Second National Flag Of The Confederacy

Commonly Known As The "Stainless Banner," The Second National Flag Was Created By An Act Of The First Confederate Congress And Approved By The President On 01 May 1863. One Of The First Issues Of This Flag Covered The Casket Of Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (21 January 1824-10 May 1863) As The Nation Mourned His Loss In Richmond, 12 May 1863.

First Confederate Congress (18 February 1862-17 February 1864)

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Sessions Of Congress-Session Number, Location, Dates Of Assembly And Adjournment.

Confederate States Senate

	Officers Of The Senate
	State Senators

Confederate States House Of Representatives

	Officers Of The House
	State Representatives

Territorial Delegates

Congressional Committees-A Listing, By Committee Name, Of The Members Who Comprised The Following Specific Purpose Groups:

Senate Committees

	Accounts (Sessions I-IV)
	Claims (Sessions I-IV)
	Commerce (Sessions I-IV)
	Engrossment And Enrollment (Sessions I-IV)
	Finance (Sessions I-IV)
	Foreign Affairs (Sessions I-IV)
	Indian Affairs (Sessions I-IV)
	Judiciary (Sessions I-IV)
	Military Affairs (Sessions I-IV)
	Naval Affairs (Sessions I-IV)
	Patents (Sessions I-IV)
	Pay And Mileage (Session I)
	Post Offices And Post Roads (Sessions I-IV)
	Printing (Sessions I-IV)
	Public Lands (Sessions I-IV)
	Rules (Session I)
	Territories (Sessions I-IV)

House Committees

	Accounts (Sessions I-IV)
	Claims (Sessions I-IV)
	Commerce (Sessions I-IV)
	Currency (Session IV)
	Elections (Sessions I-IV)
	Enrolled Bills (Sessions I-IV)
	Foreign Affairs (Sessions I-IV)
	Indian Affairs (Sessions I-IV)
	Judiciary (Sessions I-IV)
	Medical Department (Sessions II-IV)
	Military Affairs (Sessions I-IV)
	Naval Affairs (Sessions I-IV)
	Ordnance And Ordnance Stores (Sessions II-IV)
	Patents (Sessions I-IV)
	Pay And Mileage (Sessions I-II)
	Post Offices And Post Roads (Sessions I-IV)
	Printing (Sessions I-IV)
	Public Buildings (Sessions I-IV)
	Quartermaster's And Commissary Departments And Military Transportation (Sessions II-IV)
	Rules And Officers Of The House (Sessions I-III)
	Territories And Public Lands (Sessions I-IV)
	War Tax (Session II)
	Ways And Means (Sessions I-IV)

Joint Committees

	Buildings (Session I)
	Engrossment And Enrollment (Session I)
	Flag And Seal (Sessions I-III)
	Inauguration (Session I)
	Printing (Sessions I-IV)
	Rules (Session I)

Sessions Of Congress

SESSION NUMBER

LOCATION

DATE OF ASSEMBLY

DATE OF ADJOURNMENT

SESSION I

Richmond, Virginia

18 February 1862

21 April 1862

SESSION II

Richmond, Virginia

18 August 1862

13 October 1862

SESSION III

Richmond, Virginia

12 January 1863

01 May 1863

SESSION IV

Richmond, Virginia

07 December 1863

17 February 1864

Confederate States Senate

Officers Of The Senate

CODE KEY

OTHER CIVIL & MILITARY SERVICE

(C) Confederate Cabinet/Executive Branch
(S) Secession Convention
(P) Provisional Confederate Congress
(2^nd) 2^nd Confederate Congress

OFFICER

STATE OF
REPRESENTATION

SESSIONS
SERVED

PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE

Alexander Hamilton Stephens
(C, S, P & 2^nd)

GEORGIA

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
(C, P & 2^nd)

VIRGINIA

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

SECRETARY

James H. Nash
(2^nd)

SOUTH CAROLINA

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

ASSISTANT SECRETARY

Edward H. Stephens

VIRGINIA

I-IV
(25 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

JOURNAL CLERK

C.T. Bruen

VIRGINIA

I-IV
(25 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

RECORDING CLERK

H.H. Hubbard

VIRGINIA

I-IV
(25 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS

Lafayette H. Fitzhugh
(2^nd)

KENTUCKY

I-IV
(19 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

DOORKEEPER

James Page
(2^nd)

NORTH CAROLINA

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

ASSISTANT DOORKEEPER

John Wadsworth
(P & 2^nd)

GEORGIA

I-IV
(26 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

State Senators

CODE KEY

A ± Denotes A Senator Who Died While In Office.

OTHER CIVIL & MILITARY SERVICE

(C) Confederate Cabinet/Executive Branch
(S) Secession Convention
(P) Provisional Confederate Congress
(2^nd) 2^nd Confederate Congress

SENATOR

SESSIONS
SERVED

SENATOR

SESSIONS
SERVED

ALABAMA

MISSISSIPPI

Clement Claiborne Clay

I-IV
(19 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Albert Gallatin Brown
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Robert Jemison, Jr.
(S & 2^nd)

IV
(28 December 1863-
16 February 1864)

William Lowndes Yancey±*
(S)
*(Died: Montgomery County, Alabama,
26 July 1863.)

I-III
(27 March 1862-
18 April 1863)

James Phelan

I-IV
(19 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

ARKANSAS

MISSOURI

Robert Ward Johnson
(P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

John Bullock Clark, Sr.
(P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Waldo Porter Johnson
(2^nd)

IV
(24 December 1863-
17 February 1864)

Charles Burton Mitchel
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton±*
(P)
*(Died: Choctaw County, Alabama,
03 September 1863.)

I-III
(18 February 1862-
01 May 1863)

FLORIDA

NORTH CAROLINA

James McNair Baker
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

George Davis*
(C & P)
*(Resigned: 11 January 1864.)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
30 December 1863)

William Theophilus Dortch
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Augustus Emmet Maxwell
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Edwin Godwin Reade

IV
(22 January 1864-
17 February 1864)

GEORGIA

SOUTH CAROLINA

Benjamin Harvey Hill
(S, P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Robert Woodward Barnwell
(S, P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 December 1863)

Herschel Vespasian Johnson
(S & 2^nd)

III-IV
(19 January 1863-
17 February 1864)

John Wood Lewis, Sr.

I-II
(07 April 1862-
13 October 1862)

James Lawrence Orr
(S, P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Robert Augustus Toombs*
(C, S & P)
*(Elected, But Refused To Serve.)

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KENTUCKY

TENNESSEE

Henry Cornelius Burnett
(S, P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(26 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Landon Carter Haynes, Sr.
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

William Emmett Simms
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr.
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

LOUISIANA

TEXAS

Thomas Jenkins Semmes
(S & 2^nd)

I-IV
(19 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Williamson Simpson Oldham, Sr.
(S, P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Edward Sparrow
(S, P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Louis Trezevant Wigfall
(P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

VIRGINIA

Allen Taylor Caperton
(S & 2^nd)

III-IV
(26 January 1863-
17 February 1864)

Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
(C, P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

William Ballard Preston±*
(S & P)
*(Died: Smithfield,
Montgomery County, Virginia,
16 November 1862.)

I-II
(18 February 1862-
13 October 1862)

Confederate States House Of Representatives

Officers Of The House

CODE KEY

A ± Denotes An Officer Who Died While In Office.

OTHER CIVIL & MILITARY SERVICE

(S) Secession Convention
(P) Provisional Confederate Congress
(2^nd) 2^nd Confederate Congress

OFFICER

STATE OF
REPRESENTATION

SESSIONS
SERVED

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

Thomas Stanhope Bocock
(P & 2^nd)

VIRGINIA

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE

Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
(P)

ALABAMA

III
(13 January 1863-
16 January 1863)

CLERK

Robert Emmett Dixon, Sr.±*
(P)
*(Died: Richmond, Virginia,
24 April 1863.)

GEORGIA

I-III
(18 February 1862-
23 April 1863)

Albert Reese Lamar
(S, P & 2^nd)

GEORGIA

III-IV
(25 April 1863-
17 February 1864)

ASSISTANT CLERK

David Louis Dalton
(2^nd)

ALABAMA

III-IV
(ca.
01 May 1863-
17 February 1864)

James McDonald

VIRGINIA

I-IV
(ca.
13 March 1862-
17 February 1864)

DOORKEEPER

Robert Harrison Wynne
(S, P & 2^nd)

ALABAMA

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

State Representatives

CODE KEY

A ± Denotes A Representative Who Died While In Office.

OTHER CIVIL & MILITARY SERVICE

(A) Confederate Army Command
(C) Confederate Cabinet/Executive Branch
(S) Secession Convention
(P) Provisional Confederate Congress
(2^nd) 2^nd Confederate Congress

REPRESENTATIVE

SESSIONS
SERVED

REPRESENTATIVE

SESSIONS
SERVED

ALABAMA

MISSISSIPPI

William Parish Chilton, Sr.
(P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Ethelbert Barksdale
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

David Clopton
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
(P)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Henry Cousins Chambers
(2^nd)

I-IV
(19 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Edmund Strother Dargan
(S)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Jeremiah Watkins Clapp
(S)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Thomas Jefferson Foster
(2^nd)

I-IV
(19 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Reuben Davis*
*(Resigned: 21 January 1864.)

I-III
(18 February 1862-
21 April 1863)

Francis Strother Lyon
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

William Dunbar Holder
(2^nd)

IV
(21 January 1864-
17 February 1864)

James Lawrence Pugh
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

John Jones McRae

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

John Perkins Ralls
(S)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Otho Robards Singleton
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

William Russell Smith
(S & 2^nd)

I-IV
(21 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Israel Victor Welch
(S & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

ARKANSAS

MISSOURI

Felix Ives Batson
(S & 2^nd)

I-III
(18 February 1862-
01 May 1863)

Caspar Wistar Bell
(P)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Aaron H. Conrow
(P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Augustus Hill Garland
(S, P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

William Mordecai Cooke, Sr.±*
(P)
*(Died: Petersburg, Virginia,
14 April 1863)

I-III
(18 February 1862-
23 January 1863)

Thomas W. Freeman
(P)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Thomas Burton Hanly
(S & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Thomas Alexander Harris
(P)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Grandison Delaney Royston

I-III
(18 February 1862-
28 April 1863)

George Graham Vest
(P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

FLORIDA

NORTH CAROLINA

James Baird Dawkins*
(S)
*(Resigned: 17 January 1863.)

I-II
(18 February 1862-
08 October 1862)

Archibald Hunter Arrington
(S)

I-IV
(20 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Thomas Samuel Ashe

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Robert Rufus Bridgers
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Allen Turner Davidson
(S & P)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Robert Benjamin Hilton
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Burgess Sidney Gaither
(2^nd)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

Owen Rand Kenan

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

William Lander
(S)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

John Marshall Martin

III-IV
(25 March 1863-
17 February 1864)

Thomas David Smith McDowell
(S & P)

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

James Robert McLean

I-IV
(18 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

William Nathan Harrell Smith
(P & 2^nd)

I-IV
(19 February 1862-
17 February 1864)

GEORGIA

SOUTH CAROLINA

William White Clark