Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Pierpont” in article pos=35 of The Daily Dispatch: September 11, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
...tely published, would scarcely have appeared; but he is doubtless the smallest of all the diminutive souls who have taken advantage of the war to make themselves famous.
He is lower than Carlile or Pierpont .
Foster is a native Yankee.
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