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Received Dec 7 1864
By telegraph from Mobile 7 To Col G W Brent
Repeated rumors & reports of preparations at Pensacola to attack Mobile only one heavy ship in lower bay transports unusually active Raiders crossed Pearl River moved on morning of Sixth towards Mobile & Ohio Railroad General Gardner will send some troops to Defend Road
Gov Clarke will have militia sent for Same purpose does General Beauregard desire the Construction of one hundred positions to continue the work absorbs all my mechanics. The present condition army of Tennessee may render them necessary.
D H Maury
Maj Genl
Comdg
H M 620
Citation: Dabney Herndon Maury (1822-1900), telegram to George William Brent. Mobile, Ala.; 7 December 1864. In The telegraphic history of the Civil War, 1861-1865. AMs 434/16