2 April 1863
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
Autograph endorsement signed
Title: [Scammon endorsement on a telegram to James L. Botsford]
Telegram from Toland to Botsford, Captain and Assistant Adjutant General in the 23rd Ohio regiment. Informs that the cavalry out scouting near Packs Ferry returned and reports no Confederate troops there. With autograph endorsement signed in initials by Brigadier General Eliakim P. Scammon stating the information was sent to General Jacob Dolson Cox the same day. Toland signs as Colonel Commanding Brigade. On stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph. Toland was a Colonel in the 34th Ohio Infantry. He was killed in action July 15 1863 at Witheville, Virginia, just over three months after…
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