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2 unusual facts about Congress of the Confederate States


Congress of the Confederate States

In the final episode of the series, set during Reconstruction, a former Confederate States Senator named Arthur Johnson (played by Burl Ives) arrives in the local county to begin several business ventures including buying up all available land and keeping the black population from leaving through heavy interest on sharecropping supplies.

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


Henry Marshall Ashby

Although he commanded a brigade from June 1864 and a division at the Battle of Bentonville and through the surrender of the Confederate force under the command of General Joseph E. Johnston, he was never appointed a brigadier general by Confederate President Jefferson Davis or confirmed as a general officer by the Confederate Senate.

John Perkins Ralls

(January 1, 1822 – November 22, 1904) was a physician and representative from the state of Alabama to the Congress of the Confederate States during the American Civil War, not to be confused with John Rawls the 20th-century American philosopher.

William Heiskell

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


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