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"The Bonnie Blue Flag"
From Ballads of the Civil War 1831-1865
© Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Confederate $100-Note
1861

New money for a new government
The government of the Confederate States of America issued this hundred-dollar note in Richmond, VA, in 1861, the opening year of the Civil War.

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· National Numismatic Collection, NMAH
· Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
· "The Bonnie Blue Flag"
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