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[Confederate currency]

Confederate currency from the seventh issue. Contains 60 ten dollar bills, featuring an image of field artillery in the center with Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Confederate Senator (1862-1865), in the lower right corner. Includes one 20 dollar...

GLC01446

An Act supplementary to "An Act to provide for the funding and further issue of Treasury notes."

Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds "at a rate of six per centum per annum, payable at the pleasure of the owner in the currency in which interest is paid on the other bonds of the Confederate States, or in cotton of the quality...

GLC00832.03

An act relative to prisoners of war

Confederate act concerning prisoners of war during the Civil War. With war department stamp on verso.

GLC08979.01

An act to perpetuate testimony in cases of slaves abducted or Harbored by the Enemy, and other property seized, wasted, or destroyed by them

Confederate act concerning the official documenting of slaves and other private property taken by the Union. Listed as act number two hundred and seventy.

GLC08979.02

Resolutions endorsing the recent proclamation and order of the President on the subject of retaliation

Confederate act supporting Jefferson Davis' proclimation declaring Benjamin F. Butler and other Union officers as criminals deserving of death. Supports the President's order that Butler and his officers, as well as Brigadier General John McNeil...

GLC08979.03

A bill to be entitled an act to increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities

Confederate act stating "free negroes and slaves" shall be enlisted to work as teamsters for the Confederate army. "The efficiency of the army is greatly diminished by the withdrawal from the ranks of able-bodied soldiers to act as teamsters...

GLC08979.04

An act to ammend an act entitled "An act to increase the efficiency of the army by employing free negroes and slaves in certain capacities," approved February 17th, 1864.

Confederate act increases the pay of "free negroes...to eighteen dollars a month," doubles the number of black workers the Secretary of War can impress., and orders slaves should be impressed out of dire neccesity should be taken from larger...

GLC08979.06

Amendment to Senate bill (S. 129) to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications, and so to perform other labor connected with the defenses of the country

Minor ammendments to a Confederate act concerning the use of slaves or free negroes during the Civil War.

GLC08979.07

A Bill to be entitled an act to increase the military force of the Confederate States

Confederate act allowing for the use of slaves as troops in the army. "In order to provide additional forces to repel invasion...the President be and he is authorized to ask for and accept from the owners of slaves the services of such number of...

GLC08979.08

Amendment to the Negro Soldier Bill

Confederate act ordering that "the General-in-Chief commanding the armies of the Confederate States be and he is hereby invested with the full and complete power to call into serveice of the Confederate States, to perform any duty which he may assign...

GLC08979.09