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

GLC02414.017

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GLC#
GLC02414.017-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
March 20, 1862
Author/Creator
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
Title
to Jacob D. Cox
Place Written
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 17.5 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

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.]

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