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party who have seized the P. office at Point
Pleasant. Yet the country around the mouth
of the Kana & Pocotalino rivers is full of
traitors who are arming & desperate, and can
be readily reinforced from Silartis falls above
& Galiapolis below.-I shall endeavor to occu-
-py all the passes into the valley and scout
and scour outwards with all my available
forces, until the main body of invaders comes.
    Having thus far proceeded in my command
and organized and put into the field,
nearly complete and actually in service,
a full regiment of my Legion. I now ask
that the field officers may be commis-
sioned and ordered to report to me at
once at Gauley Bridge, to wit: – Col. J.
Lucius Davis, Lt. Col. Jno. H. Richardson
and Major H.W. Fry, Jr. now in Richmond.
They will hand this report to you and
their services are indispensable to me
now. I beg that this may be attended
to immediately. -The 2nd regt. will be organ-
ized very soon, when I will present to
the Prest. other field officers for commis-
sions. The reports of company officers for
commissions will be forwarded as early
as possible from Gauley Bridge.-I beg that
you will urge the President to give these
commissions now [underscored], before the organization
of the Regt. is quite complete, because
the public service absolutely requires
them in command at the posts where
the men are already in service. I ask
this urgently of the President as not only
a personal favor to me, but as an act