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Language
English
Abstract
Selected correspondence from the Salmon P. Chase and Orlando M. Poe papers include two letters from John S. Carlile of Clarksburg
requesting the removal of General William S. Rosecrans and the western Virginia theater; a letter from Governor Francis H.
Pierpont concerning a loan of $200,000 for the Reorganized Government of Virginia; a letter from K.V. Whaley concerning the
effectiveness of Northern arms shipped to the Ceredo area; and letters from Poe, an aide to McClellan, to his wife pertaining
to the fighting in the Tygarts Valley and at Rich Mountain.
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia Statehood Papers, A&M 1435, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.