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Roberts, Benjamin Stone, 1810-1875 to Eliakim P. Scammon

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.302 Author/Creator: Roberts, Benjamin Stone, 1810-1875 Place Written: s.l. Type: Telegram signed Date: 1861-1864 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 21.5 cm, Width: 13.2 cm Order a Copy

"Did you mean . . . that the twenty second (22nd) Rebel Virginia would strike east from Huntersville that would take them to the Shenandoah" Dated 19 186

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

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