- Date: 1862/10/16
- Recipient: Pierpont, Francis H.
- Transcript: Wheeling, Oct. 16 1862. Gov. Peirpoint [Francis H. Pierpont] By telegraph from Washington 16 1862. 5:36 PM Your dispatch of today received I am very sorry to have offended you I appointed the collector as I thought on your written recommendation & the assessor also with your testimony of worthiness although I knew you preferred a different man I will examine tomorrow whether I am mistaken in this. A. Lincoln.
- Sender: Lincoln, Abraham
- Identifier: ptp_0847
- Sender Location: Washington, D.C.
- Recipient Location: Wheeling, (West) Virginia
- Box: 9
- Folder: 01
- Item: 09-010
- Image Filename: ptp_0847.jpg
