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1179 Series I Volume XXXIII- Serial 60 - New Berne

Page 1179 Chapter XLV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. -CONFEDERATE.

[Numbers 21.]-JOINT RESOLUTION of thanks to the officers and men of the Twenty-eighth and Thirteenth Regiments of North Carolina Troops.

Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the thanks of Congress and of the country are due, and are hereby tendered, to the officers and men of the Twenty-eighth and Thirteenth Regiments of North Carolina Troops, who have so gallantly revolunteered for the war, and have pledged themselves, their lives and fortunes, never to lay down their arms until our soil is freed from the invading foe and our independence obtained.

Approved February 15, 1864.

[Numbers 22.]-JOINT RESOLUTION of thanks to the officers and men of the Third Georgia Regiment.

Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the thanks of Congress are due, and are hereby, through its representatives in Congress, tendered, to the officers and men of the Third Georgia Regiment, who were the first to leave their State to battle on the soil of Virginia, whose gallant dead have been left on many of her historic battle-fields, and which entire regiment to a man have cheerfully nd unanimously re-enlisted for the war, heroically resolving that as they were among the first to take up arms in the cause of liberty and independence they will be the last to lay them down.

Approved February 15, 1864.

[Numbers 23.]-JOINT RESOLUTION of thanks to the officers and men of the Twenty-second Virginia Regiment.

Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the thanks of Congress are due, and are hereby gratefully tendered, to the officers and men of the gallant Twenty-second Regiment of Virginia Infantry for their noble zeal and patriotism in re-enlisting for the war.

Approved February 15, 1864.

[Numbers 24.]-JOINT RESOLUTION of thanks to Hart's battery, Hampton Legion, South Carolina Volunteers.

Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the thanks of Congress are hereby tendered to Hart's battery. Hampton Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, for their gallant and patriotic resolution, recently adopted, to re-enlist for the war.

Approved February 15, 1864.

[Numbers 25.]-JOINT RESOLUTION of thanks to the Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment.

Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the thanks of Congress are hereby tendered to the officers and men of the Sixteenth Regiment of Mississippi Troops, Colonel Samuel E. Baker commanding, for their patriotic resolution, recently adopted, to re-enlist for the war.

Approved February 15, 1864.


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