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Unknown to James L. Botsford [incomplete]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.218 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Summerville, West Virginia Type: Manuscript telegram Date: 18 April 1863 Pagination: 1 p. ; 22 x 13.5 cm. Order a Copy

Telegram to Captain and Assistant Adjutant General Botsford of the 23rd Ohio Infantry. Author unknown. Possibly a second page missing. Reports that he is fairly sure the 22nd, a Confederate regiment, will attack about 60 miles east. Does not think there are enemy troops any closer than Lewisburg, West Virginia. On stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph.

Botsford, James Lawrence, 1834-1898

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