Civil War-era partly-printed document, one page, 9.5 x 7, April 23, 1865. A falsified non-taxable certificate from the Confederate States of America, "payable two years after the ratification of a Treaty of Peace with the United States unto Miss Margie H. Burnett of Plymouth, Massachusetts" for $1000 at a rate of six percent. Signed with a false signature of Register of the Treasury Robert Tyler. In very good to fine condition, with irregular toning, and a tear to the lower right edge. As Union troops occupied Confederate towns and cities throughout the South, they took over courthouses as temporary headquarters. This document appears to be an attempt at humor on the part of a Union soldier. Of course, by April 23, 1865, Lee had surrendered at Appomattox, and the war was over.
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