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- GLC#
- GLC02414.113-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 5 December 1863
- Author/Creator
- White, Carr Bailey, 1823-1871
- Title
- to Eliakim P. Scammon
- Place Written
- Fayette, West Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 24.7 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Possibly a copy in General Scammon's hand of a decoded cypher telegram to Scammon from Colonel Carr Bailey White of the 12th Ohio Infantry. Reports on Lieutenant Blazer's letter of 4 December where he informed that he infiltrated the Confederate lines near Lewisburg, West Virginia but was discovered. They were then attacked by Confederate guerillas and he states the number wounded, killed or taken prisoner. Gives the location of troops in the area.
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