- Date: 1861/09/08
- Recipient: Pierpont, Francis H.
- Transcript: Gov F.H. Peirpoint [Francis H. Pierpont] Wheeling Sept 8 1861. By Telegraph from Big Birch River 8 1861. If you have authority to organize an artillery regiment I would like to have Loomis Daums & the rich Mountain & another to be organized the guns now ready into a regiment it will greatly increase the efficiency of this arm of the service - if you have such authority to give a colonels commission to O Loomis & to Maj Bidwell a captaincy of the six 6 brass pieces at Cheat Mountain if you can please do this for Virginia WS Rosecrans Brig Genl USA 77D236paid
- Sender: Rosecrans, William Starke
- Identifier: ptp_0294
- Sender Location: Big Birch, (West) Virginia
- Recipient Location: Wheeling, (West) Virginia
- Box: 9
- Folder: 15
- Item: 09-216
- Image Filename: ptp_0294.jpg
