Civil War covers collection, 1861-1865.

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Civil War covers collection, 1861-1865.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/729733169

Approximately 350 U.S. Civil War covers, including eagles, cartoons, banners and shields, flags, State of Connecticut and City of Hartford seals, men and women, and other designs.

350 items.

Litchfield Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8099562

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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...