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- IDNO:
- 000800
- Title:
- Civil War Recruiting Broadside
- Date:
- 1861/07/29
- Description:
- Civil War ad reading: 1,010 Brave Men Wanted! I am authorized by Governor Pierpont to raide a Reigment of men to consist of TEN COMPANIES of 101 men each, including officers. When two companies are formed they will be mustered into service and a camp will be established at or near Morgantown, where they will be armed, equipped and drilled until the Regiment is full and ordered into service. July 29, 1861 James Evans.
- IDNO:
- 000835
- Title:
- Governor Pierpont's Store Room at Wheeling, West Virginia, Containing Stores for the Virginia Regiments
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Sketched by E. M. Bott.
- IDNO:
- 039186
- Title:
- Virginia Governor Francis H. Pierpont and Illinois Troops, Wheeling, Va. (W. Va.)
- Date:
- 1861/08/12
- Description:
- A wood craving illustration published in "The New York Illustrated News", with the caption: "Governor Pierrpont (sic) in front of the Custom-House, Wheeling, Virginia., welcoming the Illinois troops to the soil of Virginia." Pierpont was the governor of the Restored Government of Virginia, loyal to the Union during the Civil War.