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2. Treasury Note (19th century) - Wikipedia

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   Three year Treasury Notes bearing interest at a rate of 7.30% (seven-thirty) were first authorized by the Act of July 17, 1861 to help finance the Civil War. [11] These notes were payable to order, but the Treasury would issue them in blank form if requested.

3. CSS Texas (1865) - Wikipedia

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   CSS Texas was the third and last Columbia-class (or Tennessee-class according to some sources [1]) casemate ironclad built for the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Not begun until 1864 and intended to become part of the James River Squadron , she saw no action before being captured by Union forces while still fitting out .

4. CSS Tennessee (1863) - Wikipedia

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   Her casemate design differed materially from CSS Columbia and CSS Texas, but the iron plate was the same 2 by 10 in (50 by 250 mm) as used on CSS Huntsville and CSS Tuscaloosa but triple thickness instead of double; her iron plate was made by the Shelby Iron Company in Shelby, Alabama. A fearsome detail of her defensive armament was a "hot ...

5. American Civil War - Wikipedia

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   The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

6. George H. Roach - Wikipedia

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   Roach was recommended by the colonel of the 26th Illinois for a regular commission in the U.S. Army, and on the recommendation of Attorney General George Henry Williams, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 17th U.S. Infantry, on October 1, 1873, and was stationed at Fort Abraham Lincoln on the western frontier.

7. Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States

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   During the first seven weeks of the Civil War, the U.S. Post Office still delivered mail from the seceded states. Mail that was postmarked after the date of a state's admission into the Confederacy through May 31, 1861, and bearing U.S. (Union) postage is deemed to represent 'Confederate State Usage of U.S. Stamps'. i.e., Confederate covers franked with Union stamps. [4]