The town of Leesburg issued its own currency during the U.S. Civil War.
The town of Leesburg, Virginia, which was two miles from the Potomac River, voted to ceased form the union, with a vote of 400 to 22, after the state of Virignia established an Ordinance of Session. Leesburg changed hands a total of 150 times during the course of the U.S. Civil War.
I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.
View all posts by Hamilton Historical Records
Hamilton Historical Records 