Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 to Jacob Dolson Cox

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GLC#
GLC02414.032-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
circa 1862
Author/Creator
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
Title
to Jacob Dolson Cox
Place Written
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Writes to General Cox, the Commander of the District in Charleston, about Lieutenant Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes's scouts. States that they have not returned due to high water. Mentions that they will probably not meet opposition at Princetown, Virginia. No news from Wyoming. In postscript, he writes "I have good information of roads, distances etc, in Green briar & Monroe [Virginia]." Year inferred from military rank.

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