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Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 to Eliakim P. Scammon

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.036 Author/Creator: Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 Place Written: Gauley, West Virginia Type: Manuscript telegram Date: January 26, 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 19 cm, Width: 14 cm Order a Copy

Telegram to General Scammon reporting that he received the dispatch about the approach of Confederate General Henry Heth. Writes that a train of 90 wagons is heading out to Summersville with two companies of the 23rd Ohio regiment. Asks if they should return. On stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph. Year inferred from similar documents in the collection.

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
Heth, Henry, 1825-1899

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