SOLD! for $590.00.
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1st & 2nd items: State of Tennessee Civil War Confederate bonds, 1861, nos. 2957 and 2032, $1000 at 8 percent interest, payable in Nashville, black and white on cream paper with vignettes of the state capitol. Signed by Governor Isham Harris (1818-1897). Some coupons still attached. 15-3/4"W. 3rd item: Confederate $20 bill, type 67, no. 39176, with vignette of Tennessee state capitol building and portrait of Alexander Stephens on front. Richmond, 1864. 3" x 7". 4th & 5th items: 2 Civil War era issues of the Memphis Daily Appeal, August 19, 1863, printed in Atlanta, and September 30, 1864, printed in Montgomery, Alabama. The Confederate-leaning paper became known as the "Moving Appeal" after the 1862 Battle of Memphis resulted in Union Occupation. The paper went on the run; presses and plates were loaded onto a boxcar and moved to various locations including Atlanta, Montgomery, and finally Columbus, Georgia, where Federal forces finally caught up with it in 1865. The August 19, 1863 edition includes the text of Alabama governor John G. Shorter's address to that state's House and Senate. Among the various headline notices: "Confederate Money Wanted" in exchange for an 880 acre plantation in Alabama by E.T. Degriffenreid of Company B, 36th Alabama Regt. The Sept. 30, 1864 edition carries news of General Nathan Bedford Forrest's destruction of the railroad between Nashville and Decatur and the thwarting of a plot to seize the steamer Michigan and release the prisoners at Johnson's Island. Condition: One bond is in poor condition with extensive taping, one corner and one section of upper edge detached. The other bond has losses, separations and 2 repairs at fold lines. Currency has general discoloration and light creases. 1863 newspaper is considerably faded and toned, with several losses at fold lines and particularly the left upper edge. 1864 newspaper has losses at left edge top and bottom, creases and light toning. Condition: One bond is in poor condition with extensive taping, one corner and one section of upper edge detached. The other bond has losses, separations and 2 repairs at fold lines. Currency has general discoloration and light creases. 1863 newspaper is considerably faded and toned, with several losses at fold lines and particularly the left upper edge. 1864 newspaper has losses at left edge top and bottom, creases and light toning.