Telegram from General Gideon J. Pillow to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; August 22, 1863

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Telegram from General Gideon J. Pillow to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; August 22, 1863

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Johnston, Unknown Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867 Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878 Van Horne, John

Organizations

Confederate States of America--Ordnance Factories Prisons Telegraph Company Telegraph Company--South-Western Telegraph Company (Jackson, Miss.)

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Columbus (Miss.)Jackson (Miss.)Macon (Miss.)Selma (Ala.)

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South-Western Telegraph Company.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Jackson, Miss.

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 mis-takes or delays in the transmission 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 messages from whatever cause they may arise, nor 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 for transmission, subject to the above conditions.

JNO. VAN HORNE, Pres’t.

Aug 22 1863.

By Telegraph From Columbus 1863.
To His Excellency Gov Pettus

My ordnance officer Capt Johnston reports the discovery of a quantity of sheet copper in the old Penitentiary of your state which is greatly needed to make caps of—may I have it removed to our cap factory at selma?

Gid J. Pillow
Brig Genl &c

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Gov Pettus
Macon