5 July 1863

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Manuscript document

Title: [General orders regarding military strategy after the surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi]

Instructs the 13th, 15th, and 9th Army Corp in the route each should take to reach Clinton in an attempt to capture Confederate forces retreating from Vicksburg. Sherman orders, "All commanders will hold their troops in perfect order for Battle at all times, and on encountering the enemy will engage him at once." Warns against pillage and plunder. "the people of the country should be protected as far as possible against the cruel and wanton acts of irresponsible parties." Docketed on top of first page, "Original Orders - found near Clinton [Miss.] on the 8th of July, 1863" Written from…

GLC02412

27 December 1863

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

Letter signed

Title: to M. S. Worth

General Banks informs Miss Worth of Albany, New York that "The Ladies of the North were gratefully and enthusiastically remembered by the soldiers in the Hospitals of this Department on Christmas Day ... The sweetest earthly solace that a stricken soldier can receive is to know that the women of his Country appreciate his sacrifices and are willing to give their hours of leisure and luxury to his care and comfort ... "

GLC02413

1862-1866

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Eliakim P. Scammon, 23rd regiment, Ohio, infantry] [decimalized]

Documents pertaining to the Civil War in West Virginia consisting of letters, telegrams, documents, drafts, notes, etc. Scammon saw duty in West Virginia (and briefly captured Feb. 1864-Aug. 1864) and, after the war, was assigned duty in South Carolina and Florida on the Military Examining Board (deciding which officers remained in the army). The collection includes: three ALSs of future President Rutherford B. Hayes, and correspondence with him, Gettysburg-related material (Scammon was ordered to attack Lee's retreating forces), correspondence to and from Scammon, telegrams while in…

GLC02414

5 July 1863

White, Julius, 1816-1890

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Reports cavalry attacks on Confederates after Gettysburg.

GLC02414.001

5 July 1863

David, T. B. A., fl. 1862-1863

Autograph document signed

Title: Telegraph to Eliakim P. Scammon

Written by the Assistant Superintendent of Military Telegraphs to Union Brigadier General Scammon. Informs Scammon that the news from Gettysburg is that General Robert E. Lee has sent in the flag of truce. "Lee sent in Flag of Truce, asking cessation hostilities to enable him bury his dead. [General George] Meade replied only conditions was unconditional surrender." States that Meade captured 15,000 prisoners and 118 guns.

GLC02414.002

30 July 1864

Smith, Austin, fl. 1864

Manuscript

Title: [Copy of report to William P. Fessenden about the first Federal income tax Florida]

Reports the results of his inquiry into the "practices & procedures & acts of the Tax Commissioners of the Insurrectionary Districts..." Informs that the Florida Direct Tax Commissioners were appointed in October 1862, and that since then, they have made two land sales, at Fernandina and St. Augustine, both of which have been alleged to be illegal. He states that if this is the case, "the Tax Commission has so far proved an entire failure...the salaries of the Commissioners & other expenses have more than consumed the amount of money received." Blames Commissioner S. D.…

GLC02414.003

11 July 1862

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Scammon endorsement on an autograph letter signed from John H. Groce]

Writes to Scammon, Colonel commanding the 1st Prov. Brigade in Camp Jones, West Virginia, about Confederate informers. Informs Scammon of "a suspicious looking man skulking along the road" whom they brought with them into camp but escaped on route. Groce sent men in pursuit. He learned today that a group of Bushwhackers is forming six miles from here and that they have "a route some where between here and Flat Top by which information is carried backward and forward to the enemy, women being the messengers." On verso is a lengthy autograph endorsement signed by Scammon reacting to this…

GLC02414.004

15 December 1862

Cox, Jacob D., 1828-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Union Major General Cox writes to Brigadier General Scammon commanding the 2nd Kanawha Division in Fayette County, West Virginia. Discusses a disagreement about the detailing of medical officers to batteries.

GLC02414.005

15 December 1862

Ewing, Hugh B., 1826-1905

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Ewing writes to Scammon, Brigadier General commanding the 2nd Division, Kanawha in Fayette, Virginia, to state that he saw Scammon's family in Cincinnati, Ohio. Encloses a letter from them (not present). Says he urged Mrs. Scammon to come with them but she declined. Written shortly before Scammon was promoted to Brigadier General in December 1862, and before Ewing was promoted to Brigadier General in November 1862. Ewing, foster brother William Tecumseh Sherman, became his most trusted subordinate. He serve at South Mountain, Antietam, in the Second Vicksburg campaign and Missionary Ridge.…

GLC02414.006

18 December 1862

Ewing, Hugh B., 1826-1905

Letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Writes to Brigadier General Scammon, commanding 2nd Division Kanawha. Introduces an informant named Henry McGlaughlin, a citizen of Virginia and a former scout for the 30th Regiment O.V.I. [Ohio Volunteer Infantry?]. There is an autograph endorsement on the verso, possibly by Scammon but unsigned, noting the location of Confederate Generals John B. Floyd and Humphrey Marshall.

GLC02414.007

31 December 1862

Bascom, G. M., fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Writes to Brigadier General Scammon commanding Kanawha division in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Transmits the private papers of General Beckley [possibly Alfred Beckley]. By command of Major General Jacob Dolson Cox. Bascom signs as Major and Assistant Adjutant General.

GLC02414.008

13 January 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Discusses the deployment of three companies to Gauley Mount, West Virginia. Gives his ideas on what the troops should do and comments, "I mention this because I doubt the safety and the utility of posting a small force at Gauley Mountain." Mentions that a Colonel Hatfield has claimed an older commission than Hayes and he says this is not true. "No new Colonel must be put over me without a full Consideration of sundry matters..." Written at Camp Reynolds

GLC02414.009

25 March 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Encloses a dispatch from Captain Simmonds (not present) and calls it "sensational." Hopes Scammon finds it amusing. Mentions General Jacob Dolan Cox and G.M. Bascom, a major and assistant adjutant general. Marked private. Written at Camp White also known as Fort Scammon.

GLC02414.010

1 July 1862

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Hayes writes as Lieutenant Colonel of the 23rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers to Scammon, his superior, as commander of the 1st Brigade. Reports that the water supply is inefficient after an inspection of the springs and wells in the area. The inspecting officer said, "The water has failed."

GLC02414.011

circa December 1862

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Manuscript telegram

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Clerical telegram to General Scammon expressing his ironic sympathies over Scammon's loss of a cook. "We deeply sympathize with you one of our few good cooks is at Col Ewing's Head Quarters - Shall we send for him?" On U. S. Military Telegraph stationary. Month inferred from Scammon's rank as Brigadier General, which he was promoted to October 1862.

GLC02414.012

18 January 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Manuscript letter

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Clerical copy. George W. Edgar, Lieutenant Colonel commanding the outpost in West Virginia writes to Brigadier General Scammon of the 23rd Ohio to report that he is sending a Mrs. Dr. Lucker with a flag of truce to Scammon's lines. She is to pass by order of Major General Jones. With clerical note by Colonel Hayes stating that the lady arrived at the outpost and will leave in the morning.

GLC02414.013

31 January 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Manuscript letter

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Clerical copy. Reports that Lieutenant De Laney returned from a scouting trip of the road near Tazewell and did not learn of any enemy movements.

GLC02414.014

3 February 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Manuscript telegram

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Colonel Hayes replies to General Scammon that he knows nothing of a Mr. Taylor and his reports but he will check into it. Year is inferred as 1863 because of the locations and the correspondents's military rank. Telegram on stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph.

GLC02414.015

3 February 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Manuscript telegram

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Colonel Hayes writes that an escort will be sent as ordered. Telegram on stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph.

GLC02414.016

20 March 1862

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jacob D. Cox

Writes to Brigadier General Cox in Charleston, [West] Virginia. Reports on Lieutentant Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes's scouting information about the movements of the Confederates. ""Lt. Col. Hays has information from Newburn ... Cavy 600 or 700 hundred ... at Princeton. Two Regts of Infy at or near there ... Heath [Henry Heth] & Marshall [Humphrey Marshall] in command of Rebels and S.W.V.a There is, doubtless, a gathering of the whole about the mouth of Blue Stone [River]." Year inferred from Scammon rank as Colonel. Heth was a Confederate Major General noted mostly for his actions at…

GLC02414.017

7 March 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Manuscript letter

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Copy. Writes that he does not know much about a man named John Packhard "but after a rigid cross examination I believe him to be a german deserter who may be trusted ..."

GLC02414.018

9 March 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Manuscript telegram

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Copy marked telegram at top. Reports to Brigadier General Scammon that a Mr. McConihay passed a bundle of family letters to friends over the Confederate line but that this is all he knows about him holding communication with the rebels. Thinks he probably served as postmaster.

GLC02414.019

13 March 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Manuscript telegram

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Telegram to General Scammon confirming receipt of a dispatch and reporting that the line has not been working for two days. Also states that they are fine.

GLC02414.020

13 March 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Manuscript telegram

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Telegram to General Scammon reporting that two companies of the 23rd Ohio are doing guard duty at Gauley bridge. It would take six to eight hours to call them in. On stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph. Year inferred from similar documents from Hayes in this collection and Scammon and Hayes's rank.

GLC02414.021

circa March 1863

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Manuscript telegram

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Undated telegram reporting to General Scammon that a "Prisoner came into our pickets above Tompkins farm." On stationery of the U.S. Military Telegraph. Undated but possibly March 1863 based on similar documents in this collection.

GLC02414.022