Would These Document Go Well With Civil War Era Coins

Why limit it to coin collectors? There are collectors who specialize in civil war papers. They would go nice with a weapons or uniform display. There are a hundred possibilities besides coins

I'm a history buff. I would love coins and these papers together. I would definitely add on other stuff as well, such as stated above.

There is definitely a market for all of this stuff.

Any idea how long Susan Moore drew her pension? I know the last Civil War widow died just a few years ago. (Maudie Hopkins, died Aug 17, 2008)

You know just about every CSA veteran applied for and got state indigent or disabled veteran pensions after 1910. Almost all my male relatives on my father's side fought for the CSA during the civil war. I think every single one of them applied to the state of Georgia for a civil war vet pension at some point in their old age.
My great, great, grandfather got $60 a month from Georgia and all the uncles and cousins also applied for pensions because every male 17 and over was subject to the draft I the CSA. If you go to Ancestry.com or any of these websites you can easily get copies of the applications for CSA pensions and I think also for Union pensions.
The widows of CSA vets got tiny pensions. Really just a joke. If the old or disabled civil war vet did not have children or grandchildren to take care of him in his old age he became indigent pronto. Most of these guys had been farmers or did skilled or semi-skilled work that did not include pensions. I have my great, great
grandfather's parole papers and a few sets of handwritten orders him and his brothers were issued when they went on leave. I had a cousin, Dr. Archer Avary, that lived until 1937 and he was in Cobb's cavalry at the end of the Civil war. That is sort of unbelievable when you think of it. I would not sell any family documents. I even have the deed for land granted to an ancestor for fighting in the Seminole wars in 1830's. Where the heck did that land go?

terry .. that sounds like a lot of interesting documents to look
through.

I agree .. if I had family documents like these .. I would
never sell them.

Conder10`1

One of my cousins traced my great, grandfather's family tree in the USA back to about 1660. One of the key markers are land deeds. Every time land was transferred it was recorded at the local courthouse as you say. Births, deaths, marriages may be lost to time but land transactions live forever. I know that in Maryland back in 17th century a plot of 100 acres was often referred to as a plantation. Because of constant westward expansion not every plot or plantation in the south at least was subdivided among the heirs. You know my cousin Herb hired some professional genealogist to trace his family. So far it has come to over 1300 pages of just those in his direct line. I am his 6th cousin twice removed what ever that means. His last name is Stanford and the emigration of his family from Maryland to Texas sort of follows our history. I wish he had coins. My family tree took an awful beathing on the male line during the civil war. I lost cousins at just about every major battle. You know early Americans had huge families and contrary to Europe most lived thus the population pressure to expand westward. If the average rural farming family of the time had ten children the overall population could double every generation I think because growth was exponential. Our country is a miracle and our coins are works of art to commemorate that miracle.