The Second Confederate Congress was the second and last regular term of the legislature of the Confederate States of America. Members of the Second Confederate Congress were chosen in elections held at various dates in 1863 and 1864. They only served for just over one year of their two-year term since the American Civil War ended and the Confederacy was defeated.
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