</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by tacfoley:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by Doubs:
<strong>More than 50 years ago I sent off for a certificate appointing me a Colonel in the Confederate Army. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Just thinking - the amount of money my family lost supporting the valiant efforts of the Confederacy in their hopeless resistance in the face of the invading Northern Agressors would have bought us an Army, let alone a Colonelcy. tac
'whistlin' Dixie is my way of sayin' we nearly won'.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Tac, it's a shame your family didn't save their Confederate money. At one time worthless except as loo paper, the real thing is worth quite a few Yankee dollars today! Wish I had some.
On a side note, I understand that many Southern boys used Confederate money in France during WW1. It spent quite well. I also have heard that some gave the differnt color "seals" on the US bills a higher value than "face" and managed to convince a few unwary Frogs to accept it at an inflated rate.
Ya just can't trust a GI..... no matter what country they're from.