Commander-in-Chief Davis issues a call for 100,000 volunteers to join to the State Militias, for the defense of the Confederacy from the promised invasion by the united States.

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Subsequent Events:

4/4/1861                   5/20/1861

Authority:

Provisional Constitution for the Confederate States, Article IV, Section 3
avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csapro.asp

References:

Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 283.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,213,561,491,981

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