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Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 to Rutherford B. Hayes

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.045 Author/Creator: Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 Place Written: Fayetteville, West Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: circa 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 16 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Instructs Lieutenant Colonel Hayes of the 23rd Ohio regiment to send out scouts to ascertain "whether the rebels are cutting a road through the timber from Anaconia Court House eastward." States that General [Jacob Dolson] Cox reports that nothing can be done until orders are received from the department. Dated only the 3rd, year inferred from Hayes rank as Lt. Colonel.

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

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