I want you to Send me
the militia law of W.Va
and I will do as mu mutch[sic]
for you Som[sic] tim[sic] we have not
got it Concerning the
Reorganizing my Rigiment[sic]
I think you had better
Send Commiss[sic] to the old
officers Except the Colonel
I think they will Except
there Commissions or the
most of them will I
understand that the Company
have to be Consolidated in
Compnies[sic] of 98 men
June 6th 1864
Major Benjamin Simon
of 169th Regt Virginia
Militia
to gov A. J. Boarman[sic]
of. w. Va
Transcription by James Bailes, undergraduate student enrolled in Dr. Billy Joe Peyton's Fall 2010 "Introduction to Public History" at West Virginia State University