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The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
Confederate Congress. Senate. Tuesday, December 6, 1864. Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Edwards, of the Methodist church. Mr. Hill, of Georgia, entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which was rejected House bill in relation to the receipt of counterfeit treasury notes by public officers. Mr. Sparrow, from the Military Committee, reported a bill to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work on fortifications and perform other labors connected with the defences of the country, which was placed on the calendar and ordered to be printed. [The bill makes all free negroes between eighteen and fifty liable to be taken to perform any labor connected with the defence of the country, and authorizes the Secretary of War to hire or impress 30,000 slaves, between eighteen and forty-five, east of the Mississippi, and the commanding general of the Trans-Mississippi Department, on the west side of the Mississippi river, to hire or impress 10,000 slaves, between