United States Note from 1862 with a picture of Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon Chase.
As Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln, Chase oversaw the issue of greenbacks, with $1 Notes bearing his picture. In 1864 Lincoln appointed Chase as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In Hepburn v. Griswold (Feb. 7, 1870), the Court ruled by a four-to-three majority that Congress lacked the power to make the notes legal tender. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who as Secretary of the Treasury had been involved in enacting the Legal Tender Act in 1861, wrote the majority opinion, declaring that the Congressional authorization of greenbacks as legal tender violated Fifth Amendment guarantees against deprivation of property without due process of law.
$5 Demand Note from 1862 with the statue of "Freedom" and a picture of Alexander Hamilton
Civil War Soldier's bounty check issued on December 1, 1862 by Clinton County, Iowa, to James S. Patterson of DeWitt. Patterson was a Lieutenant with the Iowa 26th Infantry who was killed in action one month later on January 11, 1863 during the Battle of Ft. Hindman at Arkansas Post, Arkansas.
Unused Civil War Army Allotment check featuring a picture of Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton
