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(AMERICAN-JUDAICA). Five Dollar Confederate Note, verso printed with celebrated poem “The Confederate Note” by MAJOR SIDNEY ALROY JONAS. Souvenir Grand Commandery of Georgia, San Francisco (veterans convention). 1904. Sidney Alroy Jonas, born in 1838, worked as a civil engineer for the railroad in Mississippi when the war broke out. In July 1861, he quit his job and enlisted in the Confederate Army of the Potomac, 2nd Corps, 3rd Brigade, where he was appointed Major and Chief Commissary of Subsistence. He was at several famous campaigns, including the Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) and Chickamauga, and was at the Headquarters of Lee’s Corps when General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the camp to General William Sherman in April 1865. After the war, Sidney enjoyed minor celebrity status for penning the nostalgic ode to the lost cause of the Confederacy, ‘Lines on the Back of a Confederate Note.’ Sidney had a talent for writing, and shortly after returning to Aberdeen, Mississippi, published his own newspaper, The Aberdeen Examiner, which he ran for nearly fifty years until the day he died.” https://www.shapell.org/roster/stories/brother-against-brother-abraham-jonass-sons/.