- Date: 1862/08/18
- Recipient: Pierpont, Francis H.
- Transcript: Gov Peirpoint [Francis H. Pierpont] Wheeling Aug 18 1862. By Telegraph from Mannington 18 1862. Send arms and ammunition for this company on train tonight there is a general break of all the secessionists in this county we have taken six (6) prisoners this morning that revealed the whole secret they say these will be five hundred (500) of them they travel by[crossed out] at night [page 2] and lay by in day time Joseph Hough Depty M 55 M 120pd
- Sender: Hough, Joseph
- Identifier: ptp_0716
- Sender Location: Mannington, (West) Virginia
- Recipient Location: Wheeling, (West) Virginia
- Box: 9
- Folder: 38
- Item: 09-570
- Image Filename: ptp_0716.jpg
