Contributors Alphabetically	Contributors Email	DNA	Ancestor	Contributor's State
Sheila Best	sbest@suddenlink.net		Gideon	Arkansas
Emery Francis (Research)	efrancis@flash.net		Gideon	Arkansas
Melinda Jaggers (Research)	mtj@mindspring.com		Charles	Tennessee
Louise Kohl (Website & Research)	Louise@careyandlouise.com	Yes	Charles	Georgia
Sandra Olney (Research)	SOlney8683@aol.com			California
Betty Strobel (Research)	KCILDER@aol.com		Charles	Texas
Jerome & Julie Walker (Research)	jwkritters@yahoo.com	Yes	Charles	California
Joan Wright (Research)	JjWright435@aol.com	Yes	Charles	Tennessee
Anonymous	Anonymous	Yes	Charles	Anonymous
Anonymous	Anonymous	Yes	Gideon	Anonymous
Anonymous	Anonymous	Yes	Charles	Anonymous
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1863

Did you know? Some Civil War photographs have revenue stamps affixed on the reverse side. Because these stamps were required on photographs only from 1864 to 1866, their presence (or their absence) gives us the approximate dates of countless pictures of the Civil War era. As the costs of the Civil War mounted, the Federal government passed a series of new taxes in 1862, which were to be paid by means of revenue stamps. Virtually all legal documents required revenue stamps, as did a variety of goods such as playing cards, patent medicines, matches, and perfumes. Annual revenue from these stamps reached over $11,000,000 by the time the war ended; the tax on matches of one cent per hundred brought in over one million dollars a year. An act of Congress passed on June 30, 1864 added a new tax on all "photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes or any other sun-pictures," to be paid for by attaching a revenue stamp on the back of the photograph. The tax was set at 2c for a photograph "with a retail value of not over 25c, 3c for a photo costing over 25c but not over 50c; 55c for photos costing over 50c but not over a dollar; and for each additional dollar or fraction of a dollar, another 5c.