Papers of the Armbrister and Nye families of Wythe and Bland counties, Virginia, 1809-1889.

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Papers of the Armbrister and Nye families of Wythe and Bland counties, Virginia, 1809-1889.

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The collection contains miscellaneous financial papers of the Armbristers, chiefly store receipts, Wythe County taxes and promissory notes. Among them are several C.S.A. tax-in-kind forms and a list of purchases for the Giles County [soldiers?] hospital, 1862. Nye family correspondence chiefly concerns family health and troubles and includes a request for money for a child's schooling, a description of a deathbed scene, a request for aid in clearing a soldier of a desertion charge, and a letter from an Iowa Quaker filled with religious sentiment.

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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...

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