A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act in relation to Substitutes in the Army. By Mr. Hilton, from Military Committee; Read first and second times, placed on the calendar and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 19...
A Bill: To distribute bounty, granted as a reward to the officers and men serving on board of the Virginia, Patrick Henry, Jamestown, Raleigh, Beaufort and Teazer, for their gallantry and courage in the naval engagement with the enemy's vessels in...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to suppress abuses in the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments of the army." By Mr. Garland; Read first and second times and referred tot the Committee on the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments on December...
A Bill: To provide for the reduction of the currency. By Mr. Wm. D. Simpson, South Carolina; Read first and second times, refereed to the Special Committee on Currency, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America...
A Bill: Continuing in pay all discharged soldiers by reason of wounds and injuries received in the service. By Mr. Read, in the nature of a substitute for the bill to "provide for disabled officers and soldiers"; Postponed and ordered to be printed...
From the Lewis (Levi) Letters; Levi Lewis, born October 16, 1841, was reared on the family farm in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The oldest son of Robert S. and Mary Lewis, he had an older sister, Lydia Rugar, and two younger brothers, Robert T....
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Pamphlet, "The Lawrence Massacre By a Band of Border Ruffians Under Quantrill, 18 August 1863."
A letter, dated 20 January 1883, from Ralph North in Natchez, Mississippi, to Sergent Prentiss Nutt concerning information on a Federal seizure of coal boats belonging to the Nutts in 1863. Information about the incident was sought for use in the...
From the United States. Army. Provost-Marshal's Office (4th District, Richmond, VA.) Documents. Partially completed form from April 1865, used to certify that a prisoner of war had taken the oath prescribed by Abraham Lincoln on 8 December 1863.
From the United States. Army. Provost-Marshal's Office (4th District, Richmond, VA.) Documents. Partially completed form from April 1865, used to certify that deserters from the Confederate forces had taken the Amnesty Oath issued under the...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act making appropriations for the postal service of the Confederate States, for the year 1862 and 1863." By Mr. Lyon, from the Committee of Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made special order after...
Joint Resolutions: Requiring the settlement of the accounts of the Post-Office Department prior to the first day of July 1863. By Mr. Baldwin, moved as substitute for bill reported by Committee of Ways and Means; Ordered to be printed by the...
