, 2, and 4 James Phelan, Mississippi — session 1 (appointed but substituted by Landon Carter Haynes) William Emmett Simms, Kentucky —session 1 (appointed but declined) John Wood Lewis Sr., Georgia — session 2 Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton, Missouri (died on September 3, 1863) — session 3 Herschel Vespasian Johnson, Georgia — temporary, session 3 Printing James Phelan, Mississippi, Chairman Benjamin Harvey Hill, Georgia John Bullock Clark Sr., Missouri — sessions 1, 2, and 4 Landon Carter Haynes Sr., Tennessee — sessions 3 and 4 Public Lands John Bullock Clark Sr., Missouri, Chairman James McNair Baker, Florida William Lowndes Yancey, Alabama (died on July 26, 1863) — sessions 1, 2, and 3 Rules (Session 1) James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina, Chairman Clement Claiborne Clay, Alabama Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas Territories Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Texas, Chairman Albert Gallatin Brown, Mississippi William Lowndes Yancey, Alabama — sessions 1 and 2 John Bullock Clark Sr., Missouri — sessions 3 and 4 House committees Accounts John McQueen, 1st South Carolina, Chairman Owen Rand Kenan, 3rd North Carolina Thomas Burton Hanly, 4th Arkansas Thomas Jefferson Foster, 1st Alabama Hardy Strickland, 9th Georgia Willis Benson Machen, 1st Kentucky — session 3 Claims William "Extra Billy" Smith, 9th Virginia, Chairman (resigned on April 4, 1863) — sessions 1 and 3 David Clopton, 7th Alabama Jeremiah Watkins Clapp, 1st Mississippi James Robert McLean, 6th North Carolina Charles James Munnerlyn, 2nd Georgia James Farrow, 5th South Carolina Theodore Legrand Burnett, 6th Kentucky Erasmus Lee Gardenhire, 4th Tennessee Charles Jacques Villeré, 1st Louisiana — sessions 1, 2, and 3 Henry Marshall, 5th Louisiana (appointed but declined) — session 3 William Dunlap Simpson, 4th South Carolina — sessions 3 and 4 Thomas Burton Hanly, 4th Arkansas — session 4 William Bacon Wright, 6th Texas — session 4 Commerce Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, 4th Alabama, Chairman Henry Cousins Chambers, 4th Mississippi Robert Pleasant Trippe, 7th Georgia Horatio Washington Bruce, 7th Kentucky Thomas David Smith McDowell, 4th North Carolina Charles Jacques Villeré, 1st Louisiana Franklin Barlow Sexton, 4th Texas James Lyons, 3rd Virginia William Mordecai Cooke Sr., 1st Missouri (died on September 3, 1863) — sessions 1, 2, and 3 Charles Fenton Collier, 4th Virginia — session 2 Julian Hartridge, 1st Georgia — session 2 Currency (Session 4) William Waters Boyce, 6th South Carolina, Chairman Francis Strother Lyon, 5th Alabama James Lawrence Pugh, 8th Alabama Charles Magill Conrad, 2nd Louisiana Robert Rufus Bridgers, 2nd North Carolina George Washington Jones, 7th Tennessee Peter W. Gray, 3rd Texas John Brown Baldwin, 11th Virginia Robert Johnston, 15th Virginia Elections William N. H. Smith, 1st North Carolina, Chairman Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, 4th Alabama Jeremiah Watkins Clapp, 1st Mississippi George Graham Vest, 5th Missouri Robert Pleasant Trippe, 7th Georgia John Watkins Crockett Jr., 2nd Kentucky Erasmus Lee Gardenhire, 4th Tennessee James Baird Dawkins, 1st Florida (resigned on December 8, 1862) — sessions 1 and 2 Waller Redd Staples, 12th Virginia — sessions 1, 3, and 4 Enrolled Bills John Milton Elliott, 12th Kentucky, Chairman Henry Cousins Chambers, 4th Mississippi John Goode Jr., 6th Virginia — temporary, session 1 Erasmus Lee Gardenhire, 4th Tennessee — temporary, sessions 1, 2, and 4 William Henry Tibbs, 3rd Tennessee — sessions 1, 2, and 3 Augustus Hill Garland, 3rd Arkansas — session 3 John Allen Wilcox, 1st Texas — session 3 Horatio Washington Bruce, 7th Kentucky — temporary, sessions 3 and 4 Thomas W. Freeman, 6th Missouri — session 4 Thomas Burton Hanly, 4th Arkansas — session 4 William Bacon Wright, 6th Texas — session 4 Foreign Affairs Henry Stuart Foote, 5th Tennessee, Chairman William Russell Smith, 2nd Alabama Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., 11th Kentucky John Perkins Jr., 6th Louisiana Ethelbert Barksdale, 6th Mississippi James Robert McLean, 6th North Carolina John McQueen, 1st South Carolina Daniel Coleman DeJarnette Sr., 8th Virginia Walter Preston, 13th Virginia Indian Affairs Otho Robards Singleton, 5th Mississippi, Chairman John Perkins Ralls, 3rd Alabama Thomas Burton Hanly, 4th Arkansas John Milton Elliott, 12th Kentucky Lucius Jacques Dupré, 4th Louisiana Archibald Hunter Arrington, 5th North Carolina William Henry Tibbs, 3rd Tennessee William Bacon Wright, 6th Texas John Goode Jr., 6th Virginia Elias Cornelius Boudinot, Cherokee Nation — session 4 Judiciary Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, 8th Georgia, Chairman Edmund Strother Dargan, 9th Alabama Augustus Hill Garland, 3rd Arkansas James William Moore, 10th Kentucky Thomas Samuel Ashe, 7th North Carolina Joseph Brown Heiskell, 1st Tennessee (resigned on February 6, 1864) James Philemon Holcombe, 7th Virginia Charles Wells Russell, 16th Virginia Medical Department (Sessions 2 - 4) Augustus Romaldus Wright, 10th Georgia, Chairman John Perkins Ralls, 3rd Alabama Grandison Delaney Royston, 2nd Arkansas — sessions 2 and 3 Augustus Hill Garland, 3rd Arkansas — temporary, session 4 Porter Ingram, 3rd Georgia — temporary, session 4 James Chrisman, 5th Kentucky Caspar Wistar Bell, 3rd Missouri William N. H. Smith, 1st North Carolina James Farrow, 5th South Carolina Thomas Menees, 8th Tennessee John Goode Jr., 6th Virginia Military Affairs William Porcher Miles, 2nd South Carolina, Chairman James Lawrence Pugh, 8th Alabama Robert Benjamin Hilton, 2nd Florida Augustus Holmes Kenan, 4th Georgia Eli Metcalfe Bruce, 9th Kentucky Charles Jacques Villeré, 1st Louisiana Henry Cousins Chambers, 4th Mississippi Thomas Alexander Harris, 2nd Missouri Robert Rufus Bridgers, 2nd North Carolina William Graham Swan, 2nd Tennessee John Allen Wilcox, 1st Texas (died on February 7, 1864) Reuben Davis, 2nd Mississippi — session 1 Roger Atkinson Pryor, 4th Virginia (resigned on April 5, 1862) — session 1 Caspar Wistar Bell, 3rd Missouri — temporary, session 1 Felix Ives Batson, 1st Arkansas — sessions 1, 2, and 3 Naval Affairs Charles Magill Conrad, 2nd Louisiana, Chairman David Clopton, 7th Alabama Augustus Romaldus Wright, 10th Georgia Burgess Sidney Gaither, 9th North Carolina William Waters Boyce, 6th South Carolina David Maney Currin, 11th Tennessee John Randolph Chambliss Sr., 2nd Virginia Charles Wells Russell, 16th Virginia — session 1 James Baird Dawkins, 1st Florida (resigned on December 8, 1862) — sessions 1 and 2 William "Extra Billy" Smith, 9th Virginia, (resigned on April 4, 1863) — sessions 1 and 3 George Baird Hodge, 8th Kentucky — sessions 2 and 3 John Marshall Martin, 1st Florida — sessions 3 and 4 Charles Fenton Collier, 4th Virginia — session 4 Thomas W. Freeman, 6th Missouri Charles James Munnerlyn, 2nd Georgia — temporary, session 4 Ordnance and Ordnance Stores (Sessions 2 - 4) Alexander Boteler, 10th Virginia, Chairman David Clopton, 7th Alabama Julian Hartridge, 1st Georgia Charles Magill Conrad, 2nd Louisiana Jeremiah Watkins Clapp, 1st Mississippi John Vines Wright, 10th Tennessee Caleb Claiborne Herbert, 2nd Texas — sessions 2 and 3 George Baird Hodge, 8th Kentucky — sessions 2 and 3 William Mordecai Cooke Sr., 1st Missouri (died on September 3, 1863) — sessions 2 and 3 Lewis Malone Ayer Jr., 3rd South Carolina — session 4 Patents Caspar Wistar Bell, 3rd Missouri, Chairman William Parish Chilton Sr., 6th Alabama Robert Benjamin Hilton, 2nd Florida Hardy Strickland, 9th Georgia Henry English Read, 3rd Kentucky Henry Marshall, 5th Louisiana William Lander, 8th North Carolina William Bacon Wright, 6th Texas Waller Redd Staples, 12th Virginia — sessions 1, 3, and 4 Pay and Mileage (Sessions 1 - 2) Theodore Legrand Burnett, 6th Kentucky, Chairman Augustus Romaldus Wright, 10th Georgia Otho Robards Singleton, 5th Mississippi Robert Rufus Bridgers, 2nd North Carolina (appointed but replaced by Augustus Romaldus Wright due to extended absence) — session 1 Israel Victor Welch, 3rd Mississippi — session 2 Post Offices and Post Roads William Parish Chilton Sr., 6th Alabama, Chairman Robert Benjamin Hilton, 2nd Florida William White Clark, 6th Georgia Aaron H. Conrow, 4th Missouri Allen Turner Davidson, 10th North Carolina John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, 9th Tennessee Robert Johnston, 15th Virginia Israel Victor Welch, 3rd Mississippi — sessions 1 and 2 Grandison Delaney Royston, 2nd Arkansas — sessions 1, 2, and 3 Caleb Claiborne Herbert, 2nd Texas — sessions 1, 2, and 3 Thomas Burton Hanly, 4th Arkansas — session 4 Printing Ethelbert Barksdale, 6th Mississippi, Chairman Augustus Romaldus Wright, 10th Georgia Lucius Jacques Dupré, 4th Louisiana Thomas Menees, 8th Tennessee Albert Gallatin Jenkins, 14th Virginia (resigned April 21, 1862) — session 1 David Funsten, 9th Virginia — session 4 David William Lewis, 5th Georgia — temporary, session 4 William Russell Smith, 2nd Alabama — temporary, session 4 Public Buildings James Lyons, 3rd Virginia, Chairman James Lawrence Pugh, 8th Alabama David Maney Currin, 11th Tennessee Quartermaster's and Commissary Departments and Military Transportation (Sessions 2 - 4) William Parish Chilton Sr., 6th Alabama, Chairman William White Clark, 6th Georgia John Jones McRae, 7th Mississippi William Lander, 8th North Carolina Lewis Malone Ayer Jr., 3rd South Carolina Franklin Barlow Sexton, 4th Texas Walter Preston, 13th Virginia James Baird Dawkins, 1st Florida (resigned on December 8, 1862) — session 2 Henry Marshall, 5th Louisiana — sessions 2 and 3 Grandison Delaney Royston, 2nd Arkansas — session 3 Allen Turner Davidson, 10th North Carolina — temporary, session 3; permanent, session 4 Israel Victor Welch, 3rd Mississippi — temporary, session 4 Henry Stuart Foote, 5th Tennessee — session 4 Robert Pleasant Trippe, 7th Georgia — session 4 Thomas Burton Hanly, 4th Arkansas — session 4 Rules and Officers of the House (Sessions 1 - 3) George Washington Jones, 7th Tennessee, Chairman David William Lewis, 5th Georgia John Perkins Jr., 6th Louisiana William N. H. Smith, 1st North Carolina Alexander Boteler, 10th Virginia Territories and Public Lands John Allen Wilcox, 1st Texas, Chairman (died February 7, 1864) Thomas Jefferson Foster, 1st Alabama David William Lewis, 5th Georgia George Washington Ewing, 4th Kentucky Henry Marshall, 5th Louisiana Thomas W. Freeman, 6th Missouri Thomas Menees, 8th Tennessee Albert Gallatin Jenkins, 14th Virginia (resigned on April 21, 1862) —session 1 Felix Ives Batson, 1st Arkansas — sessions 1, 2, and 3 Samuel Augustine Miller, 14th Virginia — session 4 War Tax (Session 2) Lewis Malone Ayer Jr., 3rd South Carolina, Chairman Francis Strother Lyon, 5th Alabama Thomas Burton Hanly, 4th Arkansas Robert Benjamin Hilton, 2nd Florida William White Clark, 6th Georgia James Chrisman, 5th Kentucky Israel Victor Welch, 3rd Mississippi Aaron H. Conrow, 4th Missouri William Lander, 8th North Carolina Joseph Brown Heiskell, 1st Tennessee Franklin Barlow Sexton, 4th Texas Charles Fenton Collier, 4th Virginia Ways and Means Duncan Farrar Kenner, 3rd Louisiana, Chairman — sessions 1, 2, and 3 Francis Strother Lyon, 5th Alabama Willis Benson Machen, 1st Kentucky John Jones McRae, 7th Mississippi George Washington Jones, 7th Tennessee Malcolm D. Graham, 5th Texas John Brown Baldwin, 11th Virginia Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett, 1st Virginia — session 1 Milledge Luke Bonham, 4th South Carolina (resigned on October 13, 1862) — session 1 and 2 Hines Holt, 3rd Georgia (resigned March 1, 1863) — sessions 1, 2, and 3 William Waters Boyce, 6th South Carolina — sessions 3 and 4 Julian Hartridge, 1st Georgia — session 4 John Perkins Jr., 6th Louisiana — session 4 Joint committees Buildings (Session 1) Senators Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky, Chairman James McNair Baker, Florida George Davis, North Carolina Representatives James Lyons, 3rd Virginia, Chairman James Lawrence Pugh, 8th Alabama David Maney Currin, 11th Tennessee Engrossment and Enrollment (Session 1) Senators James Phelan Sr., Mississippi, Chairman Charles Burton Mitchel, Arkansas Augustus Emmet Maxwell, Florida Representatives John Milton Elliott, 12th Kentucky, Chairman Henry Cousins Chambers, 4th Mississippi William Henry Tibbs, 3rd Tennessee Erasmus Lee Gardenhire, 4th Tennessee — temporary Flag and Seal (Sessions 1 - 3) Senators Thomas Jenkins Semmes, Louisiana, Chairman James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina William Ballard Preston, Virginia (died on November 16, 1862) — sessions 1 and 2 Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Texas — session 3 Representatives Alexander Boteler, 10th Virginia, Chairman William Russell Smith, 2nd Alabama Peter W. Gray, 3rd Texas Inauguration (Session 1) Senators James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina, Chairman Albert Gallatin Brown, Mississippi Gustavus Adolphus Henry Sr., Tennessee Representatives James Lyons, 3rd Virginia, Chairman Francis Strother Lyon, 5th Alabama Felix Ives Batson, 1st Arkansas Robert Benjamin Hilton, 2nd Florida Hines Holt, 3rd Georgia Horatio Washington Bruce, 7th Kentucky Henry Marshall, 5th Louisiana Otho Robards Singleton, 5th Mississippi William Mordecai Cooke Sr., 1st Missouri Thomas David Smith McDowell, 4th North Carolina John McQueen, 1st South Carolina William Graham Swan, 2nd Tennessee John Allen Wilcox, 1st Texas Printing Senators James Phelan Sr., Mississippi, Chairman Benjamin Harvey Hill, Georgia John Bullock Clark Sr., Missouri — sessions 1, 2, and 4 Landon Carter Haynes Sr., Tennessee — sessions 3 and 4 Representatives Ethelbert Barksdale, 6th Mississippi, Chairman Augustus Romaldus Wright, 10th Georgia Lucius Jacques Dupré, 4th Louisiana Thomas Menees, 8th Tennessee Albert Gallatin Jenkins, 14th Virginia (resigned April 21, 1862) — session 1 David Funsten, 9th Virginia — session 4 William Russell Smith, 2nd Alabama — temporary, session 4 David William Lewis, 5th Georgia — temporary, session 4 Rules (Session 1) Senators James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina, Chairman Clement Claiborne Clay, Alabama Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas William Lowndes Yancey, Alabama Representatives Thomas Stanley Bocock, 5th Virginia, Chairman Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, 4th Alabama David William Lewis, 5th Georgia John Perkins Jr., 6th Louisiana George Washington Jones, 7th Tennessee Notes 30em References The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America: 1861-1865, by Kenneth C. Martis (Simon and Schuster 1994) Category:1862 establishments in Virginia Category:1864 disestablishments in Virginia