Greensborough (NC) Patriot

January 22, 1863

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A Modest Message

The Washington Star says that the following telegraphic dispatch was lately received at the Yankee War Department:

BURKE�S STATION. Dec. 20�3 p.m.

Quartermaster-General Meigs, Washington:

����������� In future you will please furnish better mules.�Those you have furnished recently are very inferior.

J.E.B. STUART; Maj. Gen. C.S.A.

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