- Date: 1861/10/11
- Recipient: Pierpont, Francis H.
- Transcript: FH Peirpoint [Francis H. Pierpont] Governor Wheeling Oct 11 1861. By Telegraph from Wirt CH 1861. I have just seen a dispatch to Capt Hill from Genl Rosecrans ordering him to report his Company at Clarksburg immediately which created considerable uneasiness among us in our present [page 2] threatened condition as it would leave us without protection the most of our Home Guard have volunteered in his Company. the secesh are collecting in considerable bodies around us & threatening an attack upon us. Can the order of Genl Rosecrans be countermanded until Capt Hill place be supplied by other troops yours respy JA Williamson 8492/12pd
- Sender: Williamson, J. A.
- Identifier: ptp_0394
- Sender Location: Elizabeth, (West) Virginia
- Recipient Location: Wheeling, (West) Virginia
- Box: 9
- Folder: 20
- Item: 09-299
- Image Filename: ptp_0394.jpg
