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White, Carr Bailey, 1823-1871 to unknown

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.087 Author/Creator: White, Carr Bailey, 1823-1871 Place Written: Fayetteville, West Virginia Type: Manuscript telegram Date: 14 September 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 10.7 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy

Possibly a telegram to General Eliakim P. Scammon. Colonel White reports that some deserters have come in and that there is a small battalion at Princeton, West Virginia. He will send more information as he gets it. White, a Union Brevet Brigadier General, was with the Ohio 12th Infantry.

White, W.B., fl. 1863
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

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