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Hale, Jane T., fl. 1863 [Scammon endorsement on a telegram to James L. Botsford]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.198 Author/Creator: Hale, Jane T., fl. 1863 Place Written: Gauley, West Virginia Type: Autograph endorsement signed Date: February 3, 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 21.5 cm, Width: 14 cm Order a Copy

Telegram to Botsford, Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of the 23rd Ohio Infantry from a civilian woman with soldiers quartered in her house. She complains that some men from Harrison's company are ruining the house, burning all the coal, and treating her badly. Asks him to talk to General Eliakim P. Scammon and have them removed. With autograph endorsement signed in initials by Scammon stating telegram was answered. On stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph.

Botsford, James Lawrence, 1834-1898
Hale, Jane T., fl. 1863
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

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