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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.   WM. ORTON, Pres't.
Dated    186
Received at  2
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but is in a critical condition Lieut F sent for assistance and Lieut Rogers joined him with remainder of his command Lieut Rogers reports the excitement at one time great but subsiding and & several armed bands of negroes who had collected as disbanding he does not apprehend any further difficulty at present.
J H Remington
159 - D16 Gov't

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