Telegram from Captain Charles D. Fontaine to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; April 6, 1863

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Telegram from Captain Charles D. Fontaine to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; April 6, 1863

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Bogan, Robert J. H.Fontaine, Charles D.Green, Norvin, 1818-1893 Liddel, F.Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867

Military Units

Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi. Infantry Regiment, 21st Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi. Infantry Regiment, 21st. Company F United States. Army

Organizations and Businesses

Telegraph Company Telegraph Company--South-Western Telegraph Company (Ky.)

Places

Grenada (Miss.)Kentucky Louisville (Ky.)Pecan Point (Ark.)

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South-Western Telegraph Company.

THE PUBLIC are notified, that in order to guard against mistakes in the transmission of messages, every message of importance ought to be repeated, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received to the station from which it is originally sent. Half the usual price for transmission will be charged for repeating the message, and while this company will, as heretofore, use every precaution to ensure correctness, it will not be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmissions or delivery of repeated messages, beyond an amount exceeding two hundred times the amount paid for sending the message; nor will it be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission of unrepeated mes-sages, from whatever cause they may arise, nor will it be responsible for delays arising from interruptions in the working of its Telegraphs, nor for any mistake or omission of any other Company, over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination.

All messages will hereafter be received by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.

N. GREEN, Pres't, Louisville, Ky.

April 6 1863

By Telegraph from Grenada 6 1863
To Gov Pettus—

Lieut Bogan of 21_st Miss. reg^t has just arrived "he says the militia under" Maj F. Liddell yesterday at " 8 oclock A.m. fired at the Yanks on trans=ports going "down just below Pecan Point." All fell who were on "deck" Except three men—He "thinks between twenty & thirty men were" Killed & wounded as the" fire was from an ambush" in less than thirty Yards the "pilot was not hit" & the boat Escaped one man wounded on ourside

Chas D Fontaine
Comdg Post

80 pd

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C D Fontaine