C0nfederate States of America constitution, 1861 Mar. 11.

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C0nfederate States of America constitution, 1861 Mar. 11.

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The collection consists of the original signed permanent constitution of the Confederate States of America, adopted on March 11, 1861. It consists of five vellum sheets pasted together and rolled, signed by Howell Cobb, President of the Congress and delegates from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.

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Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript 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...

Confederate States of America. Constitutional Convention (1861)

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The Congress of Delegates from the seceding Southern States convened at Montgomery, Alabama, on February 4, 1861. They quickly adopted a Provisional Constitution, and in less than a month, devised and approved a permanent Constitution, which was adopted March 11, 1861. The original Provisional Constitution is now in the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia. The manuscript copy of the Permanent Constitution was sold to Mrs. George Wymberley Jones DeRenne on July 4, 1883. The University...