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

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The statue stands on a pedestal with four cinerary urns, one for each year of the war, and is supported by a frieze with 14 shields, one for each of the 11 Confederate states and the border states ...

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 ...

The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president. In his inaugural address, delivered on March 4 ...