2nd Confederate States Congress
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. Its members were elected in the 1863 congressional elections.
Sessions
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
Leadership
Senate
- President: Alexander H. Stephens
- President pro tempore: R. M. T. Hunter
House
- Speaker: Thomas S. Bocock
Officers
Senate
- Secretary: James H. Nash, South Carolina
- Recording Clerk: John W. Anderson, Alabama
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Lafayette H. Fitzhugh, Kentucky
- Doorkeeper: James Page, North Carolina
- Assistant Doorkeeper: John Wadsworth, Georgia
House
- Clerk: Albert Reese Lamar, Georgia
- Assistant Clerk: David Louis Dalton, Alabama — sessions 3 and 4
- Doorkeeper: Robert Harrison Wynne, Alabama
Members
Senate
X: served in the Senate of the First Congress.Alabama
- 3. Robert Jemison, Jr. X
- 1. Richard Wilde Walker
- 1. Robert Ward Johnson X
- 3. Charles Burton Mitchel X
- *Augustus Hill Garland
- 1. James McNair Baker X
- 2. Augustus Emmet Maxwell X
Kentucky
- 3. Henry Cornelius Burnett X
- 1. William Emmet Simms X
- 2. Thomas Jenkins Semmes X
- 3. Edward Sparrow X
Missouri
- 2. Waldo Porter Johnson X
- 1.
- *George Graham Vest
South Carolina
- 2. Robert Woodward Barnwell X
- 3. James Lawrence Orr X
- 3. Landon Carter Haynes X
- 2. Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr. X
- 3. William Simpson Oldham, Sr. X
- 2. Louis Trezevant Wigfall X
- 3. R. M. T. Hunter X
- 2. Allen Taylor Caperton X
House of Representatives
X: reelected
Alabama
- 1. Thomas Jefferson Foster X
- 2. William Russell Smith X
- 3. Congress refused to seat Representative-elect W. R. W. Cobb, an avowed Unionist; the district was not represented;
- 4. Marcus Henderson Cruikshank
- 5. Francis Strother Lyon X
- 6. William Parish Chilton, Sr. X
- 7. David Clopton X
- 8. James L. Pugh X
- 9. James Shelton Dickinson
- 1. Felix Ives Batson X
- 2. Rufus King Garland, Jr.
- 3. Augustus Hill Garland X
- *David Williamson Carroll
- 4. Thomas Burton Hanly X
- 1. Samuel St. George Rogers
- 2. Robert Benjamin Hilton X
- 1. Julian Hartridge X
- 2. William Ephraim Smith
- 3. Mark Harden Blandford
- 4. Clifford Anderson
- 5. John Troup Shewmake
- 6. Joseph Hubbard Echols
- 7. James Milton Smith
- 8. George Nelson Lester
- 9. Hiram Parks Bell
- 10. Warren Akin, Sr.
- 1. Willis Benson Machen X
- 2. George Washington Triplett
- 3. Henry English Read X
- 4. George Washington Ewing X
- 5. James Chrisman X
- 6. Theodore Legrand Burnett X
- 7. Horatio Washington Bruce X
- 8. Humphrey Marshall
- 9. Eli Metcalfe Bruce X
- 10. James William Moore X
- 11. Benjamin Franklin Bradley
- 12. John Milton Elliott X
- 1. Charles Jacques Villeré X
- 2. Charles Magill Conrad X
- 3. Duncan Farrar Kenner X
- 4. Lucius Jacques Dupré X
- 5. Benjamin Lewis Hodge
- *Henry Gray
- 6. John Perkins, Jr. X
- 1. Jehu Amaziah Orr
- 2. William Dunbar Holder X
- 3. Israel Victor Welch X
- 4. Henry Cousins Chambers X
- 5. Otho Robards Singleton X
- 6. Ethelbert Barksdale X
- 7. John Tillman Lamkin
- 1. Thomas Lowndes Snead
- 2. Nimrod Lindsay Norton
- 3. John Bullock Clark, Sr.
- 4. Aaron H. Conrow X
- 5. George Graham Vest X
- 6. Peter Singleton Wilkes
- 7. Robert Anthony Hatcher
- 1. William Nathan Harrell Smith X
- 2. Robert Rufus Bridgers X
- 3. James Thomas Leach
- 4. Thomas Charles Fuller
- 5. Josiah Turner
- 6. John Adams Gilmer
- 7. James Madison Leach
- 8. James Graham Ramsay
- 9. Burgess Sidney Gaither
- 10. George Washington Logan
- 1. James Hervey Witherspoon, Jr.
- 2. William Porcher Miles X
- 3. Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr. X
- 4. William Dunlap Simpson X
- 5. James Farrow X
- 6. William Waters Boyce X
- 1. Joseph Brown Heiskell X
- 2. William Graham Swan X
- 3. Arthur St. Clair Colyar
- 4. John Porry Murray
- 5. Henry Stuart Foote X
- 6. Edwin Augustus Keebel
- 7. James McCallum
- 8. Thomas Menees X
- 9. John DeWitt Clinton Atkins X
- 10. John Vines Wright X
- 11. Michael Walsh Cluskey
- 1. Stephen Heard Darden
- 2. Caleb Claiborne Herbert X
- 3. Anthony Martin Branch
- 4. Franklin Barlow Sexton X
- 5. John Robert Baylor
- 6. Simpson Harris Morgan
- 1. Robert Latane Montague
- 2. Robert Henry Whitfield
- 3. Williams Carter Wickham
- 4. Thomas Saunders Gholson
- 5. Thomas Stanley Bocock X
- 6. John Goode, Jr. X
- 7. William Cabell Rives
- 8. Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, Sr. X
- 9. David Funsten X
- 10. Frederick William Mackey Holliday
- 11. John Brown Baldwin X
- 12. Waller Redd Staples X
- 13. LaFayette McMullen
- 14. Samuel Augustine Miller X
- 15. Robert Johnston X
- 16. Charles Wells Russell X
Delegates
Arizona Territory
- Marcus H. MacWillie X
Creek and Seminole Nations
- Samuel Benton Callahan
Senate Committees
- Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia, Chairman
- William Emmett Simms, Kentucky
- William Theophilus Dortch, North Carolina
- Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky, Chairman
- James McNair Baker, Florida
- John William Clark Watson, Mississippi — session 2
- Waldo Porter Johnson, Missouri
- William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Texas — session 2
- William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Texas, Chairman
- Richard Wilde Walker, Alabama
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell, Florida
- William Theophilus Dortch, North Carolina
- Landon Carter Haynes, Sr., Tennessee
- William Theophilus Dortch, North Carolina, Chairman
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell, Florida
- Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia
- Richard Wilde Walker, Alabama — session 1
- John William Clark Watson, Mississippi — session 1
- * Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky — temporary, session 1
- * Waldo Porter Johnson, Missouri — temporary, sessions 1 and 2
- Robert Woodward Barnwell, South Carolina, Chairman
- Thomas Jenkins Semmes, Louisiana
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Virginia
- William Alexander Graham, North Carolina
- Robert Jemison, Jr., Alabama — session 1
- * James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina — temporary, session 2
- * William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Texas — temporary, session 2
- James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina, Chairman
- William Emmett Simms, Kentucky
- Waldo Porter Johnson, Missouri
- Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Texas
- Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia
- Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas, Chairman
- Augustus Emmet Maxwell, Florida
- Waldo Porter Johnson, Missouri
- William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Texas
- Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia
- Benjamin Harvey Hill, Georgia, Chairman
- Richard Wilde Walker, Alabama
- Thomas Jenkins Semmes, Louisiana
- John William Clark Watson, Mississippi
- Landon Carter Haynes, Sr., Tennessee
- * William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Texas — temporary, session 2
- Edward Sparrow, Louisiana, Chairman
- Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas
- Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky
- Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr., North Carolina
- Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Texas
- * Augustus Hill Garland, Arkansas — temporary, session 2
- Albert Gallatin Brown, Mississippi, Chairman
- James McNair Baker, Florida
- Herschel Vespasian Johnson, Georgia
- William Emmett Simms, Kentucky
- William Alexander Graham, North Carolina
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell, Florida, Chairman
- Benjamin Harvey Hill, Georgia
- Landon Carter Haynes, Sr., Tennessee
- Charles Burton Mitchel, Arkansas — session 1
- James McNair Baker, Florida
- Landon Carter Haynes, Sr., Tennessee
- William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Texas
- Robert Jemison, Jr., Alabama — session 1
- Augustus Hill Garland, Arkansas — session 2
- * Richard Wilde Walker, Alabama — temporary, session 2
- * Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia — temporary, session 2
- John William Clark Watson, Mississippi, Chairman
- James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina
- Landon Carter Haynes, Sr., Tennessee
- Richard Wilde Walker, Alabama
- James McNair Baker, Florida
- William Emmett Simms, Kentucky
- James McNair Baker, Florida, Chairman
- Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas
- Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr., North Carolina
- James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina, Chairman
- Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas
- Thomas Jenkins Semmes, Louisiana
- Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Texas, Chairman
- Charles Burton Mitchel, Arkansas — session 1
- Robert Woodward Barnwell, South Carolina
House Committees
- John Troup Shewmake, 5th Georgia
- Israel Victor Welch, 3rd Mississippi
- James Farrow, 5th South Carolina
- James McCallum, 7th Tennessee
- Robert Johnston, 15th Virginia
- James Shelton Dickinson, 9th Alabama
- Warren Akin, Sr., 10th Georgia
- George Washington Triplett, 2nd Kentucky
- Israel Victor Welch, 3rd Mississippi
- William Nathan Harrell 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
- 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
- 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
- Marcus Henderson Cruikshank, 4th Alabama
- Samuel St. George Rogers, 1st Florida
- Thomas Charles Fuller, 4th North Carolina
- Robert Anthony Hatcher, 7th Missouri — temporary, session 2
- William Parish Chilton, Sr., 6th Alabama
- Henry Cousins Chambers, 4th Mississippi
- William Cabell Rives, 7th Virginia
- David Funsten, 9th Virginia — temporary, session 2
- Henry Stuart Foote, 5th Tennessee, Chairman
- 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
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, 9th Tennessee — session 2
- Thomas Lowndes Snead, 1st Missouri — session 2
- 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
- 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 — session 1
- Simpson Harris Morgan, 6th Texas — session 2
- Felix Ives Batson, 1st Arkansas — session 2
- Henry Gray, 5th Louisiana — session 2
- George Graham Vest, 5th Missouri — session 2
- David Clopton, 7th Alabama
- Joseph Hubbard Echols, 6th Georgia
- Henry English Read, 3rd Kentucky
- William Dunbar Holder, 2nd Mississippi
- James Graham Ramsay, 8th North Carolina
- James Farrow, 5th South Carolina
- James McCallum, 7th Tennessee
- Thomas Menees, 8th Tennessee
- Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, Sr., 8th Virginia
- 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
- 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
- Michael Walsh Cluskey, 11th Tennessee — session 2
- Stephen Heard Darden, 1st Texas — session 2
- 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
- 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
- John Robert Baylor, 5th Texas — session 2
- Theodore Legrand Burnett, 6th Kentucky, Chairman
- Thomas Burton Hanly, 4th Arkansas
- Joseph Hubbard Echols, 6th Georgia
- * Mark Harden Blandford, 3rd Georgia — temporary, session 2
- 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
- Lucius Jacques Dupré, 4th Louisiana, Chairman
- Marcus Henderson Cruikshank, 4th Alabama
- George Washington Logan, 10th North Carolina
- William Graham Swan, 2nd Tennessee
- John Goode, Jr., 6th Virginia
- James Lawrence Pugh, 8th Alabama, Chairman
- Charles Magill Conrad, 2nd Louisiana
- LaFayette McMullen, 13th Virginia
- William Dunbar Holder, 2nd Mississippi — session 2
- Aaron H. Conrow, 4th Missouri — session 2
- 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
- William Dunlap Simpson, 4th South Carolina
- Henry Stuart Foote, 5th Tennessee
- Frederick William Mackey Holliday, 10th Virginia
- Robert Johnston, 15th Virginia
- Aaron H. Conrow, 4th Missouri — session 2
- William Parish Chilton, Sr., 6th Alabama
- George Nelson Lester, 8th Georgia
- John Perkins, Jr., 6th Louisiana
- William Nathan Harrell Smith, 1st North Carolina
- Robert Latané Montague, 1st Virginia
- 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 — session 1
- George Washington Ewing, 4th Kentucky — session 2
- Nimrod Lindsay Norton, 2nd Missouri — session 2
- 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
Joint Committees
- Senators
- *John William Clark Watson, Mississippi
- *William Alexander Graham, North Carolina
- *Robert Woodward Barnwell, South Carolina
- Representatives
- *William Parish Chilton, Sr., 6th Alabama
- *Thomas Burton Hanly, 4th Arkansas
- *Julian Hartridge, 1st Georgia
- *Henry Cousins Chambers, 4th Mississippi
- *John Brown Baldwin, 11th Virginia