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- GLC#
- GLC02414.310-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1861-1864
- Author/Creator
- Carter, J. D., fl. 1863
- Title
- to Eliakim P. Scammon
- Place Written
- Pt. Pleasant, West Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 21.7 cm, Width: 13.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
"Jenkins was on his farm yesterday . . . some two hundred . . . of his cavalry made a dash into Barboursville last night" [As a colonel in the 8th Va. Cavalry, Alber Gallatin Jenkins wasnoted for his damaging raids on Union forces in West Virginia. He was promoted to brigadier general on August 5, 1862.]
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