Confederate paper money was a promise to exchange the bill for gold or silver, but only after the Confederacy won the war.
What happened to Confederate money after the Civil War? – Ray G., 12, Arlington, Virginia At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only ...
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The deadliest conflict in American history, the Civil War ... also suggested that the Confederate states fared much worse than the Union, with a mortality rate more than twice as high.
O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country ...
Southern operatives tried to light New York businesses on fire and bring the Northern city to its knees on this date in 1864 ...
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The remains of several more Civil War veterans were sent to Maine ... fought between the North's Union Army and the Confederate States of America at a cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.
This past week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Civil War roundtable in Wheeling. The talk was held at the Ohio County Library in the auditorium on the lower level and there was a good turnout.