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"He states the movement will be made against Summerville or the Rail Road or both & that an attack will surely be made at Fayette at all hazard"

GLC02414.320

to Eliakim P Scammon

"I have Just Recd information . . . that there were near a hundred guerrillas at and near Clay CH this morning . . ." Dated Mch 17 186.

GLC02414.321

to James L. Botsford

Dated Mch 10 186. Written in Camp Piatt

GLC02414.322

to James L. Botsford

Dated Feb 5 186.

GLC02414.326

to Eliakim P. Scammon

". . . a report that Imboden is coming to attack our forces in the valley some think it comes from secession sources probably on account of roads being blackaded in the upper part of the valley"

GLC02414.334

to James L. Botsford

"Lt [Ong?] & half of Capt Milards Co has been captured . . . the Reb force was reported to be such that our Calvary could not retard them at all. They pursued us twelve (12) miles . . ." Dated May 12 186.

GLC02414.335

to James L. Botsford

Dated July 14 186.

GLC02414.349

to Eliakim P. Scammon

"Capt Harrison at Sutton Reports three or four hundred (400) of Jacksons men having passed through Braxton Co be on the alert your cavalry leaves today"

GLC02414.352

to Eliakim P. Scammon

GLC02414.367

to Eliakim P. Scammon

GLC02414.369

to Eliakim P. Scammon

GLC02414.370

to Eliakim P. Scammon

"I have participated in the following engagements, viz Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Weldon R. R....my desire is...to remain service if found Capable...."

GLC02414.372

to Eliakim P. Scammon

GLC02414.381

to Eliakim P. Scammon

"…the enemy in your direct front must be disposed of before it would be safe to make a flank movement towards Wytheville…"

GLC02414.258

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Dated Mch 16 186 Written in Camp Piatt

GLC02414.293

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Groce, Captain commanding post at Camp Green Meadows, West Virginia writes to Colonel Scammon, commander of the 1st Ohio brigade to say that there is no news at the post today.

GLC02414.157

to Martin P. Avery

Marked copy. Captain Simmonds [possibly Seth J. Simmonds, captain in the Ohio 23rd Light Artillery] commanding the post at Gauley, West Virginia writes to Captain Avery, the Acting Assistant Adjutant General in the 23rd Ohio, about a scouting...

GLC02414.166

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Handwritten telegram to Brigadier General Scammon from Botsford, Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of the 23rd Ohio Infantry. States that he will attend to Scammon's recent telegram. The Cavalry have returned. He cannot get information about...

GLC02414.191

to James L. Botsford [incomplete]

Telegram to Captain and Assistant Adjutant General Botsford of the 23rd Ohio Infantry. Author unknown. Possibly a second page missing. Reports that he is fairly sure the 22nd, a Confederate regiment, will attack about 60 miles east. Does not...

GLC02414.218

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Moving Department HQ to Cumberland

GLC02414.236

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Dated March 13, no year.

GLC02414.265

to James L. Botsford

"…the nearest enemy to me is Dunn at Frankfort but I know I cannot get to him for water & I know he cannot get to me…" With [autograph signed note?] reply by Scammon on verso: "You may return to Piatt if you are satisfied that there is no immediate...

GLC02414.268

to Eliakim P. Scammon

"…I know there is no enemy on my right worth marching for sixty miles for the last twenty (20) of that we will be bushwhacked then for the next thirty (3) it will be hot…." Dated Apl 1860

GLC02414.282

to James L. Botsford

"My scouts have returned they were at Peytona no enemy that they could hear of I destroyed & broke up all the ferry boats for five miles each way . . . . " Dated Mch 29 186 Written in Camp Piatt

GLC02414.292

to Eliakim P. Scammon

dated July 14 186

GLC02414.299