20 Dollars State of Louisiana

Louisiana issued this note in 1863 while Baton Rouge and New Orleans were already under Union occupation, leaving the Confederate state government operating from Shreveport. The practical reach of these obligations was shrinking fast, and notes issued that year circulated in an increasingly narrow corridor of Confederate-held territory in the northwestern parishes.

B. Duncan of Columbia, South Carolina, handled a substantial portion of Confederate state printing after Southern access to Northern printers collapsed entirely in 1861. Duncan's output for multiple Confederate states during this period shows consistent quality under difficult supply conditions — paper stock being the chronic limitation, not press capability.