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Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 to Jacob Dolson Cox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.032 Author/Creator: Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 Place Written: Fayetteville, West Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: circa 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 19.7 cm Order a Copy

Writes to General Cox, the Commander of the District in Charleston, about Lieutenant Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes's scouts. States that they have not returned due to high water. Mentions that they will probably not meet opposition at Princetown, Virginia. No news from Wyoming. In postscript, he writes "I have good information of roads, distances etc, in Green briar & Monroe [Virginia]." Year inferred from military rank.

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
Cox, Jacob Dolson, 1828-1900

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