George B. McClellan to Beriah Magoffin

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Accession Number

KYR-0001-019-0083

Document Genre

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG5-154

Place of Creation

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio

Date of Creation

11 June 1861

Dates Mentioned

1861-06-11

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

No. 1.] TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON WHICH MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED BY THIS COMPANY FOR TRANSMISSION.

The public are notified that, in order to guard against mistakes in the transmission of messages, every message of importance ought to be repeated, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received, to the station from which it is originally sent. Half the usual price for transmission will be charged for repeating the message; and while this Comapny will, as heretofore, use every precaution to ensure correctness, it will not be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of repeated messages, beyond an amount exceeding five hundred times the amount paid for sending the message; nor will it be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission of unrepeated messages from whatever cause they may arise, nor for delays arising in interruptions in the working of its Telegraphs, nor for any mistake or omission of any other Company, over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination. All messages will hereafter be received by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.

A. STAGER, Gen. Sup't, Cleveland, O.

I. R. ELWOOD, Sec'y, Rochester, N. Y.

FrankfortJune 11 185961.
To Gov. B Magoffin
By Telegraph from CincinnatiJune 11 185961.

I have rec^d information that Tennessee Troops are under orders to occupy Island Number one Six miles below Cairo in accordance with my understanding with Genl Buckner I call upon you to prevent this Step, Do you regard the Islands on ^(the)^ Mississippi River above the Tennesse line as within your Jurisdiction & if so what ones —

Respectfully
G. B. McClelan
Adj Genl U. S. A

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