Volume IV / No. 243. 2 pp., 18.5” x 12. Exhibits fold-marks, else VG plus and entirely legible.

Front page contains numerous advertisements for firms such as the Congaree Iron Work and Carolina Salt Works. Also schedules for the Spartanburg & Union and the Charlotte & Carolina Railroads.

The second page contains political news and recruit notices for units such as the 23^rd S.C.V. and Company “A”, 3^rd Regiment, S.C.V. Also “a spirited appeal” from Georgia Governor Joseph e. Brown to “The Mechanics of Georgia” imploring them to manufacture as many “Georgia Pikes” [John Brown Pikes] as possible.

Reasoning that the Confederacy is outmanned and that it will never have enough guns to arm all its troops, Brown envisions Pikes as the solution. “What is to be done is this emergency? I answer, use the Georgia Pike,” with six foot staff, and side knife, eighteen inches blade, weighing about three pounds.

Let every army have a large reserve armed with a good pike and a long heavy side knife, to be brought on the field with shout for victory when the contending forces are much exhausted or when time comes for the charge or bayonets. When advancing the advancing columns come within the reach of balls let them move at double quick time…

When the retreat commences, let the pursuit be rapid, and if the enemy throw down their guns, and are likely to outrun us, let us through down the pike and keep close at their heels….Had five thousand reserves thus armed and well trained to the use of these terrible weapons, been brought to the charge at the proper time, who can say the the victory would not have been ours at Ft. Donelson…”

So reasoned Governor Joe E. Brown of Georgia on the effectiveness of “Georgia Pikes” in February 1862.

Superb South Carolina, early-war newspaper collectible. In protective sleeve, w/white card backing.  [jp][ph:L]

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