THE LAST PROCLAMATION OF PRESIDENT

DAVIS.

DANVILLE, VA., April 5, 1865.

THE General-in-Chief found it necessary to make such movements of his troops as to uncover the capital. It would be unwise to conceal the moral and material injury to our cause resulting from the occupation of our capital by the enemy. It is equally unwise and unworthy of us to allow our own energies to falter, and our efforts to become relaxed under reverses, however calamitous they may be. For many months the largest and finest army of the Confederacy, under a leader whose presence inspires equal confidence in the troops and the people, has been greatly trammelled by the necessity of keeping constant watch over the approaches to the capital, and has thus been forced to forego more than one opportunity for promising enterprise. It is for us,

my countrymen, to show by our bearing under reverses how wretched has been the self-deception of those who have believed us less able to endure misfortune with fortitude than to encounter dangers with courage.

We have now entered upon a new phase of the struggle. Relieved from the necessity of guarding particular points, our army will be free to move from point to point, to strike the enemy in detail far from his base. Let us but will it, and we are free.

Animated by that confidence in your spirit and fortitude which never yet failed me, I announce to you, fellow-countrymen, that it is my purpose to maintain your cause with my whole heart and soul; that I will never consent to abandon to the enemy one foot of the soil of any of the States of the Confederacy. That Virginia-noble State-whose ancient renown has been eclipsed by her still more glorious recent history; whose bosom has been bared to receive the main shock of this war; whose sons and daughters have exhibited heroism so sublime as to render her illustrious in all time to come-that Virginia, with the help of the people, and by the blessing of Providence, shall be held and defended, and no peace ever be made with the infamous invaders of her territory.

If by the stress of numbers we should ever be

compelled to a temporary withdrawal from her limits, or those of any other Border State, we will return until the baffled and exhausted enemy shall abandon in despair his endless and impossible task of making slaves of a people resolved to be free.

Let us, then, not despond, my countrymen, but, relying on God, meet the foe with fresh defiance, and with unconquered and unconquerable hearts.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

GENERALS OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.*

GENERALS.

1. Samuel Cooper, Virginia, adjutant general. 2. Albert S. Johnston, Texas, commanding in Kentucky.

3. Joseph E. Johnston, Virginia, commanding Northern Virginia.

4. Robert E. Lee, Virginia, commanding South Atlantic coast.

5. P. G. T. Beauregard, Louisiana, commanding Army of Potomac.

6. Braxton Bragg, Louisiana, commanding at Pensacola.

* This list refers generally to the first period of the war. There were, of course, many shittings of command, promotions, changes in the names of military departments, &c., that it is impossible to include. The early Confederate armies in Virginia were known as "the Army of the Potomac" and "the Army of the Shenandoah.” Afterwards there were only known two great army organizations in the Confederacy, east or the Mississippi River-"the Army of Northern Virginia" and "the Army of Tennessee."

LIEUTENANT-GENERALS.

1. Leonidas Polk, Louisiana, commanding at Memphis.

2. Earl Van Dorn, Mississippi, Army of Potomac. 3. Theophilus H. Holmes, North Carolina, Army of Potomac.

4. James Longstreet, Alabama, Army of Po

tomac.

5. Thomas J. Jackson, Virginia, commanding Northwestern Virginia.

6. Edmund Kirby Smith, Florida, Army of Po

tomac.

7. Richard S. Ewell, Virginia, Army of Potomac.

MAJOR-GENERALS.

1. David E. Twiggs, Georgia, resigned.

2. Gustavus W. Smith, Kentucky, Army of Po

tomac.

3. William J. Hardee, Georgia, Missouri.

4. Benjamin Huger, South Carolina, commanding at Norfolk.

5. John B. Magruder, Virginia, commanding at Yorktown.

6. Mansfield Lovell, Virginia, commanding coast of Louisiana.

7. George. B. Crittenden, Kentucky, commanding East Tennessee.