Item Description: A bill to provide for the appointment of a directing general of the armies of the Confederate States.

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Item citation: “A bill to provide for the appointment of a directing general of the armies of the Confederate States.” Confederate States of America. Congress. Senate.; Richmond, Va., 1865. Call number 196 Conf., Rare Book Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Item Transcription: 

[SECRET.]

[SENATE NO. 157]

SENATE, January 9, 1865. – Read first and second times, considered, postponed till to-morrow, and ordered to be printed.

[By Mr. SPARROW, from Committee on Military Affairs.

A BILL

To provide for the appointment of a Directing General of the armies of the Confederate States.

1  The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 

2  That there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the

3  advice and consent of the Senate, a General, to whom shall be

4  entrusted, when commissioned, the general conduct and direc-

5  tion of the military operations of our armies, during the war.