to James L. Botsford [incomplete]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.218 Author/Creator: Place Written: Summerville, West Virginia Type: Manuscript telegram Date: 18 April 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 22 cm, Width: 13.5 cm Order a Copy
Telegram to Captain and Assistant Adjutant General Botsford of the 23rd Ohio Infantry. Author unknown. Possibly a second page missing. Reports that he is fairly sure the 22nd, a Confederate regiment, will attack about 60 miles east. Does not think there are enemy troops any closer than Lewisburg, West Virginia. On stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph.
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