"Save your Confederate money, the South will rise again." My father often said those words when he handed me a nickel for a Hershey bar or a quarter for the movies. As we lived in New York City ...

Confederate paper money was a promise to exchange the bill for gold or silver, but only after the Confederacy won the war.

On March 9, 1861, the CSA authorized a national currency. Between 1861 and 1865, the new government issued Confederate currency on eight separate occasions. Each issuance pumped millions of dollars ...

Object Details user Ramsay, George William Description The trousers of a Confederate soldiers' uniform were typically butternut, gray, or blue. This pair of Model 1861 dismounted trousers were worn by ...

Trove of 700 Civil War-Era Gold Coins Discovered in Kentucky An unidentified man found the cache, which may have been buried ahead of a Confederate invasion, in a cornfield earlier this year ...

What an incredible day in the field! The History Seekers team went metal detecting in a historic Alabama farm field near a river—and the finds were nonstop. From Confederate relics to Native ...