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Keating, & Ball, fl. 1864 [Twenty dollar bill issued by the Confederate States of America]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07271.07.04 Author/Creator: Keating, & Ball, fl. 1864 Place Written: Columbia, South Carolina Type: Printed document signed Date: 17 February 1864 Pagination: 1 bill ; 8 x 18 cm. Order a Copy

One signature illegible, the other reads "D. Gill." The bill was printed by Keating & Ball. The money was in the wallet of Robert Bayly Winder, Captain and Assistant Quarter Master Confederate States of America (see GLC07271.07.01).

Keating & Ball, fl. 1864
Winder, Richard Bayly, 1828-1894

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