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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.139 Author/Creator: Place Written: Packs Ferry, West Virginia Type: Manuscript letter Date: 6 August 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 16.5 cm, Width: 19.3 cm Order a Copy

Author's name is illegible but signs as Major Commanding. Informs that the companies will be sent as directed, the ferry boat was destroyed and that the men are back in their quarters. Reports on shots being fired at their camp but that no one was killed. States that he has no more paper and asks if the Colonel will send this on to Colonel Eliakim P. Scammon of the 23rd Ohio. Year inferred from Scammon's rank.

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

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