- Date: 1861/08/12
- Recipient: Pierpont, Francis H.
- Transcript: Gov Peirpoint [Francis H. Pierpont] Wheeling Aug 12th 1861. By Telegraph from Clarksburg 12 1861. Two 2 Virginia companies in Kanawha serve at Mason City & Point Pleasant & one at Grafton will make a regiment. Have any field officers yet been appointed for them If not I suggest a consultation with Maj Oakes RCM Lovell Mason City [page 2] I want to embody these troops WS Rosecrans Brig Genl USA 45 D 141pd
- Sender: Rosecrans, William Starke
- Identifier: ptp_0156
- Sender Location: Clarksburg, (West) Virginia
- Recipient Location: Wheeling, (West) Virginia
- Box: 9
- Folder: 07
- Item: 09-105b
- Image Filename: ptp_0156.jpg