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1 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. WILLIAM ORTON, Pres't Dated, Greenville Ala Dec 26 1867 3 oclock AM Received at Montgomery Dec 26 To Maj Gen Swayne Montgomery Dr Mooar reports in person that sixty 60 or more Colored have been collected in an open lot thirteen 13 miles from Garland on charge of receiving stolen gold. All who were at a certain religious meeting men women & children are marched there on foot some already kept a week exposed to starvation & weather — All money gold or paper taken from them. Arrested in this County on Justice warrant from Conecuh. Tried to arrest a female nurse at Hospital Dr Mooar protested & asks instructions. Sam S Gardner [[right margin]] 85 MY 350 collect [[/right margin]]