Q. I have enclosed a photocopy of a $25,000 Confederate war bond. Can you advise me whether it could be worth anything?A. I’m a buff on Confederate bonds, currency and stamps and probably know ...

The Confederate Government pledged the export tax on cotton to give credit to their bonds. They next forbade the shipment of cotton to the ports from which it might be exported.

Ever since the Civil War, various British investors have hopefully and stubbornly clung to $120,000,000 par value of the bonds of the Confederate Government. The bonds were originally floated ...

War bonds trace their history as far back as the Revolutionary War, and helped finance efforts in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War as well. However, it wasn’t until 1917, ...

We found a Confederate war bond in my mother-in-law’s attic. She bought it as a gift for her father because he liked history, and then she inherited it when he died.

The American Civil War cost the federal government more than $3 billion, and much of the money was raised from the sale of Union bonds. As well as relying on ordinary Americans to finance the war, a ...

Based on accounts of how this war is going, you might as well invest in Confederate war bonds — one is no less a lost cause than the other was. Unlike the author, ...

In “Bonds of War,” Mr. Thomson describes how, after arranging an initial $50 million loan in early 1861, elite financiers in New York, Boston and Philadelphia basically told Lincoln’s ...

Author David Thomson blended Civil War-era financial and political history to show how the marketing and sale of bonds helped ensure foreign countries' vested interest in the Union's success. The ...