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Journals of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865

THURSDAY, December 5, 1861.

Richmond, Va., December 5, 1861.

To the Congress of the Confederate States:

I nominate the officers on the accompanying list to the rank affixed to their names, respectively, agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT.

Captains.

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J. L. Pendleton, of Virginia

WEDNESDAY, March 26, 1862.

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EXECUTIVE SESSION.

Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred (on yesterday) the nominations of Dan Harvey Hill to be major-general; William N. Pendleton, to be brigadier-general of artillery, and J. B. Walton, to be colonel of artillery, reported, with the recommendation that all of said nominations be confirmed.

The Senate proceeded to the consideration of said report; and in concurrence therewith,

Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of Dan. Harvey Hill, William N. Pendleton, and J. B. Walton, agreeably to their respective nominations.

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Confederate States of America, War Department,

Richmond, March 22, 1862.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America:

FIRST REGIMENT LOUISIANA ARTILLERY, PROVISIONAL ARMY.

Brigade quartermasters, with the rank of major.

George W. Grice, Virginia; J. M. Thomson, Mississippi; Clement Young, --; Alexander W. Vick, Tennessee; G. V. Young, Tennessee; L. F. Johnston, Alabama; Joseph H. Pendleton, Virginia.

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Assistant adjutants-general, with the rank of captain.

William B. Pendleton, to take rank March 22, 1862, Virginia.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. P. BENJAMIN,

Acting 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.

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 1862.

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EXECUTIVE SESSION.

Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the nominations of van H. Manning, R. W. Jones, P. B. Starke, R. J. Morgan, Marcellus Douglass, E. A. O'Neal, and I. G. W. Steedman, to be colonels; William H. Tebbs, Z. York, S. W. Ferguson, John N. Dunn, William D. Chadick, James M. Smith, Henry Fitzhugh, and Samuel Ogden, to be lieutenant-colonels; John H. Baker, William Gipson, E. Warfield, Benjamin F. Bradley, J. H. Capers, David Zable, Edward P. Jones, W. A. Camp, R. C. Taylor, and R. L. Walker, to be majors; Thomas P. B. Ryan and Robert Bruce, to be second lieutenants; George W. Grice, J. M. Thomson, Clement Young, Alexander W. Vick, G. V. Young, L. F. Johnston, and Joseph H. Pendleton, to be brigade quartermasters, with the rank of major; J. G. Dent, L. S. McGwier, Robert H. Smith, Henry E. Cate, Belton Mickle, A. Smith Jordan, J. J. Waggoner, H. H. Epping, C. H. Williams, Horace L. Robards, Rufus P. McClain, M. H. Stephens, J. E. Roberts, D. H. Thomas, Henry H. McCune, Charles A. Watkins, Joshua Dear, and J. G. Michaeloffsky, to be assistant quartermasters, with the rank of captain; Clinton McClarty, Robert Tannahill, Ferdinand Molloy, M. M. Copeland William B.

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Stanard, W. W. Guy, and H. H. Chalmers, to be brigade commissaries, with the rank of major; J. D. Witherspoon, William H. Whitehead, R. A. Howard, Isaac N. Barnett, Simon Myers, Edward Miles, John P. Campbell, David Urquhart, T. W. Tansill, Samuel Donald, C. T. Patin, Thomas E. Gregg, F. O. H. White, V. H. Claiborne, William M. Priest, Lynch Turner, Andrew S. Justice, J. Henry Graybill, John W. Fraley, and Henry T. Hall, to be assistant commissaries, with the rank of captain; Archibald Gould, W. E. Cameron, Antoine de Chaignon, William M. Dodson, G. W. Rogers, Julius P. Faison, J. C. Brown, and W. C. Dunlap, to be chaplains; Elias E. Whitner, Thomas W. Cumming, D. C. A. Moses, E. P. Dandridge, John L. Hopkins, C. B. Porter, Grimke Rhett, J. P. Dillingham, John S. Mosby, David Lewis, Charles W. Pullins, John M. Poteat, Miles M. Cowles, John J. Fitzpatrick, and Joseph J. Guyton, to be adjutants, with the rank of first lieutenant; H. W. Walter, Charles E. Marshall, John M. Stansifer, W. H. Sellers, Charles Wood, E. E. Portlock, jr., and William B. Pendleton, to be assistant adjutants-general, with the rank of captain; A. Claxton Sorrel, J. I. Middleton, jr., Louis G. Young, John M. Smith, Charles Marshall, and J. Lyle Clarke, to be aids-de-camp, with the rank of first lieutenant; Walter G. Turpin, to be first lieutenant of engineers, reported, with the recommendation that all of said nominations be confirmed.

FRIDAY, March 6, 1863.

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 Office,

Richmond, March 5, 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, February 27, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for promotions in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America:

Colonels.

Lieut. Col. J. Q. A. Nadenbousch, of Virginia, to be colonel Second Virginia Regiment, vice Col. L. Botts, died of wounds September 16, 1862.

Lieut. Col. E. Pendleton, of Louisiana, to be colonel Fifteenth Louisiana Regiment, vice Colonel Nicholls, appointed brigadier-general October 14, 1862.

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