Edward L. Robb Civil War Journal Typescript, 1862

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Edward L. Robb Civil War Journal Typescript, 1862

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Confederate States of America

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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 th...

Robb, Edward L.

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Robb was a Confederate soldier in Sibley's Texas Brigade who became a prisoner of war in the New Mexico campaign of 1862. From the guide to the Edward L. Robb Civil War Journal Typescript, 1862, (Museum of New Mexico. Fray Angélico Chávez History Library.) ...