circa 1862
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
Autograph letter signed
Title: to Jacob Dolson Cox
Writes to General Cox, the Commander of the District in Charleston, about Lieutenant Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes's scouts. States that they have not returned due to high water. Mentions that they will probably not meet opposition at Princetown, Virginia. No news from Wyoming. In postscript, he writes "I have good information of roads, distances etc, in Green briar & Monroe [Virginia]." Year inferred from military rank.
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