Confederate Currency, 1862
This one-dollar bank note issued by the Confederate States of America in 1862 features a portrait of Clement Claiborne Clay, a spy for the Confederate War Department whose work to coordinate the activities of Confederate sympathizers brought him to the Great Lakes area, including Niagara. He was stationed in St. Catharines in 1864 and was part of a secret meeting with President Lincoln’s aide John Hay in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in an attempt to negotiate peace.
More records about Clement Clay and the Confederate spy network in Niagara and Canada can be found in the Linda Bramble Research Papers.
