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Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 [Scammon endorsement on a telegram to James L. Botsford]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.064 Author/Creator: Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 Place Written: Fayette County, West Virginia Type: Autograph endorsement signed Date: 1 April 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 22 cm, Width: 13.2 cm Order a Copy

Telegram from Toland to Botsford, Captain and Assistant Adjutant General in the 23rd Ohio regiment. Reports on the results of scouting expeditions in West Virginia. States that the infantry scouts returned from Sewell Mountain and reported that the Confederate 22nd regiment has moved to Frankford, Greensboro County and that another regiment is at Lewisburg. Informs that he sent cavalry to Packs Ferry because of rumors that there were Confederates there. With autograph note by Brigadier General Eliakim P. Scammon stating this was reported to General Jacob Dolson Cox the same day. Toland signs as Colonel Commanding Brigade. On stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph.

Toland, John T., fl. 1863-1864
Botsford, James Lawrence, 1834-1898
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

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