<P> The naming of Richmond as the new capital took place on May 30, 1861, and the last two sessions of the Provisional Congress were held in the new capital . The Permanent Confederate Congress and President were elected in the states and army camps on November 6, 1861 . The First Congress met in four sessions in Richmond from February 18, 1862, to February 17, 1864 . The Second Congress met there in two sessions, from May 2, 1864, to March 18, 1865 . </P> <P> As war dragged on, Richmond became crowded with training and transfers, logistics and hospitals . Prices rose dramatically despite government efforts at price regulation . A movement in Congress led by Henry S. Foote of Tennessee argued for moving the capital from Richmond . At the approach of Federal armies in mid-1862, the government's archives were readied for removal . As the Wilderness Campaign progressed, Congress authorized Davis to remove the executive department and call Congress to session elsewhere in 1864 and again in 1865 . Shortly before the end of the war, the Confederate government evacuated Richmond, planning to relocate farther south . Little came of these plans before Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865 . Davis and most of his cabinet fled to Danville, Virginia, which served as their headquarters for about a week . </P> <P> Unionism was widespread in the Confederacy, especially in the mountain regions of Appalachia and the Ozarks . Unionists, led by Parson Brownlow and Senator Andrew Johnson, took control of eastern Tennessee in 1863 . Unionists also attempted control over western Virginia but never effectively held more than half the counties that formed the new state of West Virginia . </P> <P> Union forces captured parts of coastal North Carolina, and at first were welcomed by local unionists . That changed as the occupiers became perceived as oppressive, callous, radical and favorable to the Freedmen . Occupiers engaged in pillaging, freeing of slaves, and eviction of those refusing to take or reneging on the loyalty oaths, as ex-Unionists began to support the Confederate cause . </P>

What city did the confederacy choose as its capital