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Received at Dec 2 1864
By telegraph from Mobile 2 To Col G W Brent
Enemy reported in Franklinton La yesterday moving east. fewer ships in lower Bay than usual. Hartford gone – salute of thirteen guns fired yesterday Probably for granger.
D H Maury
Maj Genl Comd.
26.520
Citation: Dabney Herndon Maury (1822-1900), telegram to George William Brent. Mobile, Ala.; 2 December 1864. In The telegraphic history of the Civil War, 1861-1865. AMs 434/16