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[Trivia Master]

1. During the war who owned and ran the company situated at 403 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia?
2. What was his most profitable item, both wholesale and retail?
3. What was reaction of the Confederate Congress?

credit: @Brenal

 

[hughes]

1. Sam Upham
2. counterfeit Confederate money
3. Only US greenbacks would be accepted in the cotton trade

 

[hughes]

ADDITION:

3. a $10,000 bounty was placed upon him (I do not know in what currency it would be paid)

 

[bayouace]

1. Sam Upham
2. Meticulously printed Confederate money copies sold as souvenirs.

 

[bayouace]

1. Sam Upham
2. Meticulously printed Confederate money copies sold as souvenirs.

3. The CSA government established the death penalty for counterfeiting. Upham printed $15 million worth at a profit of $50,000. That's close to $1.5 million today.
Sorry, about the extra post. Dunno what happened.

 

[DBF]

1. That would be Samuel C. Upham (1819–1885)
2. He hit the big time when he counterfeited Confederate currency.
3. The Confederate Congress reacted by imposing the death sentence on convicted counterfeiters and placed a $10,000 bounty on Upham's.
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Samuel-Upham-The-Counterfeiter-Who-Helped-Win-The-Civil-War

 

[streetwiseprof]

1. Samuel C. Upham.
2. Counterfeit Confederate currency.
3. The Confederate Congress imposed the penalty of death on convicted counterfeiters. (One--not Upham--was convicted and executed.)

 

[ErnieMac]

1. During the war who owned and ran the company situated at 403 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia? Samuel C. Upham.
2. What was his most profitable item, both wholesale and retail? Confederate currency.
3. What was reaction of the Confederate Congress? The Confederate Congress voted to impose the death penalty on anyone convicted of counterfeiting Confederate currency.

Samuel C. Upham - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[gentlemanrob]

1. Samuel Upham
2. FAC-SIMILE CONFEDERATE NOTE SOLD WHOLESALE OR RETAIL BY S. C. UPHAM, 403 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
3. Confederate Congress even declared counterfeiting to be a crime that was punishable by death!

 

[Ole Miss]

1) Samuel C. Upham
2) "mementos of the Rebellion" counterfeit Confederate currency
3) Issued a death sentence on convicted counterfeiters
Regards
David

 

[WJC]

1. During the war who owned and ran the company situated at 403 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia?
2. What was his most profitable item, both wholesale and retail?
3. What was reaction of the Confederate Congress?

credit: @Brenal

1. Samuel Curtis aka Honest Sam Upham (1819-1895);
2. "Facsimile" Confederate notes;
3. Considering him a counterfeiter, the rebel Congress passed law imposing the death penalty on convicted counterfeiters.
Source: Marc D. Weidenmier, "Bogus Money Matters: Sam Upham and his Confederate Counterfeiting Business", Business and Economic History, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 313–24.

 

[sarladaise]

1. Samuel Curtis Upham - his company was a stationary and toiletries shop
2. His most profitable item were counterfeit Confederate bills
3. The Confederate Congress imposed the death sentence on convicted counterfeiters
President Davis put a bounty of $ 10.000,-- on Upham's head

 

[kholland]

1 Samuel C Upham
2 "Fac-simile Confederate Notes (novelty fake money)
3 a death sentence for him and other counterfeiters if caught

 

[JOHN42768]

1) S.C. Upham
2) copies of Confederate paper currency
3) J. Davis put a #10,000.00 bounty on Upham
source: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/03/24/11-things-might-not-know-samuel-upham/

 

[JFW22]

1) S.C.Upham
2) Counterfeit Confederate money; The notes which sold for a penny each contained a line across the bottom which read "Fac-simile Confederate Note – Sold wholesale and retail by S.C. Upham 403 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia." It was only when cotton traders started trimming off the line and spending the money that the South was flooded with counterfeits.
3) The Confederate Congress made counterfeiting a capital crime and Jefferson Davis put a bounty on S.C. Upham for $10,000 dollars dead or alive.

Source:

Samuel Upham: The Counterfeiter Who Helped Win the Civil War

Samuel Upham ran a perfectly legal counterfeiting business during the Civil War that helped destroy the value of Confederate money, and hastened the collapse of the Southern economy.

owlcation.com

Great Historical Counterfeits | History Detectives | PBS

 

[hoosier]

1. Samuel Upham
2. Counterfeit Confederate money
3. They made counterfeiting a capital crime.

 

[Pollaco]

1.Samuel Curtis Upham
2.Fac-simile Confederate Notes.( Reproductions, souvenirs, fakes, bogus, counterfeit etc.)
3.Confederate Congress declared counterfeiting to be a crime punishable by death. According to Upham a $10, 000 bounty was placed on himself.

 

[Gibbon]

1. Samuel Curtis Upham
2. Fake Confederate notes shin plasters and stamps.
3.the Confederate Congress announced the death penalty for counterfeiting and Upham claimed there was a $10000 bounty on him dead or alive. It was also claimed his fakes represented over 2.5% of all Confederate currency.

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

1. Samuel Upham
2. "Souvenir" Confederate currency that was used as counterfeit
3. They put a bounty of $10,000 on Upham's head

 

[Sheltowee]

Questions-
1. Samuel C Upham
2. Illegitimate confederate currency (paper notes)
3. Passed a resolution for the death sentence of convicted counterfeiters. Reportedly issued a $10,000 reward for his capture.



Answers-
1. Samuel C Upham
2. Illegitimate confederate currency (paper notes)
3. Passed a resolution for the death sentence of convicted counterfeiters. Reportedly issued a $10,000 reward for his capture.

Source: Wikipedia

Edit - Correct, Sheltowee. Welcome to CivilWarTalk and to the trivia game.

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hoosier