Telegram from Confederate Adjutant General Samuel Cooper to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; December 1, 1862

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Telegram from Confederate Adjutant General Samuel Cooper to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; December 1, 1862

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People

Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876 Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 Green, Norvin, 1818-1893 Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867

Organizations

Confederate States of America--Army Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office Confederate States of America--War Department

Places

Kentucky--Jefferson County. Louisville Virginia--Independent City. Richmond

Social Identifiers

Nationality--French

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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, Prest., Louisville, Ky.

Dec 1 1862

By Telegraph from Richmond 1 1862
To Gov J. J. Pettus

By direction of the President the Secy of War directs that Gov Pettus be permitted to ship enough cotton to pay for fifty thousand sacks of salt to be brought in by a French subject

S Cooper
a & I Genl

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S Cooper
A & I Genl

Richmond

Telegram Decr 1^st 1862