Counterfeit Currency of the Confederate States of America
Counterfeit Currency of the Confederate States of America

Author: George B. Tremmel

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Since shortly after the end of the Civil War, genuine Confederate paper money has been the subject of much research. While a number of publications are available today that describe and catalog the genuine currency, the availability of published information on its counterfeit counterpart is limited. What is available is somewhat incomplete, inaccurate and general in scope. This work is specifically concerned with the counterfeit currency that was produced and passed with genuine Confederate paper money during the Civil War years. The first part of the book is an historical narrative that discusses the events and people involved in the production and passing of counterfeit currency, and the countermeasures of the Confederate Treasury Department to protect its already weak medium of exchange from losing even more value. The second part of the book is an illustrated catalog that presents descriptions of all known examples of counterfeit Confederate currency. Over 180 illustrations are included and show most of the counterfeit notes. The appendix provides a brief, nontechnical explanation of the printing processes--relief printing, intaglio printing, and lithography--used in the mid-nineteenth century to manufacture counterfeit currency.

Confederate Currency
Confederate Currency

Author: Pierre Fricke

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-09-20

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 0747812721

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On February 4, 1861, the Confederate States of America was formed, and almost immediately the first Confederate notes were printed – the famous “Montgomery” notes. These would be followed by many designs over the next four years. The seventy different designs or “type” notes are eagerly sought today by collectors, historians and family historians, and a collection of Confederate currency offers fascinating insights into the tumultuous Civil-War period. Pierre Fricke examines these series of Confederate notes, highlighting the history and circumstances in which they were created. This easy-to-read, fun and educational book offers an introduction to the often beautiful notes that financed the Confederacy.

Confederate Currency
Confederate Currency

Author: John W. Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780972282321

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Confederate Currency Exhibition Catalogue is the companion book to the nationally acclaimed traveling exhibition by John W. Jones. The exhibition pairs images of enslaved Africans engraved on Confederate money with paintings inspired by the engravings.The popular exhibition has broken museum attendance records and has been critiqued and described in articles in 456 publications, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. CNN, PBS and NPR.In the book, slaves are shown clearing farmlands, planting cotton, hoeing fields, picking cotton, baling cotton, carrying cotton, bringing cotton bales to the market, steamboats and trains. There are bank notes showing slaves cooking for their white masters in SC, picking sugar cane in Tennessee and Alabama, harvesting turpentine in Georgia, carrying tobacco in Texas, feeding a horse in Virginia, harvesting corn in Missouri, working in a factory in NC, and even working on a wheat farm for George Washington.This book is the first documentation of slavery on Confederate and Southern money in one collection, and is sure to become an indispensable reference work for paper money collectors. The introduction, five scholarly essays and time-line will interest historians, museum professional, students and general readers. It includes a free CD-ROM with images of hundreds of additional currencies that show depictions of slavery.

Confederate Treasury Notes
Confederate Treasury Notes

Author: Dave Nelson

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2010-09-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781453816554

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A photographic guide to Confederate currency issued by the Confederate States Government during the War Between the States (US Civil War). This must have book for the Confederate currency collector is loaded with reference material and current banknote values. Contains color photos of the actual currency.

Queen of the Confederacy
Queen of the Confederacy

Author: Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1574411462

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This is a story of a remarkable woman - Lucy Holcombe Pickens - the wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, governor of South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War.

Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War
Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War

Author: Steven R. Boyd

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0807137960

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During the Civil War, private printers in both the North and South produced a vast array of envelopes featuring iconography designed to promote each side's war effort. Many of these "covers" featured depictions of soldiers, prominent political leaders, Union or Confederate flags, Miss Liberty, Martha Washington, or even runaway slaves -- at least fifteen thousand pro-Union and two hundred fifty pro-Confederate designs appeared between 1861 and 1865. In Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War, the first book-length analysis of these covers, Steven R. Boyd explores their imagery to understand what motivated soldiers and civilians to support a war far more protracted and destructive than anyone anticipated in 1861. Northern envelopes, Boyd shows, typically document the centrality of the preservation of the Union as the key issue that, if unsuccessful, would lead to the destruction of United States, its Constitution, and its way of life. Confederate covers, by contrast, usually illustrate a competing vision of an independent republic free of the "tyranny" of the United States. Each side's flags and presidents symbolize these two rival viewpoints. Images of presidents Davis and Lincoln, often portrayed as contestants in a boxing match, personalized the contest and served to rally citizens to the cause of southern independence or national preservation. In the course of depicting the events of the period, printers also revealed the impact of the war on females and African Americans. Some envelopes, for example, featured women on the home front engaging in a variety of patriotic tasks that would have been almost unthinkable before the war. African Americans, on the other hand, became far more visible in American popular culture, especially in the North, where Union printers showed them pursuing their own liberation from southern slavery. With more than 180 full-color illustrations, Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War is a nuanced and fascinating examination of Civil War iconography that moves a previously overlooked source from the periphery of scholarly awareness into the ongoing analysis of America's greatest tragedy.