April 13, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)
On Thursday and Friday last, feeble outbreaks of females armed with pistols and bowie knives, headed by a few vagabonds, were made in Augusta, Milledgeville and Columbus, in this State, for the purpose of helping themselves to merchandize at what they considered fair prices–all of which were promptly suppressed by the proper authorities.
The Columbus Sun, alluding to the affair in that city, says:
This is some of the legitimate fruits of what Gov. Brown is pleased to call “impressments” for the benefit of the people! It began in this State with that functionary, two years ago, in Atlanta, or other markets in Georgia, where salt was selling at ten and twelve dollars per sack, and has culminated in just such riots and lawless outbreaks as we witnessed in Columbus this morning.