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The following were among the last telegrams ever sent by President Davis or the Secretary of War. We have the originals, written in pencil and in the autographs of these distinguished leaders, and shall preserve them in our archives as memorials of those last sad days which closed our grand struggle for independence. Neither of these telegrams have ever been published in any form, so far as we know: