Provisional Council
1861-11-18 to 1865
Executive committee of the provisional Confederate government of Kentucky. Consisted of ten men from ten different congressional districts: Willis B. Machen, John W. Crockett, Jr., James P. Bates, James S. Chrisman, Philip B. Thompson, Jr., Joseph B. Burnside, Horatio W. Bruce, Eli M. Bruce, James W. Moore, and George B. Hodge. President: Willis B. Machen. Clerk: A. Frank Brown.
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Provisional Council. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204676 (November 12, 2026).
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