The Civil War Collection of James C. Frasca

17 February 1864 series Confederate $500 note (creased, with soiling throughout, rips and tears to edges) -- 2 1854 State of Indiana Wabash River Bank notes, $5 and $10 (creased, with soiling throughout and minor rips and loss to edges and corners). -- Together, 3 notes, each 7 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. or smaller. Accompanied by "Windsor Hotel / A.D. Sutton, Prop. / Hannibal, Mo" cover inscribed by Sutton:

"For Wm H. Sutton / A.D. Sutton. / $683.10 Confederate Money. Made, and saved, by me in Andersonville prison, while a prisoner of War, Six Months, in 1864. Made it in trading, buying and selling, Beans, Potatoes, Onion, Tobacco, &c&c, inside the stockade. I made and saved during my confinement in Southern prisons, Sept 20th 1863 untill [sic] December 1864, (more than fourteen months) $1100.00) but have been giving it away for years to friends, as keepsakes & souvenirs of my confinement in that old pest hole Andersonville prison. I was confined during that time in the following prisons Belle Isle Va, Richmond Va, Danville Va, Andersonville Ga, Charleston S.C. and Florence S.C. The balance of this money, $683.10 Enclosed in this Envelope is for my Dear good Son Wm. H Sutton to keep or dispose of as he may desire. / A.D. Sutton."