With the words, “To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan,” President Abraham Lincoln affirmed the government's obligation to care for those injured during the war and to provide for the families of those who perished on the battlefield. May 3, 1865

In the early 1830s during a currency shortage businesses began minting copper and brass tokens with their names on them and these tokens were often used in trade for goods. Political parties also got into the game and produced thousands of tokens with the words "millions for defense, not one cent for tribute". Meaning don't pay the French back the money we borrowed to fight the British.

The Fort Lafayette across the headband reflects the plight of those protestors of the Civil War thrown into that prison and called "Confederate Sympathizers".

These are the only anti-war tokens I am aware of produced during this period. These original civil war tokens are an excellent addition to any civil war coin collection. 

Obviously, the widows of the worst war we have ever faced needed a voice. Thank God for them. Thank God for the VA, and thank you to President Lincoln for doing the right thing.

The other coin in the collection is actually even more rare than the Fort Lafayette token and depicts Lady Liberty with the words "Horrors of war, Blessings of peace". It took much courage to face social ostracization, ridicule and worse to stand up against the war machine and the propaganda of the time for the few people trying to push for an end to the war.

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