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The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], The second siege of Vicksburg. (search)
Confederate States Congress, Friday, January 16, 1863. Senate.--The Senate met at 12 o'clock--Hon. R. M. T. Hunter in the chair. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Burrows, of the Baptist Church. The President announced that he had received a telegram from Hon. Jas. L. Orr, of South Carolina, stating that he was detained at Charlotte by sickness, but expected to be in Richmond in a few days. Mr. Sparrow, of Louisiana, introduced a resolution instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the expediency of amending an act entitled "Act to exempt certain persons from military duty, and to report an act to exempt certain persons in the service of the Confederate States." 1st. By confining the exemption of persons allowed for the police of slaves to those cases only where the sole owner of the farm or plantation is a femme sole a minor, or person of unsound mind, or a person in the public service, absent from home in the discharge of his duty. 2d. By still