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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   J. H. Wade, Pres't.


5 Dated Savannah x 1867
Received at 
To Col C C Sibley

The following dispatch just received.

War Department Washington D.C. Mch 4th 1867.  
To Co C C Sibley
See Governor Monday agree together & report number whites & blacks separately greatly needing food.  Answer by Telegraph.

Signed O.O. Howard Maj. Genl & Com

J.R. Lewis
Bvt Brig Genl &c

47 WMC 458 collect