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Dec 23 1864
By telegraph from Mobile 23 to Col Brent
I need at once three thousand blankets three thousand Jackets three thousand socks two thousand pants twenty five hundred shoes four thousand shirts. Please answer when I can receive any or all.
D. H. Maury
Maj. Genl Cmdg
Citation: Dabney Herndon Maury, telegram to George W. Brent. Mobile, 23 December 1864. AMs 434/16