Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin instructed James Mason to arrange for its manufacture in London.

The Seal of the Confederate States prominently features the Statue of Washington in the capital square at Richmond.

[1] In the seal, George Washington is surrounded with a wreath made of some of the main agricultural products of the Confederacy: wheat, corn, tobacco, cotton, rice, and sugar cane.

"[4] According to the Richmond Whig of September 25, 1862, a design that passed the Senate represented in the foreground a Confederate soldier, in position to charge bayonet; in the middle distance, a woman with a child in front of a church, both with hands uplifted in the attitude of prayer; for a background, a homestead in the plain, with mountains in the distance beneath the meridian sun; the whole surrounded by a wreath composed of the stalks of sugar-cane, the rice, the cotton and the tobacco plants, the margin inscribed with the words 'Seal of the Confederate States of America' above, and 'Our Homes and Constitutions' beneath.

[5] The final design was approved on April 30, 1863,[1] and a set of embossing dies ordered from London engraver Joseph Wyon.