(Western Union Telegraph)
To: Gov. Boreman
Wheeling May 5 1864
From: Parkersburg 5 1864
Please authorize Commissary here to issue to Donaldsons Ellisons and my Companies for May answer at once___
H. Chapman
Capt.
17.q.brfd(?)
Transcription by Jeffrie Carroll, undergraduate student enrolled in Dr. Billy Joe Peyton's Fall 2010 "Introduction to Public History" at West Virginia State University