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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.

1. Civil War Recruiting Broadside

Sketched by E. M. Bott.

2. Governor Pierpont's Store Room at Wheeling, West Virginia, Containing Stores for the Virginia Regiments

3. Former Governor Pierpont on the Steps of his Home in Fairmont, Marion County, W. Va.

Pierpont served as the governor of the Loyal Government of Virginia during the Civil War and helped to establish the new state of West Virginia.

4. Francis Harrison Pierpont from Fairmont, W. Va.

5. Governor Francis H. Pierpont

'Portico of Executive Mansion. During the Rebellion this Mansion was occupied, in their respective terms by the Rebel Governors, Letcher and Smith, and is now the residence of Gov. Pierpont, who may be seen seated on the left of the portico, in company with Messrs. W.W. Weng, Treasurer of Virginia, W.D. Massey, P.M. of Alexandria, Va., and Colonel Hart of the Governor's Staff. Courtesy Mrs. J.C. Pryor'

6. Portico of Governor's House, with Portrait of Governor Pierpont

7. Francis H. Pierpont, Loyal Governor of Virginia, 1861-1868

8. Governor Francis H. Pierpont

Elderly Pierpont reading a book.

9. Governor Francis Pierpont

Pierpont served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia (Loyal to the Union) during  and the first years after the Civil War. He is known as the "Father of West Virginia"

10. Francis H. Pierpont of Fairmont, W. Va.

'Original owned by Miss. Louisa Miller, L. B. 243 Blairsville, Pa.; the property of her father Rev. Noble Garcia Miller, D. D. at Allegheny College, 1861; died in Blairsville in 1918.  Miss Miller believes this picture was taken in 1861.'

11. Francis Pierpont

12. Gov. Francis H. Pierpont and the Old House at Fairmont, W. Va.