The Confederate Patent Office was the agency of the Confederate States of America charged with issuing patents on inventions. The Chief Clerk during its entire existence was Rufus R. Rhodes of Mississippi who resigned his post at the United States Patent Office after the election of Abraham Lincoln.The Confederate Patent Office is known to have issued 266 patents and likely it issued some more during the early months of 1865. Unfortunately the records it contained were destroyed in a fire.
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