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Wheeler, Joseph, 1836-1906 to Daniel H. Hill

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08972 Author/Creator: Wheeler, Joseph, 1836-1906 Place Written: Lawtonville, South Carolina Type: Letter signed Date: January 21, 1865 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 22 cm, Width: 18 cm Order a Copy

Reports from his scouts on the enemy's movements during Sherman's Carolina Campaign. Reports enemy's movement should be difficult because the "country was overflowed from the river, & the swamps so full as to be of very difficult passage." Less than two weeks later the Confederates at Lawtonville would be defeated in the Battle of Rivers' Bridge.

Hill, Daniel H., 1821-1889
Wheeler, Joseph, 1836-1906

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