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CSA Money- A Field Guide to Confederate Currency by William Chester Book Summary

The Confederate Field Guide is organized under the Criswell Numbering System from T-1, the first note issued in Montgomery to T-72, the last fifty cent note issued in Columbia, S.C..  

The guide uses HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOGRAPHS.  This allows the user to expand the note and see the most minute details.  

A price history going back to 1964 with current quotes on all notes is included in the guide.  The guide also contains a list of serial numbers for worthless reprints. 

The 376 page guide also gives the history of each note which includes the biographies of the signatories.  Each portrait and vignette is explained in detail.  In every case, careful attention to detail allows the reader to experience the war through hundreds of illustrations and articles as he investigates each and every note issued by the Confederate States of America during the War for Southern Independence.

Did you know . . . 

William Alexander McCain, great-great grandfather of Arizona Senator John McCain, owned a plantation in Teoc Mississippi. At least 52 slaves worked there. He died in 1863, fighting for the Confederacy during the War for Southern Independence. Bill McCain, a descendant and cousin of Senator McCain, still owns 1500 of the plantation's former 2,000 acres. Since 2003, black and white descendants of the community at Teoc have attended family reunions organized by the black McCains, descended from the plantation's slaves.

George S. Patton, Sr. was a Confederate Colonel during the War of Northern Aggression.  He is famous for being the grandfather of World War II hero George S. Patton.

The Battle of Monocacy Junction was fought on July 9, 1864, approximately 6 miles from Frederick, Maryland,  Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early defeated Union forces under Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace. The battle was part of Early's raid through the Shenandoah Valley and into Maryland in an attempt to divert Union forces away from Gen. Robert E. Lee's army under siege at Petersburg, Virginia. The battle was the northernmost Confederate victory of the war. While the Union troops retreated to Baltimore, Maryland, the Confederates continued toward Washington, D.C., but the Battle at Monocacy delayed Early's march for a day, allowing time for Union reinforcements to arrive in the Union capital. The Confederates launched an attack on Washington on July 12 at the Battle of Fort Stevens, but were unsuccessful and retreated to Virginia.  The South came within hours of winning the war.

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