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Arthur, B. F. Copy of... resolution approving appointment of Beauregard by Pickens

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02284 Author/Creator: Arthur, B. F. Place Written: [Charleston, South Carolina] Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1861/04/08 Pagination: 1 p. + docket 27 x 17 cm Order a Copy

Written as clerk of the South Carolina secession convention.

In Convention April 8 1861
Resolved that this Convention approves of the action of the governor in placing the forces for the military defence [sic] of Charleston under the command of Gen Beauregard and that he be authorized to call into the field immediately such number of the Volunteer Regiments raised under the Act of Assembly as Gen Beauregard may require for the operations under his control: the whole force to be placed under the command of Gen. Beauregard or such other general officer as may be ordered to the same command by the authorities of the Confederate States of America.

A true copy
BF Arthur
Clerk of the Convention

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Civil War
Confederate States of America
Secession
Government and Civics
Militia
Military History
Confederate General or Leader
The American Civil War

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