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Sloan, Alexander A. (b. 1838) to Eliakim P. Scammon

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02414.222 Author/Creator: Sloan, Alexander A. (b. 1838) Place Written: Gauley, West Virginia Type: Manuscript telegram Date: 13 April 1863 Pagination: 1 p. ; 22 x 13.5 cm. Order a Copy

Telegram to Brigadier General Scammon from Sloan, a private in Co. D., 34th Ohio Infantry. Informs him of a young girl caught at Fayette, West Virginia dressed in Zouave clothing. She told a woman at the 91st military hospital that she was spy sent from Princeton, West Virginia and was paid $100 for every trip, this being her fourth. On stationary of the U.S. Military Telegraph.

Sloan, Alexander A., b. 1838
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894

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