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- GLC#
- GLC02414.193-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 2, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Paxton, J.C., fl. 1863
- Title
- to James M. Botsford
- Place Written
- Belle, West Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 21.5 cm, Width: 14 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Handwritten telegram to Botsford, Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of the 23rd Ohio Infantry from Colonel Paxton. Asks what to do with eight prisoners and some witnesses he has at the camp. Informs that 21 of Godfrey's loyal men came in almost naked and asks if he can supply them with clothing. Has heard that some Confederates are about 45 miles away and states that the refugees feel they can be captured. With pencil endorsement on verso telling Paxton to two Captains about the prisoners. Possibly the hand of Brigadier General Eliakim P. Scammon. On stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph. Written in Camp Piatt.
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