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Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Intercepted Dispatch

The Chicago Journal, on the authority of its Cairo Correspondent, pronounces the dispatch telegraphed over the country as having been on its way to Jeff. Davis From Beauregard, a hoax, and says that the following are the dispatches he did intercept.:

“TO JEFF. DAVIS:– You must send me reinforcements, or I shall not be able to hold out against the enemy. BEAUREGARD.”

“TO GEN. BEAUREGARD:– I cannot send you reinforcements, for I have none to spare. I want reinforcements myself. DAVIS.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 24, 1862, p. 1

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