Microfilm of the correspondence of Francis Harris Pierpont [manuscript], n.d.

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Microfilm of the correspondence of Francis Harris Pierpont [manuscript], n.d.

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Correspondence of Francis Harrison Pierpont, the first governor of West Virginia. This is negative microfilm of the correspondence in the Henry E. Huntington Library.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899

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Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-99), Union leader in Virginia during the Civil War, head of the government set up by the Wheeling Convention of June, 1861, and governor of "restored" Virginia (i.e., that part of the state under federal control but not incorporated in West Virginia). After the war he remained as governor until 1868. In 1881, he changed his last name from Peirpoint to Pierpont. From the description of Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont, 1861-1883 (bulk 1861-1868). (Hu...