Just like coin collectors, paper bill collectors also know that these can be extremely valuable. And if you have old Confederate bills ... and issued in Richmond, Virginia. They bear a vignette ...

When di Pasquale got home from the funeral, which was attended by 6,000 people in Richmond, he found a package addressed to him that included photos and a note from Ashe, saying, “Hey ...

“We have had no success lately, and never can have success, while the enemy know all our plans and dispositions,” wrote Confederate war clerk John Beauchamp Jones on September 24 from Richmond.