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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;alpinex, post: 2226741, member: 34546&quot;]I read a lot of obscure history books (actually, have my phone text2speech while I commute). A few weeks ago I ran across a footnote that caught my attention. While I usually collect coins, occasionally I collect old CSA notes because they are interesting and historical. I have a $100 CSA note and knew that Lucy Pickens was pictured on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The text that caught my attention was:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;...Mr. Trenholm&#039;s daughter, Helen, whose portrait appears on an issue of Confederate bank notes.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. George Trenholm was involved in the CSA Treasury and Government, and eventually became the CSA Secretary of the Treasury.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was from a book published in 1913, A Confederate Girl&#039;s Diary, by Sarah Morgan Dawson, bottom of pg 264:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://archive.org/stream/aconfederategir01dawsgoog#page/n291/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/aconfederategir01dawsgoog#page/n291/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/stream/aconfederategir01dawsgoog#page/n291/mode/2up</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Intrigued, I looked up various photos of CSA notes and found the T44 also had a picture of a woman, but this did not look like Lucy Pickens to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did some more searching an located the FindGrave site of &quot;Helen Trenholm&quot;, complete with a photograph, which to me, resembles the woman on the T44 bill more than Lucy Pickens:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=39778753" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=39778753" rel="nofollow">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=39778753</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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