Telegram from President Jefferson Davis to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; January 21, 1865

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Telegram from President Jefferson Davis to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; January 21, 1865

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Clark, Charles, 1811-1877 Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879 Van Horne, Jonathon

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

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Alabama Alabama--Mobile County. Mobile Mississippi--Noxubee County. Macon Virginia--Independent City. Richmond

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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 transmis-sion 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 trans-missions 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 trans-mission 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 Compa-ny, 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.

JNO. VAN HORNE, Pres't, Mobile, Ala.

Macon Jany 21 1865

By Telegraph from Richmond 18 1865
To Gov Chas ClarK

Can you furnish General Taylor any additional force? if so how many & how soon? You will appreciate the neccessity of our position & I need not urge you to extraordinary exertion.

Jeffn Davis

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Gov Clark