Today's Historical Tidbit 8/19

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

 

....this was in 1898. 

[MickinMD ★]

2 hours ago, F_in Ray Of Sunshine said:

 

....this was in 1898. 

In 1864-5, When Robert E Lee's army was guarding Petersburg and Richmond and then marching away to try to hook up with Johnston's Army in South Carolina, he had a tremendous problem getting farmers to sell food for his Army because they didn't want to accept what they knew would eventually be worthless Confederate script.

The Union Army had no trouble buying food from Virginia farmers in the vicinity of Richmond.  Of course, those farmers knew that Gen. Sheridan had burned down a lot of farms in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 that were supplying the Confederate Army and Sheridan was back with Grant and blocking Lee's army from fleeing South across the river by 1865.

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

3 minutes ago, MickinMD said:

they didn't want to accept what they knew would eventually be worthless Confederate script

...and yet, 35 years later, this guy was dumb enough to take it....

[Airehead]

3 hours ago, F_in Ray Of Sunshine said:

...and yet, 35 years later, this guy was dumb enough to take it....

Exactly what I was thinking.  How is this even a crime?

[Airehead]

Maybe he should have kept it?

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