James M. Johnston's letters to his brother E.C. Johnston in Albemarle County, Va., relating to business activities in Bristol and Knoxville, Tenn., and Washington County, Va., and describing Bristol as a focal point of Confederate troop movements and as a trade center for purchasing agents of the Co

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James M. Johnston's letters to his brother E.C. Johnston in Albemarle County, Va., relating to business activities in Bristol and Knoxville, Tenn., and Washington County, Va., and describing Bristol as a focal point of Confederate troop movements and as a trade center for purchasing agents of the Confederate government [manuscript] 1834-1862.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647953047

Also papers mentioning John M. Railey and Mary Railey regarding the dissolving of the Albemarle County firm of Railey and Johnston.

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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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