Scammon, Eliakim Parker (1816-1894) [Scammon endorsement on a manuscript document containing Board of Survey results]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.158.02 Author/Creator: Scammon, Eliakim Parker (1816-1894) Place Written: West Virginia Type: Autograph endorsement signed Date: 21 July 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 25 x 19 cm. Order a Copy
Copy. Gives the results of the survey board composed of Lieutenants from the 12th Ohio volunteer infantry, John Lewis, James W. Ross, and Hiram McKay. States that Assistant Quarter Master Lieutenant Jonathan C. Wallace received badly damaged and unusable sugar and hard bread from Lieutenant A.C. Fiske. Signed true copy by Robert P. Kennedy, Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant General. Written from Headquarters of the 12th Ohio regiment at Flat Top Mountain. With autograph endorsement signed on verso by Colonel Eliakim P. Scammon approving the report.
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