Commander-in-Chief Davis appoints Brigadier General Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, of the Army of the Confederate States, as commander of C.S. defenses in Charleston, South Carolina.

       [restored 3/13/2022]

Subsequent Events:

4/17/1861                   7/24/1861                   5/27/1863                  7/14/1870

Authority:

Provisional Confederate Constitution, Article II, Section 2 [Clause 1]
avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csapro.asp

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 164.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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