- Date: 1862/09/12
- Recipient: Pierpont, Francis H.
- Transcript: Gov Peirpoint [Francis H. Pierpont] Wheeling Sept 12 1862. By Telegraph from Cumberland 12 1862. Call out & arm all the militia you can raise there is no doubt but the rebel's are determined to recapture Western Virginia I have only one regiment here the eighty 84 fourth Ohio & their time has expired & they say they will leave tomorrow at nine 9 oclock I have the second 2nd Maryland and a raw New York [page 2] Regt the second 2nd Maryland I will be obliged to order here tomorrow to supply the place of the eighty fourth 84th see important dispatch to Mr. Ford BF Kelley Brig Genl 82z328pd
- Sender: Kelley, Benjamin Franklin
- Identifier: ptp_0771
- Sender Location: Cumberland, Maryland
- Recipient Location: Wheeling, (West) Virginia
- Box: 9
- Folder: 41
- Item: 09-624
- Image Filename: ptp_0771.jpg
