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Confederate dollar: research record

Evidence coverage: 1861–1865. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Confederate dollar

CUR-V26-CONFEDERATE-DOLLAR · Research draft

Documented obligations, prices or public accounting establish a scoped currency identity independently of surviving descendants.

One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1861–1865; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

United States dollaraccount unit branching · qualified · 1861–1864
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Children / successors

No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.

Siblings

Latest research

Historical account research

A Montgomery land sale dated 28 November 1864 specified 45,000 Confederate dollars, including a deferred 10,000-dollar obligation; the Court distinguished this unit from US dollars in both kind and value.

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Historical account research

Confederate notes became worthless in 1865. The Court permitted this private debt's historical-value recovery in US money, not note redemption.

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Historical account research

Court explicitly distinguishes contract dollars in kind and value from US dollars. Admission rests on independently denominated land-price and debt obligations, not merely depreciated notes or issuer risk.

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Unit-of-account identity review

Court explicitly distinguishes contract dollars in kind and value from US dollars. Admission rests on independently denominated land-price and debt obligations, not merely depreciated notes or issuer risk.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1864supported

A Montgomery land sale dated 28 November 1864 specified 45,000 Confederate dollars, including a deferred 10,000-dollar obligation; the Court distinguished this unit from US dollars in both kind and value.

C1408
1865supported

Confederate notes became worthless in 1865. The Court permitted this private debt's historical-value recovery in US money, not note redemption.

C1409
Evidence & research notes 5 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C1408

A Montgomery land sale dated 28 November 1864 specified 45,000 Confederate dollars, including a deferred 10,000-dollar obligation; the Court distinguished this unit from US dollars in both kind and value.

US Supreme Court · Thorington v. Smith, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 1 (1868) Citation S707 · Open source ↗

pp. 1–3 and 12–14; November 28, 1864 note; distinction between Confederate and lawful US dollars

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1409

Confederate notes became worthless in 1865. The Court permitted this private debt's historical-value recovery in US money, not note redemption.

US Supreme Court · Thorington v. Smith, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 1 (1868) Citation S707 · Open source ↗

pp. 1–3 and 12–14; November 28, 1864 note; distinction between Confederate and lawful US dollars

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1436

Confederate currency became worthless in 1865; no general successor conversion is established. Judicial recovery of the historical value of a private debt is not currency redemption.

US Supreme Court · Thorington v. Smith, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 1 (1868) Citation S707 · Open source ↗

pp. 1–3 and 12–14; November 28, 1864 note; distinction between Confederate and lawful US dollars

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1554

Court explicitly distinguishes contract dollars in kind and value from US dollars. Admission rests on independently denominated land-price and debt obligations, not merely depreciated notes or issuer risk.

US Supreme Court · Thorington v. Smith, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 1 (1868) Citation S707 · Open source ↗

pp 12–14, facts of 28 November 1864 land contract

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Inference C1676

Confederate public obligations initially continued the U.S.dollar framework:1861statutes retained existing salary, fee and official-bond amounts. By1864, local contracts used a distinct Confederate dollar denomination recognized in Thorington. Taken together this supports a regional U.S.dollar branch, without identifying a single universal separation day.

Confederate Provisional Congress; James M. Matthews, editor · Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government, first session (1861), published 1864 Citation S791 · Open source ↗

1861Acts chaptersI–II, pp.27–28; Thorington75U.S.1, pp.11–14 and1864case facts

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Scanned official statutes, relevant substantive OCR inspected.

US Supreme Court · Thorington v. Smith, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 1 (1868) Citation S707 · Open source ↗

1861Acts chaptersI–II, pp.27–28; Thorington75U.S.1, pp.11–14 and1864case facts

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

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