1865 Certificate of Loan to Buy Corn for Soldiers’ Families. . 1865. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54239.
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(1865). 1865 certificate of loan to buy corn for soldiers’ families. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54239.
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1865 Certificate of Loan to Buy Corn for Soldiers’ Families. 1865. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54239.
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The certificate was for a $1,500 loan to the Tuscaloosa County Commissioners to buy corn for soldiers’ families. Food shortages in the Confederate States towards the end of the Civil War caused the price of food to increase by 10%.
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