First Confederate government bond authorized

The Confederate Congress authorized the first Confederate States government bond issue.  The amount was not to exceed fifteen million dollars. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 122.
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Type
    Lawmaking/Litigating
    Relevance
    Personal
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