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unusual facts about Confederate Congress



A.Y.P. Garnett

He was the physician of General Robert E. Lee and family, as well as to the families of Generals Joe Johnston, Wade Hampton, William Preston, John C. Breckinridge, and of many members of the Confederate Cabinet and Congress.

CSS Teaser

She received the thanks of the Congress of the Confederate States for this action.

History of Tucson, Arizona

The proposal to organize the territory was passed by the Confederate Congress in early 1862 and proclaimed by President Jefferson Davis on February 14, 1862.

William Heiskell

William's wife, Julia, however, supported the Confederacy, and Frederick's son, Joseph, served in the Confederate Congress.

William J. Gilmore

Gilmore was born in Bedford County, Virginia, son of Dr. Eli Gilmore and Clarissa Mosby Clayton, sister of a prominent Mississippi judge, later a member of the Confederate Congress, Alexander Mosby Clayton.


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William Heiskell

A nephew, Joseph Brown Heiskell (1823–1913), served in the Tennessee Senate in the late 1850s, and represented the 1st district in the Confederate Congress during the Civil War.