The message was read.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Richmond, May 28, 1864.

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 be assistant quartermasters, with the rank of captain in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT,
Richmond, May 26, 1864.

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

Assistant quartermasters-captains.

Isaac A. Clarke, of Arkansas, for duty with Second Creek Regiment, Trans-Mississippi Department, vice Capt. John Barnwell, resigned, to date from September 1, 1863. L. C. Fisher, of Texas, for duty with Seventh Texas Cavalry Regiment, TransMississippi Department (an original vacancy), to date from September 1, 1863. I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

CONFEI ERATE STATES OF AMERICA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Richmond, May 28, 1864.

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 be artillery officers, under act approved January 22, 1862, with the rank of major in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT,
Richmond, May 26, 1864.

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

ARTILLERY OFFICERS, UNDER ACT APPROVED JANUARY 22, 1862.

Majors.

Sidney T. Fontaine, of Texas, to take rank from September 1, 1863.
George R. Wilson, of Texas, to take rank from September 1, 1863.
I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

To His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS,

The message was read.

President, etc.

JAMES A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Richmond, May 30, 1864.

To the Senate of the Confederate States:

Agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, I nominate the officers on the accompanying list for promotion in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT,
Richmond, May 28, 1864.

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

Colonels.

Lieut. Col. W. D. Mitchell, of Georgia, to be colonel Twenty-ninth Georgia Regiment, vice Colonel Young, resigned, to rank from January 19, 1864.

Lieut. Col. T. P. Shaw, of South Carolina, to be colonel Nineteenth South Carolina Regiment, vice Colonel Lythgoe, killed, to rank from December 31, 1862.

Lieutenant-colonels.

Maj. W. W. Billopp, of Georgia, to be lieutenant-colonel Twenty-ninth Georgia Regiment, vice Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell, promoted, to rank from January 19, 1864.

Maj. E. G. Brasher, of Arkansas, to be lieutenant-colonel Second Arkansas Regiment, vice Lieutenant-Colonel Warfield, promoted, to rank from April 26, 1864.

Majors.

Capt. J. J. Owen, of Georgia, to be major Twenty-ninth Georgia Regiment, vice Major Billopp, promoted, to rank from January 19, 1864.

Capt. James W. Banning, of Georgia, to be major Twenty-eighth Georgia Regiment, vice Major Crawford, promoted, to rank from January 20, 1864.

Capt. George W. Reynolds, of Mississippi, to be major Twenty-ninth Mississippi Regiment, vice Major Isom, resigned, to rank from February 15, 1864.

Capt. J. W. Carter, of

to be major Second Virginia Battalion, Local Defense, vice Major Scruggs, promoted, to rank from May 5, 1864. I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Richmond, May 30, 1864.

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.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, May 26, 1864. SIR: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America:

Surgeons.

R. A. Watkins, of Missouri, to take rank from August 21, 1863.
Duff Child, of Alabama, to take rank from December 1, 1863.
John T. McFarland, of Georgia, to take rank from January 20, 1863.
William Hoskins, of Virginia, to take rank from December 21, 1863.
Henry V. Gray, of Virginia, to take rank from January 14, 1864.
John C. Mobley, of South Carolina, to take rank from January 4, 1864.
Edward B. Perrin, of Alabama, to take rank from February 27, 1864.
Henry Clay Ghent, of Alabama, to take rank from February 16, 1864.

Alexander Rives, of Virginia, to take rank from February 17, 1864.
Charles H. Todd, of Louisiana, to take rank from February 27, 1864.
Robert Donnell Gwin, of Tennessee, to take rank from February 23, 1864.
Samuel V. D. Hill, of Mississippi, to take rank from February 24, 1864.
Benjamin F. Duvall, of Kentucky, to take rank from March 7, 1864.
James B. Luckie, of Alabama, to take rank from October 9, 1863.
Patrick H. Griffin, of Mississippi, to take rank from May 24, 1862.
Joseph J. Holt, of Mississippi, to take rank from November 1, 1863.
Junius Roane, of Virginia, to take rank from March 24, 1864.
William W. Keith, of South Carolina, to take rank from March 29, 1864.
G. A. D. Galt, of Virginia, to take rank from March 31, 1864.
William G. Carter, of Virginia, to take rank from March 7, 1864.
John William Lawson, of Virginia, to take rank from March 17, 1864.
William W. Douglas, of Virginia, to take rank from March 23, 1864.
William E. Kemble, of Virginia, to take rank from January 18, 1863.
Alfred R. Garnier, of Louisiana, to take rank from March 19, 1864.
Joseph H. Mittall, of Tennessee, to take rank from March 19, 1864.
Thoinas R. Cosby, of Virginia, to take rank from March 30, 1864.
Alfred Smith, of Kentucky, to take rank from March 21, 1864.
S. A. Holt, of Alabama, to take rank from June 4, 1862.
Henry Plummer, of Kentucky, to take rank from October 2, 1862.
William E. Saunders, of Texas, to take rank from November 18, 1862.

Matthew Deavenport, of Mississippi, to take rank from February 17, 1863.

John William Crowders, of Missouri, to take rank from July 28, 1863.

George Washington Henderson, of Mississippi, to take rank from October 16, 1863. Joseph Bensadon, of Louisiana, to take rank from February 25, 1862.

John Gratton Cabell, of Virginia, to take rank from September 29, 1863.

John Dickson Bruns, of South Carolina, to take rank from December 14, 1863.

Eben Hillyer, of Georgia, to take rank from January 7, 1864.

Alfred Raoul, of South Carolina, to take rank from February 24, 1864.
Bolling A. Pope, of Georgia, to take rank from March 17, 1864.

William A. Cochran, of Alabama, to take rank from November 25, 1862.
John M. Henson, of Tennessee, to take rank from July 12, 1862.
John W. King, of Tennessee, to take rank from December 22, 1861.
B. T. Marshall, of Kentucky, to take rank from May 2, 1864.

Assistant surgeons.

W. R. Jones, of Arkansas, to take effect August 15, 1863.
A. T. Robertson, of Arkansas, to take effect June 20, 1863.
L. W. Harris, of Alabama, to take effect December 1, 1863.
L. T. Richardson, of Texas, to take effect March 4, 1863.
W. H. Brame, of Mississippi, to take effect December 4, 1863.
T. J. Black, of Mississippi, to take effect November 17, 1862.
R. H. Lee, of Alabama, to take effect December 23, 1863.
A. F. Wills, of Virginia, to take effect February 18, 1863.
J. F. Hughes, of Virginia, to take effect December 2, 1863.

R. U. Burges, of Virginia, to take effect December 3, 1863.

D. Williams, of North Carolina, to take effect December 11, 1863.

W. R. Hughes, of North Carolina, to take effect December 12, 1863.

J. F. I. McClery, of District of Columbia, to take effect December 21, 1863.
W. P. Thurman, of Virginia, to take effect December 28, 1863.

E. A. Leggett, of Georgia, to take effect December 29, 1863.

J. R. Jones, of Virginia, to take effect December 29, 1863.

T. S. Fox, of South Carolina, to take effect December 3, 1863.

H. W. De Saussure, of South Carolina, to take effect December 4, 1865
B. B. Poellnitz, of Alabama, to take effect December 4, 1863.
H. S. Beatty, of South Carolina, to take effect December 9, 1863.
J. D. Neill, of South Carolina, to take effect December 9, 1863.
J. R. McKenzie, of Tennessee, to take effect September 13, 1862.
T. E. Nott, of South Carolina, to take effect December 11, 1863.
H. D. Green, of South Carolina, to take effect December 12, 1863.
J. C. Arant, of South Carolina, to take effect December 15, 1863.
D. C. Millen, of Texas, to take effect December 17, 1863.
H. J. Smith, of Georgia, to take effect December 22, 1863.
T. W. Brian, of Georgia, to take effect December 22, 1863.
J. W. Suggs, of Georgia, to take effect December 22, 1863.

P. H. Adams, of South Carolina, to take effect December 23, 1863.
J. B. Simpson, of South Carolina, to take effect December 21, 1863.
J. T. Harden, of Georgia, to take effect December 29, 1863.
T. F. Dunn, of Mississippi, to take effect December 29, 1863.
E. Ravenel, jr., of South Carolina, to take effect December 30, 1863.
P. J. Maxwell, of South Carolina, to take effect December 30, 1863.
H. J. Nott, of South Carolina, to take effect January 12, 1864.
W. J. Upshaw, of Virginia, to take effect January 12, 186'.
J. V. Brookes, of Virginia, to take effect January 28, 1864.

L. W. Dick, of South Carolina, to take effect January 7, 1864.

L. F. Dozier, of Georgia, to take effect January 7, 1864.

T. A. Southerland, of South Carolina, to take effect January 8, 1864.
J. J. W. Glenn, of Georgia, to take effect January 8, 1864.

J. R. Gildersleeve, of Virginia, to take effect January 15, 1864.
S. R. Deakins, of Georgia, to take effect January 20, 1864.
M. M. Pitts, of South Carolina, to take effect January 20, 1864.
R. E. Shelton, of Tennessee, to take effect January 23, 1864.
M. W. McCaine, of South Carolina, to take effect January 25, 1864.
T. C. Brown, of South Carolina, to take effect January 27, 1864.
S. M. Lewis, of Kentucky, to take effect January 29, 1864.
S. C. Martin, of Mississippi, to take effect January 2, 1864.
W. R. Minniece, of Mississippi, to take effect January 12, 1864.
W. Magruder, of Mississippi, to take effect January 14, 1864.
W. T. Parker, of Mississippi, to take effect January 14, 1864.
W. Henderson, of England, to take effect February 5, 1864.
J. F. Zacharias, of Maryland, to take effect February 8, 1864.
E. W. Latimer, of Virginia, to take effect February 8, 1864.
W. J. Williams, of Virginia, to take effect February 12, 1864.
W. H. Dulaney, of Virginia, to take effect February 13, 1864.
G. S. Field, of Virginia, to take effect February 19, 1864.
J. R. Wood, of Virginia, to take effect February 2, 1864.
W. L. Lundy, of Mississippi, to take effect February 4, 1864.
W. J. Pierce, of Alabama, to take effect February 5, 1864.
J. W. Banks, of Tennessee, to take effect February 8, 1864.
J. C. Blakeney, of South Carolina, to take effect February 9, 1864.
G. McD. Brumby, of Louisiana, to take effect February 19, 1864.
J. L. Speake, of South Carolina, to take effect February 20, 1864.
W. S. Pierson, of South Carolina, to take effect February 20, 1864.
W. H. Pue, of Missouri, to take effect February 27, 1864.
S. S. Carter, of Mississippi, to take effect February 27, 1864.
H. A. Coleman, of South Carolina, to take effect March 15, 1864.
A. J. Wolfe, of South Carolina, to take effect March 16, 1864.
D. P. Holloway, of South Carolina, to take effect March 16, 1864.
R. B. Harris, of Georgia, to take effect March 17, 1864.
G. B. Williams, of Georgia, to take effect March 18, 1864.
C. G. Stephens, of South Carolina, to take effect March 21, 1864.
L. D. McReynolds, of Alabama, to take effect March 21, 1864.
J. W. Caldwell, of South Carolina, to take effect March 22, 1864.
G. B. Lester, of Tennessee, to take effect May 21, 1862.

T. J. Goodwyn, of South Carolina, to take effect March 28, 1864.
A. McD. Moore, of Georgia, to take effect March 29, 1864.

B. A. Bobo, of Florida, to take effect March 30, 1864.

W. A. Strother, of South Carolina, to take effect March 31, 1864.

T. J. Taylor, of Virginia, to take effect March 5, 1864.

B. Williams, of District of Columbia, to take effect March 8, 1864.

T. I. Webb, of Tennessee, to take effect March 10, 1864.

A. S. Epes, of Virginia, to take effect March 10, 1864.

J. C. Goodman, of North Carolina, to take effect March 14, 1864.

F. S. Hall, of Virginia, to take effect March 15, 1864.

H. W. Dorsey, of Maryland, to take effect March 18, 1864.
T. E. Moorman, of Virginia, to take effect March 19, 1864.
M. W. Stanford, of Tennessee, to take effect March 21, 1864.
A. M. Robertson, of Virginia, to take effect March 22, 1864.
W. D. Witherspoon, of Alabama, to take effect March 24, 1864.
H. M. Heath, of Virginia, to take effect March 25, 1864.
J. S. Deyerle, of Virginia, to take effect March 26, 1864.
P. Roan, of Virginia, to take effect March 29, 1864.

H. J. McLaurin, of South Carolina, to take effect March 7, 1864.

H. D. Shell, of South Carolina, to take effect March 8, 1864.
E. T. Adams, of Virginia, to take effect March 12, 1864.
G. A. Merritt, of South Carolina, to take effect March 22, 1864.
G. W. Jordan, of South Carolina, to take effect March 21, 1864.
W. M. Baird, of Kentucky, to take effect April 20, 1862.
B. M. Alford, of Texas, to take effect October 12, 1863.
L. A. Woodson, of Virginia, to take effect February 8, 1864.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

To His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS,

The message was read.

President, etc.

JAMES A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Richmond, May 27, 1864.

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.

No. 12.]

JEFFERSON DAVIS. WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, May 8, 1864.

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

Surgeons.

R. T. Abernathy, of Alabama, to take rank from May 15, 1863.

R. J. Christie, of Missouri, to take rank from July 25, 1862.
I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. On motion by Mr. Orr,

The Senate resolved into open legislative session.

TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1864.

OPEN SESSION.

On motion by Mr. Caperton,

The Senate resolved into secret legislative session.

The doors having been opened,

On motion by Mr. Burnett,

Ordered, That the Committee on Military Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the bill (S. 47) to facilitate the settlement of the claims of deceased soldiers.

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Dalton:

Mr. President: The House of Representatives have passed the bill of the Senate (S. 22) to secure the prompt printing of the laws of the Confederate States, with amendments; in which they request the concurrence of the Senate.

And they have passed a joint resolution (H. R. 10) of thanks to the Ninth Regiment of Texas Infantry; in which they request the concurrence of the Senate.

On motion by Mr. Barnwell,

Ordered, That the Committee on Finance be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Margaret A. Rice and that it be referred to the Committee on Claims.