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Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 [Scammon endorsement on a manuscript document by Mrs. Abbot regarding property of Isaac H. Abbott destroyed by the federal troops]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.106 Author/Creator: Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph endorsement signed Date: November 1861 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 23.1 cm, Width: 18.3 cm Order a Copy

Includes horses taken, a hog killed, a burned building, and all sorts of household goods and supplies destroyed or taken, reportedly by the 3rd provisional brigade. With signed autograph endorsement of Colonel Eliakim P. Scammon stating that Abbott left the property on 5 November 1861 and that it was destroyed by Buchanan (possibly Robert Christie, later a Union General) and his brigades. Also declares, "The Building burnt, not at the time Chgd., but about the 1st Dec. and not by our troops either purposely or accidentally."

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

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