Editing 2nd Confederate States Congress (section)

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{{Infobox legislature
| name = 2nd Confederate States Congress
| coa_pic = Seal of the Confederate States of America.svg
| coa_alt = Equestrian portrait of Washington (after the statue which surmounts his monument in the capitol square, at Richmond,) surrounded with a wreath composed of the principal agricultural products of the Confederacy, (cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, wheat and rice,) and having around its margin the words: "The Confederate States of America, twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," with the following motto: "Deo vindice"
| coa_caption = [[Seal of the Confederate States]]<!-- EDITORS NOTE: Please do not add the words "Great" or "of America" as it would be historically inaccurate. Those words were not in the 1863 law passed by the C.S. Congress establishing the Seal. Thank you. -->
| logo_pic = Flag of the Confederate States of America (1865).svg{{!}}border
| logo_caption = {{nowrap|[[Flags of the Confederate States of America#Third flag|Flag of the Confederate States (1865)]]}}
| house_type = [[Bicameralism|Bicameral]]
| houses = Senate<br />House of Representatives
| foundation = {{Start date|1864|5|2}}
| disbanded = {{End date|1865|3|18}}
| preceded_by = [[1st Confederate States Congress|1st]]
| leader1_type = [[Vice President of the Confederate States|Senate President]]
| leader1 = [[Alexander H. Stephens]]
| leader2_type = [[President pro tempore|Senate Pres. pro tem]]:
| leader2 = [[Robert M. T. Hunter|R. M. T. Hunter]]
| leader3_type = [[Speaker (politics)|House Speaker]]:
| leader3 = [[Thomas S. Bocock]]
| session_room = Virginia Capitol 1865.jpg
| session_res = 250px
| session_alt = Second Capitol of the Confederate States (1861–1865)
| meeting_place  = {{br separated entries |[[Virginia State Capitol]] |[[Richmond, Virginia]] |[[Confederate States of America]]}}
| constitution = [[Constitution of the Confederate States]]
}}
The '''2nd Confederate States Congress''', consisting of the Confederate States Senate and the Confederate States House of Representatives, met from May 2, 1864, to March 18, 1865, during the last year of [[Jefferson Davis]]'s [[President of the Confederate States of America|presidency]], at the [[Virginia State Capitol]] in [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]], [[Virginia]];<ref>''Historical Atlas ...'', pp. 135-138</ref> the Confederacy's government effectively dissolved 16 days later, when it fled Richmond on April 3, 1865. Its members were elected in the [[1863 Confederate States House of Representatives elections|1863 congressional elections]].