Customs form, 1861 May 18.

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Customs form, 1861 May 18.

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One customs form entitled "Schedule of Free Goods introduced into the Confederate States of America," listing merchandise and the towns along the Mississippi Central Railroad to which it was shipped.

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University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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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...

Mississippi Central Railroad.

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