The absence of official news from Pittsburg is in consequence of the want of telegraphic communication, the wires having been cut at several points in Tennessee by persons in the employ of the rebels. The Secretary of War has ordered that any one caught in this act of barbarism shall be shot on the spot. A man detected in cutting the wires in Virginia, was so served but a few days ago.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p. 1
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