Beschreibung:

Articles Wanted For the Relief of the Citizens of Wilmington.
Fayetteville, NC]: 4 October 1862. Broadside (300 x 235 mm). Signed in print by A. W. Steel and T. S. Lutterloh. Condition : browned and wrinkled, minor losses at the corners well outside the text. unrecorded confederate broadside seeking provisions to relieve suffering in yellow fever stricken wilmington. The text of the broadside continues: “Cash will be paid for the delivery, to the undersigned Committee, of the following articles, viz: Sheep or Lambs, alive; Poultry of all kinds, ditto; Butter; Lard; Dried Fruit; Bacon; Corn Meal; Potatoes, Sweet and Irish; Beef Cattle.” After giving details on when and where the material would be collected, the broadside continues: “The suffering of the people of Wilmington whilst cut off from communication by the afflictive visitation which has befallen their town, prompting the call for the above articles …” It is thought that yellow fever was brought into the port of Wilmington by a blockade runner in the late summer of 1862. After two months of suffering through the epidemic, over 300 citizens of Wilmington had died. This broadside not listed in Parrish & Willingham or Hummel.