To all those who suffered or died during the Civil War, especially to my grandfathers and grandmothers and their dozens of brothers and sisters
Confederate Money
Paul Varnes
Copyright © 2003 by Paul Varnes
First paperback edition 2013
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ISBN (pbk): 978-1-56164-624-1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Varnes, Paul.
Confederate money / by Paul Varnes.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-56164-271-1 (alk. paper)
1.United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction. 2. Southern States--Fiction. 3. Young Men--Fiction. I. Title.
PS3622.A75 C66 2003
813’.6--dc21
2002014659
First Edition
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Design by Shé Hicks
Printed in the United States of America
Contents
Author’s Note
Many of the episodes in this novel of the Civil War are based on stories passed along in my family. Great-great-great-grandfather Isaac Varnes Sr. moved his family to Florida in 1823, twenty-two years before Florida became a state. (A military census estimated that less than 14,000 people lived in Florida in 1835.) Isaac Jr. married Louisa Ann Mettair, a Florida native of French descent whose parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents date
