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Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 to Jacob D. Cox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.017 Author/Creator: Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894 Place Written: Fayetteville, West Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 20 March 1862 Pagination: 1 p. ; 17.5 x 19.5 cm. Order a Copy

Writes to Brigadier General Cox in Charleston, [West] Virginia. Reports on Lieutentant Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes's scouting information about the movements of the Confederates. ""Lt. Col. Hays has information from Newburn ... Cavy 600 or 700 hundred ... at Princeton. Two Regts of Infy at or near there ... Heath [Henry Heth] & Marshall [Humphrey Marshall] in command of Rebels and S.W.V.a There is, doubtless, a gathering of the whole about the mouth of Blue Stone [River]." Year inferred from Scammon rank as Colonel. Heth was a Confederate Major General noted mostly for his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. Marshall, a Confederate Brigadier General, had his most outstanding success in a skirmish at Princeton, West Virginia [as referenced in this letter.]

Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
Cox, Jacob Dolson, 1828-1900

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