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GOVERNORS OF STATES

WHOLLY OR IN PART IN SYMPATHY WITH THE CONFEDERATE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE.

His Excellency	A. B. Moore	Alabama	Governor in 1861.
	John Gill Shorter	"	Governor in 1862 and 1863; delegate to Provisional Congress at Montgomery.
	Thomas H. Watts	"	Governor in 1864 and 1865; had been Attorney-General of the Conferade States.
	Henry M. Rector	Arkansas	Governor in 1861 and 1862; elected August, 1860; inaugurated in November of the same year.
	Harris Flanagan	"	Governor from 1862 to 1865; inaugurated in November, 1862.
	M. S. Perry	Florida	Governor in 1861.
	John Milton	"	Governor from 1862 to 1864.
	A. K. Allison	"	Governor in 1864 and 1865.
	Joseph E. Brown	Georgia	Governor from 1861 to 1865; sole Governor of Georgia during the war.
	R. Magoffin	Kentucky	Governor in 1861.
	George W. Johnson	"	Governor in 1861 and 1862; killed at the battle of Shiloh.
	Richard Hawes	"	Governor from 1862 to 1865. The Confederate States government in Kentucky was only provisional; no terms of office were prescribed. Governor George W. Johnson was elected by the Russellville convention on the 20th of November, 1861, and served as Provisional Governor until he was killed at the Battle of Shiloh, April 7th, 1862, while bravely fighting without rank or command. Governor Hawes was elected by the Provisional Council as his successor, and he served in the capacity of Provisional Governor of Kentucky until the close of the war.
	Thomas O. Moore	Louisiana	Governor from 1860 to 1864.
	Henry W. Allen	"	Governor from January 1, 1864, to the close of the war; had served in the Confederate army, with the rank of Brigadier-General and Major-General.
	J. J. Pettus	Mississippi	Governor from 1861 to 1863.
	James Whitfield	"	Governor in 1863.
	Charles Clark	"	Governor in 1864 and 1865; had served in the Confederate army, with rank of Brigadier-General.
	Charles F. Jackson	Missouri	Governor from 18861 and 1862.
	Thomas C. Reynolds	"	Governor from 1862 to 1865.
	John W. Ellis	North Carolina	Governor from January to July, 1861.
	Henry T. Clark	"	Governor from July 1861, to January 1, 1863.
	Zebulon B. Vance	"	Governor from January 1, 1863, to the close of the war; previously in active service in the Confederate army, with the rank of Colonel.
	Francis W. Pickens	South Carolina	Governor from December, 1860, to December, 1862.
	Milledge L. Bohnam	"	Governor from December, 1862, to December, 1864; also Brigadier-General in the Confederate army.
	A. G. Magrath	"	Governor from December, 1864, to the close of the war; had been Judge of the Confederate Court for the District of South Carolina.
	Isham G. Harris	Tennessee	Governor from 1860 to the close of the war.
	Robert L. Caruthers	"	Elected Governor in August, 1863. Isham G. Harris was Governor of Tennessee when the war commenced. He was re-elected in August, 1861; this constituted his third term. Being ineligible to a fourth term, Robert L. Caruthers was elected as his successor in 1863. Nashville and a large portion of Tennessee being then occupied by the Federal Army, Mr. Carruthers was never inaugurated and Governor Harris held over, under the law, until the close of the war. Mr. Caruthers had been a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States.
	Edward Clark	Texas	Governor in 1861. Governor Sam. Houston was deposed in 1861, and was succeeded by Governor Clark.
	F. R. Lubbock	"	Governor from August, 1861, to August, 1863; had been A. D. C. to the President, with the rank of Colonel.
	Pendelton Murrah	"	Governor from August, 1863, to the close of the war.
	John Letcher	Virginia	Governor from January, 1860, to January, 1864.
	William Smith	"	Governor from January, 1864, to the close of the war. previous to election as Governor, had served in the Confederate army as Colonel, Brigadier-General and Major-General.