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Bulloch History with Roger Allen - Confederacy prints money
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Roger Allen
Note: The following is the fourth in a series of columns on the origin of currency in the American colonies and Georgia. Four Southern states convened the provisional government of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 8, 1861. The first secretary of the Confederate Treasury, Christopher Gustavus Memminger, was authorized to print up to $1 million in treasury notes for the payment of the expenses of the Confederacy.
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