Do any of you know who's on this Confederate money?

Rollerman · June 4, 2020 12:01PM

Just ignore the other notes, just wondered who the guys are on the two Confederate notes>

CoinJunkie · June 4, 2020 12:06PM

Robert M. T. Hunter on the $10.
Clement Claiborne Clay on the $1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_dollar

fastfreddie · June 4, 2020 12:08PM

I think that's Stonewall Jackson

lcutler · June 4, 2020 12:48PM

@fastfreddie said:
I think that's Stonewall Jackson

No, Stonewall Jackson is on the 1864 $500 bill.

CoinJunkie · June 4, 2020 1:01PM

fastfreddie · June 4, 2020 2:54PM

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Rollerman · June 4, 2020 6:29PM

@CoinJunkie said:
Robert M. T. Hunter on the $10.
Clement Claiborne Clay on the $1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_dollar

Thank you! I didn't think to go to wikipedia, but I'm glad you did!

ricko · June 5, 2020 8:07AM

Nice bills.... I have often admired bills at coin shows... particularly the U.S. bills with the Indian and Buffalo art on them. Cheers, RickO

Rollerman · June 5, 2020 9:05AM

Here's some fill in information about the two gentlemen I asked about:

Hunter was a Virginia senator and speaker of the house for the US prior to the CW, and Secretary of State for the Confederacy. He was a critic of Jefferson Davis. Even the confederacy had political issues! And it was only 4 years old. You would think there was hardly time to have conflict when succession was the big thing.

Clay was an Alabama US senator prior to the war, and an Alabama confederate senator during. He was arrested for the conspiracy of Lincoln’s assassination, and later released. He lived and is buried in Huntsville.