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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. : Height: 15 cm, Width: 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.

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

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