A comprehensive assembly of public reports documenting the
foundation of the Confederate government � In 1923, the
Southern Historical Society (SHS) published “Proceedings of the
Confederate Congress” in its journal, Southern Historical Society
Papers. It was the first of nine issues containing congressional
minutes from the public sessions of the Confederate Congress that
met in Richmond, Virginia, from February 1862 to March 1865. Unlike
the summary notations of the official Confederate congressional
journals, the “Proceedings” were drawn primarily from the
archives of two Richmond, Virginia, newspapers, the Examiner and
the Dispatch, which served the Confederacy’s capital city. These
journalists’ reports preserved nearly verbatim transcripts of
speeches, debates, and bills considered by the Confederate
legislature, including details seldom available from other sources,
and have proven to be invaluable sources for Confederate political
history. “Proceedings of the Confederate Congress” is not
without problems, however, chief among them its lack of
completeness. Due to lack of resources, SHS president Douglas
Southall Freeman was forced to focus exclusively on the sessions of
the Regular Confederate Congress beginning in 1862. None of the
proceedings of the Montgomery and Richmond Provisional Congresses
of 1861 and 1862 were included in the series. With Congress of
States, David Carlson fills this void by compiling and editing the
minutes of these early legislative sessions from daily press
reports published in newspapers in Richmond, Virginia; Montgomery,
Alabama; Charleston, South Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and
Savannah and Augusta, Georgia, in the process assembling a complete
set of transcriptions documenting the creation of the Confederate
government. Intended as a primary source and reference for
libraries, historians, and political scientists of the nineteenth
century, Congress of States provides an introduction explaining the
Provisional Confederate Congress and the background and purpose of
the book relative to the SHS and its “Proceedings of the
Confederate Congress,” a chronology outlining the major events
surrounding the secession crisis that informed and influenced the
Provisional Congress, annotated minutes for each of Provisional
Confederate Congress’s five sessions, and appendices featuring
the leadership and committees of the Provisional Congress. Primary
source documents are referenced but not included in the
proceedings, and examples of the proposed emblem and flags debated
as symbols of the Confederacy are also included.
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