150-Year-Ago -- FORMATION OF CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA BEGINS & LIST OF FOUNDING FATHERS

The Charleston Mercury
February 4, 1861

The Southern Congress.
    To-day meets a body  charged with the duty of constructing a Confederate Government for those States which have seceded from the Union of the late United States. It is a grave mission. Since the framing of the United States Constitution and Government, no work of such magnitude and importance has been imposed upon any statesmen in this country. The counsels now Inaugurated are fraught with the destinies of the Southern people.

The Members.
     The following is a full list of gentlemen appointed to represent their respective States in the Southern Congress:

Robert B. Rhett, South Carolina delegate.
(Library of Congress)

SOUTH CAROLINA.
R.B. Rhett.
James Chesnut, Jr.
W.P. Miles.
T.J. Withers.
R.W.Barnwell.
C.G.Memminger.
L.M.Keitt.
W.W. Boyce.
FLORIDA.
Jackson Mortaon
J. Patten Anderson.
James Powers.
MISSISSIPPI.
W.P. Harris.
Walter Brooke.
W.S. Barry.
W.S. Wilson.
A.M. Clayton.
James T. Harris.

Howell Cobb, Georgia delegate.
(Library of  Congress)

J.A.P. Campbell.

ALABAMA.

R.W. Walker.

R.H. Smith.

C.J. McRae.

J.G. Shorter.

W.P. Chilton.

S.F. Hale.

D.P. Lewis.

T. Fearn.

J.L.M. Curry

 GEORGIA.
Robert Toombs.
Howell Cobb.
F.S.Bartow.
M.J. Crawford.

Duncan Kenner, Loiuisiana delegate.
(Ascension Parish Library)

E.A. Nisbet.
B.H.Hill.
A.R. Wright.
T.R.R. Cobb.
A.H. Kenan.
Alex. H. Stephens.
LOUISIANA.
J. Perkins, jr.
A. Duclouet.
C.M. Conrad.
Duncan F. Kenner.
E. Sparrow.
Henry Marshall.
NORTH CAROLINA (commissioners.)
Ex.-Governor Swain.
J.L. Bridges.
M.W.Ransom.