Does Civil War Notes feel like thin paper?..Almost fake feeling..hmm

So I purchased a Civil War Note ( 1863 Car. 124 $5 ) and it just feels fake or do they all have a thinpaper feel to the touch??

 

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I think they were made from some plant (I think corn-leaves) so I wouldn't be surprised if it had a different feeling.

 

Yes, the paper was thin on some of these Obsolete Civil War era bank notes. Yours looks legit.

 

Was I correct?

 

I have a Confederate One Dollar that is really thin. Those guys were out of lots of stuff at that time.

 

The Confederacy was short of everything, including paper, especially toward the end. One of the men, Blanton Duncan, who printed notes for the Confederate Government, got caught red handed stealing paper from another printer. Duncan overcharged the Confederacy for his notes, which were of mediocre quality. At one point he tried to take over another printer’s facilities under the pretext that he had authorization from the Army to do so. He didn’t.

Ultimately he became persona non grata among confederate officials. Here is a sample of his work, an 1862 Confederate note, known as T-43.



At one point Duncan thought that he could collect higher fees if he added the green "2 TWO" to the note. The officials were not moved.

 

It has little to do with the scarcity of resources. Notes during the antebellum period in the north and south were frequently printed on very thin paper.

 

Some notes from that era are printed on paper that is as thin as tissue paper

As fragile as they are, it is amazing they are even around now.

 

As a thought, was the paper from cloth (rags)? That would make it strong.

 

...and a snappy tune, too.

 

Kinda accidentally

 

You should see the Hungarian issues of 1847. Literally tissue paper

 

You should handle some Swedish notes;
But back to "Civil War" notes, why is it when Civil War notes are mentioned/talked about thoughts immediately turn to Confederate States currency.
Here's a few examples of Civil War period notes: 1862 issues
(images from notes for sale on eBay)

 

I just got a Japanese hansatsu from 1872 that looks like it is printed on cardboard!

 

I have a similar note from of all places - Hiroshima that looks strong enough to have survived a nuclear blast, I hope it didn't!