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- GLC#
- GLC02414.096-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1 April 1862
- Author/Creator
- Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
- Title
- to Jacob Dolson Cox
- Place Written
- Fayetteville, West Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 15 cm, Width: 19.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Colonel Scammon of the 23rd Ohio writes to General Cox commanding the division in Charleston, West Virginia to report on scouting activities. Gives locations of Confederate troops around Lewisburg, West Virginia. States, "Rebs. are pressing Militia into services...Enemy intend to fire & face back to destroy bridge over Green Brier Rd." Year inferred from Scammon's rank as Colonel.
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