A&M 3780Clement Smith, Civil War Letter to General Scammon, 1863 A&M 3780Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia and Regional History Center

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-08-30 07:30:38 -0400.EnglishDescribing Archives: A Content Standard West Virginia and Regional History Center Clement Smith, Civil War Letter to General Scammon Smith, Clement A&M 3780 Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key /repositories/2/resources/2230 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 2 items (4 pages in 1 folder) 1863 Letter by Clement Smith of Peytona, Boone County, West Virginia, a civilian, to Eliakim P. Scammon, Union General, dated 29 October 1863. Smith requests that General Scammon endorse his claim for several boats taken by Union troops in 1862. Smith writes about General William S. Rosecrans and the negative opinions of him held by the public and the press after the Battle of Chickamauga. Smith also observes that Scammon has been accused of secessionist sympathies on account of building plank roads in Charleston. Scammon served in the Kanawha County region of western Virginia between October 1861 and February 1864. Also includes a slip of paper with "W.S. Rosecrans" and other text written upon it. West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/ English Conditions Governing Access

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 Boone County (W. Va.) Peytona (W. Va.) Civil War -- Kanawha County, (W. Va.) Civil War -- letters Civil War - West Virginia. Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Kanawha County - Civil War. West Virginia - Civil War. Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898 Scammon, Eliakim P. Smith, Clement