Confederate States of America

Biographical notes:

During the Civil War, the Confederate States of America issued their own currency notes. These circulated like cash, but were technically bills of credit. At the beginning of the war, they circulated widely, but by the end of the war they had lost nearly all their value. Many of the bills remained in private hands after the war and became collectible as memorabilia. Other bills, which the Union Army had confiscated, were in the hands of the United States War Department; it transferred them to the Treasury Department in 1867. In 1912, the Treasury Department disbursed many of these bills to cultural institutions around the country, in the interest of public education.

From the guide to the Confederate Currency Collection, 1861-1864, (Pacific University Archives)

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Subjects:

  • United States
  • United States
  • United States
  • Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Businessmen
  • Chickasaw Indians
  • Choctaw Indians
  • Civil War America
  • Cotton trade
  • Debts, Public
  • Diplomatic and consular service, Confederate
  • Executive departments
  • Finance
  • Finance, Public
  • Flags
  • Government, Law and Politics
  • Hospitals
  • Legislative bodies
  • Letters
  • Medicine, Military
  • Mines and mineral resources
  • Mines and mineral resources
  • Money
  • Paper money
  • Railroad passes
  • Women spies

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Places:

  • France (as recorded)
  • Confederate States of America. (as recorded)
  • Mexico (as recorded)
  • Southeastern United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Great Britain (as recorded)
  • Belgium (as recorded)
  • North Carolina (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Confederate States of America (as recorded)

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