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Received at Montgomery 17 1864
By telegraph from Mobile 16 via Mosy To Col G.W. Brent
Column has been at Big Escambia all day with the dismounted Regiments of Clantons Brigade McCollugh reports Enemy at East Pascagoula three thousand of infantry landed yesterday the Cavalry that came from Baton Rouge Embarked at West Pensacola and have come into Mobile
Citation: Dabney Herndon Maury (1822-1900), telegram to George William Brent. Mobile, Ala.; 17 December 1864. In The telegraphic history of the Civil War, 1861-1865. AMs 434/16