The Confederate States adopted their Permanent Constitution on March 11, 1861.
In 1939, the De Renne family sold the document to the University of Georgia, where it now resides..
George Wymberley Jones De Renne.
In 1883, he sold the manuscript to Mrs.
The original document, along with many other documents of the Confederacy, was found at a train station in 1865 by a war-time correspondent, Felix De Fontaine.
The original document consisted of five vellum sheets pasted together to form a scroll over twelve feet long.
The Confederate States adopted their Permanent Constitution on March 11, 1861