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An art collector has paid about $2.3 million for a $1,000 bill printed in 1890

The photo shows the face and back of a $1000 bill that is one of only two known of its kind. You have to really be a trivia expert to know whose face appears on this one. It is Major General George G. Meade, who commanded the entire Union Army at Gettysburg. Meade was a classic late developer. He graduated from West Point in 1835, but by the time the Civil War broke out in 1861 he had only made it to captain. He didn't even make first lieutenant until 1856, fourteen years after he re-enlisted as a second lieutenant, having been content to toil away for year after year as a low-profile engineer! Only two years after the Civil War broke out, the engineer was a general, locked in a life-and-death struggle on his native Pennsylvania soil against, and ultimately defeating, Robert E. Lee.