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Money -- Confederate States of America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1274
Scope and Contents The bulk of the records are requisitions for clothing, accoutrements, forage, and other quartermaster supplies sent to the Army of Tennessee before, during, and after the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Also included are payment records for military officers and purchases of services and provisions from civilian contractors in Atlanta, Georgia; Augusta, Georgia; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Richmond, Virginia. Most of the records were approved and signed by Quartermaster Henry Thomas Massengale...
Dates: 1859-1865, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records

George W. Bryson correspondence and Confederate currency

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS631f
Scope and Content

This collection contains six pieces of Confederate currency (defense bonds) issued by the state of Missouri to George W. Bryson and family correspondence regarding these pieces.

Dates: 1862, 1940
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / George W. Bryson correspondence and Confederate currency

Henry "Harry" L. Stone papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS624f
Scope and Content This collection contains the daily schedule for October 9, 1865, of the 40th U. S. Colored Infantry and special orders regarding the accounting of clothing in this infantry and disciplinary action of two officers. Another special order dated August 7, 1863, appoints Stone as the clerk for the headquarters of the Department of the Ohio. Also included is early paper currency from the colony of New York produced in 1776 and the state of Maine produced in 1778. The collection contains a letter...
Dates: 1776-1875
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Henry "Harry" L. Stone papers

James L. Day Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot research materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1279
Scope and Contents

This collection contains research materials pertaining to the Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records. Included are biographical and contextual descriptions written by Day in the early 2000s about civilian contractors and Confederate officer and enlisted personnel mentioned within those records. There are also copies of webpages about these individuals and their assigned military units.

Dates: 2003-2004, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / James L. Day Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot research materials

Series II: Civil War papers, 1863-1865, undated

 Series
Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection contains administrative documents from the Confederate States Navy (CSN). Documents include vouchers, allotment tickets, pay receipts, appointments, letters and receipts for repair from the CSS Alabama, CSS Chameleon, CSS Florida, CSS Rappahannock, CSS Scylla, CSS Shenandoah, and CSS Stonewall. Additionally there are financial accounts, Confederate bonds, and receipts. Of particular note are accounting and receipt books, a checkbook, correspondence containing...
Dates: 1863-1865, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / ahc.MSS576, Harvey Smith Jr. papers

Sydney C. Kerksis papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS762
Scope and Content

This collection contains a number of Kersis' original manuscripts and the supporting research and correspondence as well as published copies of other articles.

Dates: 1946-1989
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Sydney C. Kerksis papers

United Daughters of the Confederacy collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS765
Scope and Content

This collection includes records of organizational activities of the Georgia division and of several Atlanta chapters.

Dates: 1849-1979
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / United Daughters of the Confederacy collection