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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