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Sessions Deputies from the first seven states to secede from the Union — Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas — met at the Provisional Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Alabama in two sessions in February through May 1861. They drafted and approved the Confederate Constitution, elected Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States and designed the Confederate flag. Following the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861, the remaining states to secede sent delegates to the Confederate Congress, which met in three additional sessions between July 1861 and February 1862 in the Confederate Capitol of Richmond, Virginia. Elections for the First Confederate Congress were held on 6 November 1861. While Congressional elections in the United States were held in even-numbered years, elections for Confederate Congressman occurred in odd-numbered years. The First Confederate Congress met in four sessions in Richmond. Because of the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, only two Congressional elections were ever held; the Second Confederate Congress was selected in November 1863, but served only one year of its two-year term. The final session of the Confederate Congress adjourned on 18 March 1865. Documents Further reading United States Senate, 1904-1905 Southern History Association, 1897-1907 | ||||||||||
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