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Confederacy made tentative steps toward coining money. Many United States
silver half dollars minted in New Orleans in 1861 (1861 O) were struck by
Confederates. The 1861 O quantity includes 330,000 coins struck by the U.S.
government; 1,240,000 for the state of Louisiana after it seceded from the
Union, and 962,633 coins struck after Louisiana joined the Confederacy. Since
all of these coins were struck from U.S. dies they cannot be distinguished one
from the other.
The Confederacy’s attempt to
operate the New Orleans mint also accounts for some of the rarest coins in
American history, the so called “Confederate half dollars.” In 1861 the
Confederate government coined four silver half dollars at New Orleans using the
obverse of the regular U.S. half dollar and an original Confederate design on
the reverse side. The first of these Confederate half dollars was not found
until 1879. The other three have yet to be found.
A brief look at love, sex, and marriage in the Civil War. The book
covers courtship, marriage, birth control and pregnancy, divorce, slavery and
the impact of the war on social customs.
In 1860, disgruntled secessionists in the deep North
rebel against the central government and plunge America into Civil War. Will
the Kingdom survive? The land will run red with blood before peace comes again.
