The Constitution of the Confederacy-- Part 2: Manuscripts Sold in 1883

Felix G. De Fontaine found the Constitutions in boxes which had been abandoned at the train station by fleeing Confederate troops.  Also were other records of the Confederate government which were being sent south after the evacuation of Richmond earlier that month.

De Fontaine sold the manuscript copy of the Provisional Constitution at auction in New York in 1883.    It is now in the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond.  He sold the manuscript copy of the Permanent Confederate Constitution to  Mrs. George Wymberley Jones DeRenne on July 4, 1883.

The University of Georgia purchased the Constitution from the DeRenne family in 1939.

So It Is At UGA.  --Old SeConst