Confederate paper money was a promise to exchange the bill for gold or silver, but only after the Confederacy won the war.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Wednesday for removal of 11 Confederate statues from ... president of the Confederate States of America, and the marble statue of Alexander Stephens, who ...

Over the next four years, the 11 Confederate states were pitted against armies from the Northeast, Midwest, and Western states and territories, dedicated to preserving the Union, and battles raged ...