- Date: 1861/10/31
- Recipient: Pierpont, Francis Harrison
- Transcript: Gov F.H. Peirpoint [Francis H. Pierpont] Wheeling Oct 31 1861. By Telegraph from New Creek Va 31 1861. Your kind letter received this evening on my return from Cumberland. I thank you for your Solicitude for my welfare and am exceedingly gratified to know that that my friends are feeling so much interest in my success I am doing all I can to procure reinforcements but I don not intend to be driven back even if I do not get them. Armstrong was not captured he fled to the mountains. I return to Romney tomorrow morning. BF Kelley Brig Genl 77Rn241Paid
- Sender: Kelley, Benjamin F.
- Identifier: ptp_0451
- Sender Location: New Creek, (West) Virginia
- Recipient Location: Wheeling, (West) Virginia
- Box: 9
- Folder: 23
- Item: 09-344
- Image Filename: ptp_0451.jpg
