Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
South-Western Telegraph Company Confederate telegram, one lined page, 5.5 x 8.5, June 3, 1862. “By Telegraph from Fort Pillow, [Tennessee], To Danl. Ruggles, Brig. Genl. Comdg. Grenanda, [Mississippi].” Listed are the conditions that were set worth by the telegraph company. The notice ends with the printed conditions, “All messages will hereafter be received by this Company for transmission subject to the above conditions. N. Green, Pres't, Louisville, Ky.,” and written below in an unknown hand “Am ordered to Grenada to take command, organize, fortify &c. My troops have all left. Am remaining behind to cover their retreat. My cavalry have not yet arrived from above. Enemy captured four men this morning. Fear they understand my situation,” signed at the conclusion in another hand on the behalf of Villepigue, “Jno. B. Villepigue, Brig. Genl. Comdg.” Docketing on the reverse. A central vertical fold, light show-through from docketing on the reverse, and light rippling at the corners from mounting remnants on the reverse, otherwise fine condition.
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