The term of the Second Confederate Congress started on 18 February 1864 and was due to end on 18 February 1866. In the event the Congress did not function, after the end of its second and last session. All sessions of the Second Confederate Congress met in the Confederacy's capital of Richmond, Virginia. * 1st Session - 2 May 1864 to 14 June 1864 * 2nd Session - 7 November 1864 to 18 March 1865