The 2nd Confederate States Congress, consisting of the Confederate States Senate and the Confederate States House of Representatives, met from May 2, 1864, to March 18, 1865, during the last year of Jefferson Davis's presidency, at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia;[1] the Confederacy's government effectively dissolved 16 days later, when it fled Richmond on April 3, 1865. Its members were elected in the 1863 congressional elections.
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Held May 2, 1864, through March 18, 1865, at the Virginia State Capital in Richmond, Virginia. The term of the Second Congress was due to end on February 18, 1866. However, due to the defeat and dissolution of the Confederacy prior to that time, the Congress did not function after the end of its second and final session.
- 1st Session – May 2, 1864 to June 14, 1864
- 2nd Session – November 7, 1864 to March 18, 1865
Senate
X: served in the Senate of the First Congress (i.e. reelected or continued in office for this Second Congress).
- 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 begin new six-year terms with each Congress after the first.
- Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their terms. Senators of Class 1 were intended to serve a six-year term, starting with this Congress and expiring in 1870. Class 2 senators served what was intended to be a four-year term, due to end on the expiry of this Congress in 1866. Class 3 senators were meant to serve a six-year term, due to expire in 1868.[2]
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
- 2. Waldo Porter Johnson X
- 1. (vacant caused by the inability of the Missouri legislature to meet and elect a senator)
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
X: reelected
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
- In Confederate law, the people of Missouri were entitled to elect thirteen representatives. The state never implemented the reapportionment and continued to use its existing seven districts.[6]
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Accounts[9]
Claims
Commerce
Engrossment and Enrollment
Finance
Foreign Relations
Indian Affairs
Judiciary
Military Affairs
Naval Affairs
Patents
Post Offices and Post Roads
Printing
Public Buildings
Public Lands
Rules
Territories
Accounts[9]
Claims
- James Shelton Dickinson, 9th Alabama
- Warren Akin Sr., 10th Georgia
- George Washington Triplett, 2nd Kentucky
- Israel Victor Welch, 3rd Mississippi
- William N. H. Smith, 1st North Carolina
- James Farrow, 5th South Carolina
- Joseph Brown Heiskell, 1st Tennessee
- Frederick William Mackey Holliday, 10th Virginia
- George Washington Ewing, 4th Kentucky — session 2
- Nimrod Lindsay Norton, 2nd Missouri — session 2
- Caleb Claiborne Herbert, 2nd Texas — session 2
Commerce
- James Shelton Dickinson, 9th Alabama
- Julian Hartridge, 1st Georgia
- Theodore Legrand Burnett, 6th Kentucky
- John Perkins Jr., 6th Louisiana
- John Tillman Lamkin, 7th Mississippi
- Thomas Charles Fuller, 4th North Carolina
- James Farrow, 5th South Carolina
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, 9th Tennessee
- John Goode Jr., 6th Virginia
- Lewis Malone Ayer Jr., 3rd South Carolina — session 2
- David Williamson Carroll, 3rd Arkansas — session 2
- Caleb Claiborne Herbert, 2nd Texas — session 2
Elections
- Robert Benjamin Hilton, 2nd Florida
- Hiram Parks Bell, 9th Georgia
- James Chrisman, 5th Kentucky
- William Dunbar Holder, 2nd Mississippi
- John Adams Gilmer, 6th North Carolina
- William Dunlap Simpson, 4th South Carolina
- Joseph Brown Heiskell, 1st Tennessee
- Anthony Martin Branch, 3rd Texas
- Samuel Augustine Miller, 14th Virginia
- John Bullock Clark Sr., 3rd Missouri — session 2
Enrolled Bills
Flag and Seal
Foreign Affairs
- Henry Stuart Foote, 5th Tennessee, Chairman (fled to Canada before completing term)
- William Russell Smith, 2nd Alabama
- Horatio Washington Bruce, 7th Kentucky
- John Perkins Jr., 6th Louisiana
- Jehu Amaziah Orr, 1st Mississippi
- Josiah Turner, 5th North Carolina
- James Hervey Witherspoon Jr., 1st South Carolina
- Daniel Coleman DeJarnette Sr., 8th Virginia
- William Cabell Rives, 7th Virginia (resigned March 7, 1865)
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, 9th Tennessee — session 2
- Thomas Lowndes Snead, 1st Missouri — session 2
Indian Affairs
- Otho Robards Singleton, 5th Mississippi, Chairman — session 1
- Thomas Jefferson Foster, 1st Alabama
- Thomas Burton Hanly, 4th Arkansas
- Samuel St. George Rogers, 1st Florida
- Joseph Hubbard Echols, 6th Georgia
- James Chrisman, 5th Kentucky
- Josiah Turner, 5th North Carolina
- John Porry Murray, 4th Tennessee
- Samuel Augustine Miller, 14th Virginia
- Elias Cornelius Boudinot, Cherokee Nation
- John Robert Baylor, 5th Texas — session 2
- Peter Singleton Wilkes, 6th Missouri — session 2
- John Milton Elliott, 12th Kentucky — session 2
Judiciary
- William Parish Chilton Sr., 6th Alabama
- Mark Harden Blandford, 3rd Georgia
- James William Moore, 10th Kentucky
- Lucius Jacques Dupré, 4th Louisiana
- Burgess Sidney Gaither, 9th North Carolina
- Edwin Augustus Keebel, 6th Tennessee
- Thomas Saunders Gholson, 4th Virginia
- Charles Wells Russell, 16th Virginia
- Augustus Hill Garland, 3rd Arkansas (resigned to become CS senator November 8, 1864) — session 1
- Simpson Harris Morgan, 6th Texas (died December 15, 1864) — session 2
- Felix Ives Batson, 1st Arkansas — session 2
- Henry Gray, 5th Louisiana — session 2
- George Graham Vest, 5th Missouri — session 2
Medical Department
Military Affairs
- William Porcher Miles, 2nd South Carolina, Chairman
- James Lawrence Pugh, 8th Alabama
- Thomas Burton Hanly, 4th Arkansas
- Robert Benjamin Hilton, 2nd Florida
- James Milton Smith, 7th Georgia
- Humphrey Marshall, 8th Kentucky
- Charles Jacques Villeré, 1st Louisiana
- Henry Cousins Chambers, 4th Mississippi
- Robert Rufus Bridgers, 2nd North Carolina
- William Graham Swan, 2nd Tennessee
- Anthony Martin Branch, 3rd Texas
- Waller Redd Staples, 12th Virginia
- John Bullock Clark Sr., 3rd Missouri — session 2
- Williams Carter Wickham, 3rd Virginia — session 2
Naval Affairs
- David Clopton, 7th Alabama, Chairman
- Samuel St. George Rogers, 1st Florida
- John Troup Shewmake, 5th Georgia
- William Dunbar Holder, 2nd Mississippi
- James Graham Ramsay, 8th North Carolina
- William Waters Boyce, 6th South Carolina
- John Vines Wright, 10th Tennessee
- David Funsten, 9th Virginia
- Robert Henry Whitfield, 2nd Virginia (resigned March 2, 1865)
- Michael Walsh Cluskey, 11th Tennessee — session 2
- Stephen Heard Darden, 1st Texas — session 2
Ordnance and Ordnance Stores
- Marcus Henderson Cruikshank, 4th Alabama
- William Ephraim Smith, 2nd Georgia
- Benjamin Franklin Bradley, 11th Kentucky
- Ethelbert Barksdale, 6th Mississippi
- George Washington Logan, 10th North Carolina
- James Hervey Witherspoon Jr., 1st South Carolina
- John Porry Murray, 4th Tennessee
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, 9th Tennessee
- Robert Latané Montague, 1st Virginia
- Robert Anthony Hatcher, 7th Missouri — session 2
- Lewis Malone Ayer Jr., 3rd South Carolina — session 2
Patents
- William Parish Chilton Sr., 6th Alabama, Chairman
- Hiram Parks Bell, 9th Georgia
- Horatio Washington Bruce, 7th Kentucky
- John Tillman Lamkin, 7th Mississippi
- Thomas Charles Fuller, 4th North Carolina
- Joseph Brown Heiskell, 1st Tennessee
- Robert Henry Whitfield, 2nd Virginia (resigned March 2, 1865)
- John Robert Baylor, 5th Texas — session 2
Pay and Mileage
Post Offices and Post Roads
- Thomas Jefferson Foster, 1st Alabama
- Hiram Parks Bell, 9th Georgia
- Benjamin Franklin Bradley, 11th Kentucky
- John Tillman Lamkin, 7th Mississippi
- James Thomas Leach, 3rd North Carolina
- James Hervey Witherspoon Jr., 1st South Carolina
- James McCallum, 7th Tennessee
- Franklin Barlow Sexton, 4th Texas
- LaFayette McMullen, 13th Virginia
- John Milton Elliott, 12th Kentucky — session 2
- Peter Singleton Wilkes, 6th Missouri — session 2
Printing
Public Buildings
Quartermaster's and Commissary Departments and Military Transportation
- George Nelson Lester, 8th Georgia
- Willis Benson Machen, 1st Kentucky
- Henry English Read, 3rd Kentucky
- Jehu Amaziah Orr, 1st Mississippi
- James Madison Leach, 7th North Carolina (elected April 21, 1864)
- William Dunlap Simpson, 4th South Carolina
- Henry Stuart Foote, 5th Tennessee (fled to Canada before completing term)
- Frederick William Mackey Holliday, 10th Virginia
- Robert Johnston, 15th Virginia
- Aaron H. Conrow, 4th Missouri — session 2
Rules and Officers of the House
Territories and Public Lands
- Thomas Jefferson Foster, 1st Alabama
- Robert Benjamin Hilton, 2nd Florida
- William Ephraim Smith, 2nd Georgia
- James Chrisman, 5th Kentucky
- James Thomas Leach, 3rd North Carolina
- Thomas Menees, 8th Tennessee
- Anthony Martin Branch, 3rd Texas
- LaFayette McMullen, 13th Virginia
- Augustus Hill Garland, 3rd Arkansas (resigned to become CS senator November 8, 1864) — session 1
- George Washington Ewing, 4th Kentucky — session 2
- Nimrod Lindsay Norton, 2nd Missouri — session 2
Ways and Means
- Francis Strother Lyon, 5th Alabama, Chairman
- Clifford Anderson, 4th Georgia
- Eli Metcalfe Bruce, 9th Kentucky
- Charles Magill Conrad, 2nd Louisiana
- Ethelbert Barksdale, 6th Mississippi
- John Adams Gilmer, 6th North Carolina
- Arthur St. Clair Colyar, 3rd Tennessee
- Franklin Barlow Sexton, 4th Texas
- John Brown Baldwin, 11th Virginia
- Duncan Farrar Kenner, 3rd Louisiana — session 2
- Rufus King Garland Jr., 2nd Arkansas — session 2
Impressments (Session 1)[9]
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Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States and Confederate Senate Journal
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Historical Atlas ... p. 137 and notes p. 140
- The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America: 1861–1865, by Kenneth C. Martis (Simon and Schuster 1994)