Michael Mahler
Country: USA
Title in the original language: Rebel Documents, Yankee Stamps. The Untold Story of How the Union Collected Its Stamp Taxes in the Confederacy, During Wartime Occupation and by Postwar Retroactive Stamping
Publisher: Santa Monica, Paper Trail Publications
Year of publication: 2024
ISBN Code: 978-1-105-89809-9
Number of pages: 202
Price: 109.60 $
Main language: English
Short Description: This monograph explains and illustrates, via revenue-stamped documents, the means by which the U.S. government collected its wartime documentary stamp taxes from its eleven ‘rebellious states,’ otherwise known as the Confederate States of America. This was first done directly, in Union-occupied areas, primarily within U.S. Internal Revenue collection districts established in 1862-3 in Virginia, Tennessee and Louisiana; but also in Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas and North Carolina. After cessation of hostilities, wartime documents executed within the former Confederacy, in areas never occupied or in which revenue stamps were not available, were required to be stamped retroactively. In practice this applied only to documents still in effect, such as promissory notes, deeds, mortgages, bonds and the like. This often required conversion from Confederate currency to that of the U.S. to ascertain the proper tax. This material is exceedingly rar e; until now it has been virtually unrecognized by philatelists.
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