(CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE) At a Convention of the People of th

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SOUTH CAROLINA'S "SCROLL OF TREASON" (CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) At a Convention of the People of the State of South Carolina. . . . An Ordinance to Dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and other States United with Her. Lithograph broadside, 29 x 24 inches; worn with moderate loss in several spots along folds, substantial dampstaining in right part of image, imprint line excised from lower left. Not examined outside of frame. [Michigan, 1865]

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South Carolina's original ordinance of secession, which was essentially the Declaration of Independence of the Confederacy, was drafted and signed on 20 December 1860, and first appeared as a lithograph publication a few months later.
In March of 1865, the 102nd Regiment of United States Colored Troops found a copy in the home of a Dr. Lamb, and added their own manuscript inscription declaring it to be a "Scroll of Treason." This annotated version was brought back to Michigan and published as a war trophy, complete with the facsimile text of the original Ordinance of Secession and facsimile signatures of all the members of the South Carolina which had declared independence.