12/23/1862 to 01/05/1863
The third "lame duck" session of the Thirty-seventh Congress of the United States adjourned for its fourteen day holiday recess. It returned on January 6, 1863. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, "House History." http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/index.html