The First Confederate Congress was the first regular term of the legislature of the Confederate States of America. Members of the First Confederate Congress were chosen in elections mostly held on 6 November 1861.
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“Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.”
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