S30 September 2, 1861 $20 (front)
This note depicts Industry, with cupid to her right and a beehive to her left. The right vignette is Hope posed next to an anchor. According to most references, this note is a counterfeit produced by the North (CT-20/142). The telltale signs are features in the face of Vice President Alexander Stephens (lower left).
S41 September 1, 1862 $100 (front)
This note depicts a locomotive (according to Slabaugh, the vignette was copied from a lithograph called "The Express Train" by N. Currier. A milkmaid on the left.
S41 September 1, 1862 $100 (reverse)
Bearers of Confederate banknotes could collect interest on them each year. This particular note is stamped "Interest paid to 1st January, 1864, By Henry Savage, Depositary, Wilmington, N.C." in black. It is also stamped "INTEREST PAID TO 1st JANUARY 1865. AT AUGUSTA" in blue. The endorsement (name is Jackson) signed the note on 10/1862.
S42 December 18, 1862 $100 (front)
This note depicts slaves hoeing cotton. On the left is John C. Calhoun, and on the right is Columbia. In 1824, Calhoun was elected vice president under John Quincy Adams. Calhoun, who died in 1850, was a staunch supporter of state sovereignity.
S42 December 18, 1862 $100 (reverse)
The back of this note is stamped "INT. PD. TO JAN. 1, 1864." in black. Below it is a handwritten indication that interest was paid to January 1st, 1865.
Fifth Issue (December 2, 1862)
S53 December 2, 1862 $10 (front)
This note, printed on pink paper, depicts the South Carolina State Capitol in Columbia, and R.M.T. Hunter who was the Confederate Secretary of State and also a senator. It is interesting to note that this lithograph was drawn from an architect's drawing; the rotunda on top of the capitol never got built! Today, the capitol has a dome instead.
S53 December 2, 1862 $10 (reverse)
Blue ink lithograph.
Seventh (and final) Issue (February 17th, 1864)
S66 February 17, 1864 $1 (front)
This vivid orange note depicts Clement C. Clay, a Confederate senator.
(Reverse of this note is blank)
S67 February 17, 1864 $2 (front)
This note depicts Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate Secretary of War. Benjamin was also the first Confederate Attorney General, and the first Jewish nominee to the Supreme Court (a nomination he did not accept).
(Reverse of this note is blank)
S68 February 17, 1864 $5 (front)
This note depicts the Confederate capitol in Richmond, and C.G. Memminger. Memminger was the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury.
S68 February 17, 1864 $5 (reverse)
S69 February 17, 1864 $10 (front)
This note depicts R.M.T. Hunter who was the Confederate Secretary of State and also a senator.
S69 February 17, 1864 $10 (reverse)
S70 February 17, 1864 $20 (front)
This note depicts the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, and Alexander H. Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy.
S70 February 17, 1864 $20 (reverse)
S71 February 17, 1864 $50 (front)
This note depicts Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America.
S71 February 17, 1864 $50 (reverse)
MISSISSIPPI
February 23, 1863 Jefferson County 50 cents
This note is quite rare; it is estimated that only half a dozen still exist. Aside from this specimen, I have only seen one other. At the time this note was printed, Jefferson County was home to the city of Rodney, Mississippi. However, when the course of the Mississippi river changed, Rodney was left high and dry, and by 1870 Rodney was a ghost town (making it one of the older ghost towns in the US).
(Reverse of this note is blank)
MS13 November 1st, 1862 $5
This vivid green note was "faith of the state pledged" (versus earlier notes, which were pledged in the more tangible commodity of cotton). The note was fundable in bonds bearing 8 percent interest. The note depicts a railroad scene, with an agricultural vignette on the left, and a farmer with wheat on the right.
(Reverse of this note is blank)
MS14 November 1st, 1862 $10
This vivid green note is likewise "faith of the state pledged", and fundable in bonds with 8 percent interest. This note depicts a railroad scene, with commerce at the left, and a farmer with wheat on the right.
(Reverse of this note is blank)
MS23 May 1st, 1864 $3
This note depicts a soldier, and a Native American to the left. "THREE" is printed in orange-red ink.
(Reverse of this note is blank)
MS25 April 1st, 1865 $50
Dating from April 1865, this is one of the last, and also one of the most colorful, banknotes of the Civil War. The note depicts Commerce and Ceres sitting together, with a Native American to the left. Note the elaborate green "50" overprint.
MS25 April 1st, 1865 $50
An elaborate orange overprint on the reverse shows the denomination ($50) on either side of a man walking, and the name of the engraver (J.T. Paterson of Augusta, Georgia) below.
TEXAS
TX12 April 24, 1862 $5
(Reverse of this note is blank)
TX17 April 15, 1862 $10
(Reverse of this note is blank)
