Letters to Lieutenant M. I. Benham

James A. Garfield to Lieutenant M. I. Benham, December 26, 1861

From James A. Garfield

To Lieutenant M. I. Benham

December 26, 1861

HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH BRIGADE, Georges Creek, December 26, 1861. I arrived here last night with 900 men. Twenty-five hundred rebels are at Paintsville, 18 miles distant, with four guns. They are…

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