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- GLC#
- GLC02414.106-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- November 1861
- Author/Creator
- Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
- Title
- [Scammon endorsement on a manuscript document by Mrs. Abbot regarding property of Isaac H. Abbott destroyed by the federal troops]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 23.1 cm, Width: 18.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Includes horses taken, a hog killed, a burned building, and all sorts of household goods and supplies destroyed or taken, reportedly by the 3rd provisional brigade. With signed autograph endorsement of Colonel Eliakim P. Scammon stating that Abbott left the property on 5 November 1861 and that it was destroyed by Buchanan (possibly Robert Christie, later a Union General) and his brigades. Also declares, "The Building burnt, not at the time Chgd., but about the 1st Dec. and not by our troops either purposely or accidentally."
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