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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Confederate Money, A&M 0302, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

An artificial collection of paper currency issued by the Confederate State of America, during the years of the Civil War, 1861-1865.

Folder 1 contains 5 notes issued by the cities Lewisburg, Union, and Charlestown [now Charles Town], Confederate cities located in what is now the state of West Virginia (1861-1863). These items are black and white photocopies.

Folder 2 contains three treasury notes from the state of Virginia (1862) and two Confederate currency notes (1864).

Folder 3 contains 1 facsimile of a Confederate currency note and 1 novelty paper currency note (ca. 1905).

Please see A&M 2096, Currency Collection, for additional examples of Confederate currency.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Money -- Confederate States of America