Virginia, Barbour Co.
I, Nathan H. Taft, Adjutant of the
139th. Regiment, Virginia Malitia
of the line, do hereby certify, that pur
suant to the order of H. I. Samuels,
Adjutant General of Virginia, I
superintended an election of a Captain,
one first and one second Leiutenant[sic]
of one of the Companies of that Regi=
ment, when the votes of a;; the men
here present being given viva voce,
a majority was found to be in favor
of Bartholamew Charles M. Groves for
Captain, Bartholamew Rosenberger
For first, and Augustine I, Steerman, for
Second Leiutenant[sic], who will therby duly
elected Captain and Leiutenants[sic] of said
comssing[sic] as aforesaid, to fill vacancies
created by the failure of the late incumbents
to take the oaths prescribed by law; that
a majority of persons present voted,
and that election was fairly and
justly conducted.
Given under my hand
this 18th day of August, 1862.
Nathan H. Taft,
Adjt. 139th.
Transcription by James Bailes, undergraduate student enrolled in Dr. Billy Joe Peyton's Fall 2010 "Introduction to Public History" at West Virginia State University