Telegram from General Gustave Toutant Beauregard to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 10, 1862
Title
Telegram from General Gustave Toutant Beauregard to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 10, 1862
Description
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Gustave Toutant Beauregard in Tupelo, Mississippi, informing him that all soldiers that do not have sick leave or furlough must be treated as deserters.
Creator
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893
Publisher
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. (electronic version); Mississippi Digital Library. (electronic version)
Date
1862-06-10
Contributor
Funding for this project provided by The Dale Center for Study of War and Society-USM, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the Mississippi Digital Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the Watson-Brown Foundation
Rights
NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Language
English
Identifier
mdah_762-948-05-38
Coverage
1862
Text
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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 recieved to the station from which it is orginally 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 delievery of repeated messages, beyond an amount exceding two hundred times the amount paid for sending the messages; 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 ommission of any other Company, over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination.
All messages hereafter recieved by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.
N. GREEN. Pres't, Louisville, Ky.
June 10th 186[strikethrough]1[strikethrough]2
By telegaph from Tupelo 9th" 186[strikethrough]1[strikethrough]2
To Gov J J Pettus
All soldiers not regularly provided with sick leaves or furloughs must be arrested & treated as deserters—
G T Beauregard
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Gen. Beauregard to treat sick soldiers not provided with sick leaves or furloughs as deserters
June 1862
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 recieved to the station from which it is orginally 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 delievery of repeated messages, beyond an amount exceding two hundred times the amount paid for sending the messages; 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 ommission of any other Company, over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination.
All messages hereafter recieved by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.
N. GREEN. Pres't, Louisville, Ky.
June 10th 186[strikethrough]1[strikethrough]2
By telegaph from Tupelo 9th" 186[strikethrough]1[strikethrough]2
To Gov J J Pettus
All soldiers not regularly provided with sick leaves or furloughs must be arrested & treated as deserters—
G T Beauregard
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Gen. Beauregard to treat sick soldiers not provided with sick leaves or furloughs as deserters
June 1862