State publications, 1861.

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State publications, 1861.

This convention enacted the Ordinance of Secession. These state publications include the Ordinances adopted by the people of the State of Alabama, 29 pp., the Journal of the Constitutional Convention, 258 pp., and the Ordinances and Constitution of the State of Alabama, with the Consitution of the Provisional Government and of the Confederate States of America, 152 pp.

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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...

Alabama. Secession Convention (1861).

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Authorities: 1859-1860 Alabama Acts, Joint Resolutions n.n. 1923 Alabama Code, Vol. 1, 1861 Constitution. "The Alabama Secession Convention," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 3 (1941): 269-468. Markley, Anne Ethelyn. Author Headings for the Official Publications of the State of Alabama. Chicago: American Library Association, 1948. Owen, Thomas McAdory. The History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Chicag...