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Botsford, James Lawrence, 1834-1898 to Eliakim P. Scammon

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.190 Author/Creator: Botsford, James Lawrence, 1834-1898 Place Written: Fayette, West Virginia Type: Manuscript telegram Date: January 27, 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 21.5 cm, Width: 14 cm Order a Copy

Handwritten telegram to Brigadier General Scammon from Botsford, Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of the 23rd Ohio Infantry. Writes that all is ready to leave and that Colonel Carr Bailey White is with him. On stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph.

Botsford, James Lawrence, 1834-1898
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
White, Carr Bailey, 1823-?

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