From the McHenry County Civil War Round Table discussion group, October 2022.
** MONEY
GREENBACKS: As a way to pay the Army. Use of stamps as money. Lincoln's wallet (at Ford's Theater) has a compartment for stamps.
Confederate money was only redeemable ten years after the war.
** LINCOLN
A big supporter of any and all things new with technology and innovation. He even had a patent for a way to get boats over shallow water.
** THADDEUS LOWE
He had a competitor at Fortress Monroe. A Union barge as a base to launch balloons could be considered the first U.S. aircraft carrier.
A Balloon Corps was established. Zeppelin came to visit Lowwe during the war.
Thomas Jefferson had seen the Montgofier Brothers launch a balloon in Paris.
--Old Secesh
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