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| T-40 Confederate Money One Hundred Dollar Train Note |
Confederate Currency 1862 $100 Dollar CSA Train Note T-40 - Interest bearing notes
Description: This $100 Confederate note shows a Railway train with white smoke in the center with people on platform and along the left side of the note is standing woman holding a basket on her head representing a milkmaid. This note was printed with black ink and has no design on the reverse. On the back of this Confederate Money are three interest paid stamps.
Inscriptions: "Six Months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States the Confederate States of America will pay One Hundred Dollars to bearer with interest at two cents per day / Richmond June 20, 1862 / Receivable in payment of all dues except export duties / J T Paterson, Columbia SC"
No. 33333, Plate Ag. PF-1. An interesting Train Note which was issued September 24, 1862 by Richard M. Cuyler, Major, Artillery & Ordnance. A native Georgian, Cuyler saw how important Macon's railroads and foundries could be to the South's war effort. He supervised the conversion of the foundries into the Macon Arsenal and oversaw the production of small arms ammunition and artillery there.