There's something we haven't discussed yet on Uncivil.

The Confederacy was trying to fight off an enemy because they wanted independence.

And if they really wanted to prove that they could be an independent nation, they didn't

just need their own military.

They needed their own institutions and symbols.

Symbols they could use to convince people that they could be their own legitimate country.

So the war wasn't just being fought on the battlefields.

It was being fought in government offices and state houses.

The Confederacy had their own president, their own capital city, their own flag, and their

own money.

But these attempts to prove their legitimacy faced threats from all sides.

And in 1862, a new threat emerged from a very unlikely place, a small shop in Philadelphia

that sold stationary and newspapers.

The president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, was so worried about this store that he

placed a $10,000 bounty on the owner's head, Dead or Alive.

Today on the show, how a small shopkeeper named Samuel C. Uppum shook people's faith

in the Confederacy to the core.

And what the Confederacy did to shut him down.

I'm Jack Hit.

I'm Changerah Kuminyiko.

And this is Uncivil, where we ransack America's history and discover once again that whoever

controls the money controls the government.

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