Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-06
co>rEpERATE NOTE-PRINTING.


nrinted from one of our exchanges upon
the subject of Confederate notes Is inter-
cstng.
II is pleasant TO hear that though the
Confederacy has been dead these thirty
three years, some of its notes or pohus
are worth their face value Those partlc-
ular issues we're printed by great en-
craving and printing-house in New YORK.
and were put forth whilst Montgomery
Ala. WAS the seat of government oil the
Confederacy.
we presume that no great quantity OF
this paper was delivered. Certain 10Y
alists Of the North made it very not
for the printing company IN quest'o'i
whe, they found that the company hau
done work for the rebels, ana inc!
caused the printing TO be stopped Hence
the rarity and consequent high price OF
specimens of the issues in question:
There was no steel-plate printing estap-
usb,oort within the bounds of the Con-
| federacv. ano the best our government
/ could do was to make a contract WI"
! Hover & Ludwig, photographers mere lor
the printing of their notes ana poluS'
| This firm long occupied the upper hoor
of the building at the southwest corner
/ Of Broad and Ninth streets. FROM thele
If moved we think, to the upper hoors
If tho Kosher building, which occupied
the lot upon which the Chamber OF Colh-
merce has since erected its imposing
home. At any rate. there was htho-
qranhic establishment in that building
when the war closed.
For the last year or two OF the war
however. most of the Confederacy's en-
craving and printing was done at column
bia. s. c. Numbers of the artists' en-
eravers. and printers were brought from
England. running the blockade. others
however. were citizens of Richmond OF
| Baltimore.
one of these Richmonders was Arthur
Dobnev. who. in May, 1864, having fur
,ougb m visit his home here, fell in with
the Richmond Blues who were returning
from a campaign in South Carolina me
Pines found the enemy occupying the
turnpike between Petersburg ana flch
mond. and with the entire regiment were
ordered to attack. Dabney was III the
UI,es' ranks as a volunteer. and was th'
6rs+ man killed on that victorious day.
Al the close of the war only the frac
tional notes were being printed mere o
those the Confederacy had accumulated
largo stock of pink paper, that was des
tined never TO be used as designed.
This paper and the presses, &c, wer
all seized and confscated by the Fedora
authorities. and the building at the corne
of Ninth and Main soon thereafter De
cor,a a newspaper office. First 1t wa
occupied by the Republic and afterWaru
nv the Examiner. The editors ana re
norters of both those journals for a Ion
tirn, had dealt out to them as 'copy
| paper some of the paper that had Dee
. boupht for the fifty-cent note issue OF IN
% Confederacy The press-work on thos
notes was done on fine double-cyllnde
nross which. having come into the pos
session of the Examiner, was disposed q
o by that paper to the Charleston Ne"
Y and Courier.
Not only was the work of printing mos
= of our notes and bonds transferred froi
= Richmond to Columbia, but our Treasur
h. Department established in that city a p'
n reau. where hundreds of young ladlC
10 were employed in signing the names
r the Treasurer and Register. Many
e these ladies went from Richmond and r.
30 manned in Columbia until the war wa
rs over. And here it may be remarks
that II was the Confederacy that first II
t., stituted in Richmond the practice
a, employing lady clerks. Previously, 1t VI
s. the rarest possible thing to see girl
I'd cupying a clerical position.