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Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 to Captain G. M. Bascom

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.090 Author/Creator: Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 Place Written: Fayetteville, West Virginia Type: Autograph note signed Date: circa spring 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 4 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Colonel Scammon of the 23rd Ohio writes to Bascom, the Assistant Adjutant General in Charleston, West Virginia to inform of a prisoner in Columbus. States that he referred his care to General Jacob Dolson Cox, commander of the division. Only dated the 3rd, year inferred from Scammon's rank as Colonel.

Bascom, G. M., fl. 1862
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

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