Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 to Eliakim P. Scammon
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.012 Author/Creator: Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 Place Written: Gualey Mount, West Virginia Type: Manuscript telegram Date: circa December 1862 Pagination: 1 p. ; 15 x 14 cm. Order a Copy
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.
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