CONFEDERATE STATE ISSUES

When the southern states succeeded from the Union in 1861, they did not adhere to the Constitutional restrictions concerning currency issues of the individual states. While official members of the Confederate States of America, many of the southern states were wary of the financial situation of the confederacy. The Confederate government allowed the individual states to print their own money as a method of financing the war. Twelve of the thirteen Confederate States had their own circulating curency during the Civil War.