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Language
English
Abstract
Approximately twenty letters sent to President Abraham Lincoln from Francis H. Pierpont, the governor of the Reorganized Government
of Virginia, between 1861 and 1864. Topics include the need for muskets in western Virginia in 1861; restoring the government
of Virginia according to the Wheeling Convention after the war; using slaves from Virginia to do manual labor for the Union
army; difficulty recruiting soldiers in western Virginia in 1862; the creation of the state of West Virginia; and Benjamin
Butler and citizens in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1863 and 1864. These letters are on microfilm and were copied by the Library
of Congress.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899), Letters to President Lincoln,
A&M 1034, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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