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Blank No. 1.
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The rules of this Company require that all messages received for transmission, shall be written on the message blanks of the Company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message.

O.H. PALMER, Sec'y. 2  J.H. WADE, Pres't

Dated, Eufaula Ala Novr 4 1867
Received at Montgomery Novr 4
To Bvt Maj Gen W Swayne

I desire to proceed at once to Montgomery to Consult you in person on important official business please answer by telegraph
W E Connelly
S A Comr

NF 271 paid
EP

Transcription Notes:
Eufaula, Ala - look at names of cities W E Connelly is the Sub-assistant Commissioner - that is why the initials "S.A. Comr" We aren't transcribing the National Archive stamp.