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

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.015 Author/Creator: Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 Place Written: Gauley Mount, West Virginia Type: Manuscript telegram Date: February 3, 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 21.5 cm, Width: 14 cm Order a Copy

Colonel Hayes replies to General Scammon that he knows nothing of a Mr. Taylor and his reports but he will check into it. Year is inferred as 1863 because of the locations and the correspondents's military rank. Telegram on stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph.

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

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