[CIVIL WAR]. To the Planters of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: 30 November 1864.

7 15/16 x 6 3/4 in. printed broadside (toned, original creases); framed to 10 7/8 x 9 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by George W. Grice, major and quartermaster. Provenance: David G. Phillips Co., 10 January 1986 (Parrish & Willingham 1296).

A broadside issued as a result of Sherman's March to the Sea, anachronistically deemed by Major Grice as a "their retreat", which cut off Confederate supply lines. Quartermaster and Major Grice of the Forage District of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida desperately addresses "the Planters of South Carolina" directly: "The enemy in their retreat through Georgia having severed all railroad communication with Southwestern Georgia, the largest grain producing section of that State...the armies in Virginia and at and near Charleston are for the present dependent upon South Carolina for their supplies of this indispensable commodity, and I appeal to you, Planters of Carolina, to come promptly to their aid with an ample supply of corn. The emergency is great. What you do must be done without delay." Parrish & Willingham 1296.

RARE: OCLC locates 1 copy at the University of South Carolina. Parrish & Willingham note only this copy, purchased at auction in 1986.

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents