Telegram from General Tullius Cicero Tupper to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; March 26, 1863
Title
Telegram from General Tullius Cicero Tupper to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; March 26, 1863
Subject
Confederate States of America. Army.; Mississippi. Governor; Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867
Description
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Tullius Cicero Tupper at Canton, Mississippi, asking if horses can be hired at the expense of the state to hunt down deserters.
Creator
Tupper, Tullius Cicero
Publisher
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. (electronic version); Mississippi Digital Library. (electronic version)
Date
1863-03-26
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_762-948-07-28
Coverage
1863
Text
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 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 by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.
N. GREEN, Prest., Louisville, Ky.
March 26 186[strikethrough]1[strikethrough]3
By Telegraph from Canton 26 186[strikethrough]1[strikethrough]3
To Gov Pettus
Details are here to hunt up deserters have no horses can they hire them at the Expense of the state—
T, C, Tupper
20 Col
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 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 by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.
N. GREEN, Prest., Louisville, Ky.
March 26 186[strikethrough]1[strikethrough]3
By Telegraph from Canton 26 186[strikethrough]1[strikethrough]3
To Gov Pettus
Details are here to hunt up deserters have no horses can they hire them at the Expense of the state—
T, C, Tupper
20 Col