1 Dollar The Bank of Chattanooga - Tennessee

The Bank of Chattanooga was chartered in 1853 and operated through the turbulent secession period, continuing to issue notes as Tennessee left the Union in June 1861. J. Manouvrier was a New Orleans engraver and printer active in the antebellum South, supplying plate work to numerous Southern state banks during the period when Northern printers — particularly the American Bank Note Company in New York — became politically and practically inaccessible.

Union forces occupied Chattanooga in September 1863, effectively ending the bank's operations. Notes dated 1861 represent the earliest issues of what became a very short-lived wartime circulation.