July 2, 1861
William E. Gilmore, Colonel, 22nd Regiment, United States Volunteers, Parkersburg, Virginia. To Governor William Dennison. Letter regarding the 22nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) doing guard duty along the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad; stating that they were scattered in squads of from ten to twenty- five along a line of fifty miles, encamped without tents or overcoats, nearly naked with less than one blanket to the man and even those the "flimsy" ones first issued at Camp Jackson, and poorly fed in consequence of the irregularity of trains over the Northwestern Virginia Railroad and the frequent refusal of conductors of such trains as did run to stop at points where men were stationed, that many of the men were sick and discouraged, that there was little complaining among the men and none of the public denunciation of the state authorities which had disgraced other Ohio regiments, that they had generally met their deprivations as a matter of course incident to the sudden change from "profound peace to active war," made a forced march of 84 miles through Wood, Wirt and Roan Counties, and had taken a large number of secessionists prisoner and made them take the oath of allegiance to the United States government and to Governor Pierpont's administration of Virginia, and that the regiment did not need the "coaxing" that others had needed; and requesting the necessary order to reorganize the regiment.
3 pp. [Series 147-1: 22]

July 2, 1861
John Q. Lane, Assistant Quartermaster, Headquarters, Camp Carrington, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that there were reliable reports saying that a large body of rebels was coming down the Kanawha to Point Pleasant and that as a result, Union men and their families had crossed the Ohio River to Gallipolis, and requesting more troops or arms to put into the hands of the citizens.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 18]

July 2, 1861
J.P. Markle, Knoxville, Jefferson County. To H.B. Carrington. Letter stating that there was a mistake in his name on an election return for a cavalry company, and requesting arms.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 52]

July 2, 1861
H. Montgomery, Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio. To Adjutant General, Ohio Volunteer Militia. Letter offering the services of a squad of cavalry, and stating that those enlisted were without means to purchase horses.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 50]

July 2, 1861
Byron H. Robb, 2nd Lieutenant, Geauga Rangers, Parkman, Geauga County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter offering a regiment of mounted cavalry.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 52]

July 2, 1861
S.B. Sturges, Lieutenant Colonel, 1st Regiment, Artillery, Ohio Volunteer Militia, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery (three months' service) had been organized under an old law of the state which resulted in each captain having command of one artillery piece, that this state of affairs was unnecessarily expensive, mortifying to the officers, and unwieldy from the "superfluous" officers, that the regiment had been in camp for over a month without horses or proper ammunition, that he intended to resign unless the companies were filled up as they should be, and that he was unwilling to "play" lieutenant colonel over what was only a lieutenant's command.
3 pp. [Series 147-1: 95]

July 3, 1861
J. Ammen, Colonel, 24th Regiment, Camp Chase, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter requesting that Company H of the 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry be changed for Company H of the 12th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 24]

July 3, 1861
E. Tullis, Captain, Company A, Somerford, Madison County, Ohio. To Adjutant General H.B. Carrington. Letter asking why companies which were regularly organized could not be armed.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 14]

July 3, 1861
James Walker, Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that William Miller of Bellefontaine could raise a company for three years service or the duration of the war if he had assurances that the company would be accepted.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 66]

July 4, 1861
J[acob] Ammen, Colonel, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending promotions.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 87]

July 4, 1861
H.B. Carrington, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that Dr. Forshay could march seventy men with horses, saddles and bridles, and that it would be well to put him into camp.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 57]

July 4, 1861
A.W. Hendry, Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that since Captain Fox and his company of artillery had been ordered to report for duty at Columbus and declined going, he would raise a company and be ready for duty in four days.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 49]

July 4, 1861
John H. Jordan, Drill Master, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Militia, Fairmount, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General. Letter requesting the date from which the pay of the regiment commenced.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 19]

July 4, 1861
L[yman] M. Kellogg, Captain, Company A, 24th Regiment, Ohio Infantry Volunteers, United States Army, Camp Chase, Franklin County, Ohio. To Colonel Jacob Ammen, Commanding, 24th Regiment, Ohio Infantry Volunteers, United States Army. Letter recommending Sergeant Major Edgar R. Kellogg for the appointment of Lieutenant.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 88]

July 4, 1861
Lyman M. Kellogg, Captain, United States Army, Camp Chase, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he had been appointed a Captain in the 18th Infantry, United States Army, and was tendering his resignation as Captain of Company A, 24th Regiment, Ohio Infantry Volunteers, United States Army.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 133]

July 4, 1861
Edd McCue, Somerton, Belmont County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he had a company of Home Guards from Belmont County, that he wanted to take them into active service, and that all of the men were farmers and would be ready as soon as the harvest was saved.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 74]

July 4, 1861
William S. Pierson, Mayor's Office, Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending Captain Bolinger to command an artillery company.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 45]

July 5, 1861
W.H. Allen, Secretary of Company at Frease's Store, Militia of Reserve, and Captain H.W. Stambaugh, Frease's Store, Stark County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that they had the largest company in Stark County or in any of the adjoining counties and thought they should have the arms that were in hands that were doing nothing, that they knew of ten or fifteen muskets in the hands of persons in and around Mt. Eaton in Wayne County who were really secessionists at heart or at least opposed every move made by Union men, and that they did not see the propriety of leaving arms in that class of hands when good Union men needed them.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 20]

July 5, 1861
J[acob] Ammen, Colonel, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that 1st Sergeant Thomas M. McClure of Company A, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was well qualified to fill the vacancy of lieutenant in the company.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 83]

July 5, 1861
O. Bennet, Major Commanding, Camp Wool, Athens, Athens County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting a regimental tent.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 94]

July 5, 1861
R.E. Champion, Brigade Quartermaster, Grafton, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting blank lists of prisoners, lists of the guard, guard reports, and requisitions on commissary for rations.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 15]

July 5, 1861
E[zra] W. Clark, Jr., Captain, Company A, 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he could report a full company in five days after being assured that they would be accepted for three years' service, that there was a company raised in Seneca County by John E. McCormack which had failed to obtain acceptance, that McCormack proposed to unite his company with the company to be raised by Clark, that approximately half of these men would be experienced three months' volunteers, and that it was his hope that many loyal men from Seneca County could get a place to fight for the Stars and Stripes.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 59]

July 5, 1861
L.L. Harvey, Matamoras, Washington County, Ohio. To Adjutant General H.B. Carrington. Letter asking how signal note for trumpet corresponding with the command for cavalry could be obtained.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 26]

July 5, 1861
F.H. Loring, Center Belpre, Washington County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter requesting arms for his company as soon as possible.
3 pp. [Series 147-1: 25]

July 5, 1861
James W. McShane, John Wieser, Cridersville, Auglaize County, Ohio. To Adjutant General H.B. Carrington. Letter stating that there were a number of old United States muskets in Auglaize County and that the boys wanted them.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 21]

July 5, 1861
John G. Nicolay, Executive Mansion, Washington. To Governor William Dennison. Letter acknowledging receipt of a letter from the Adjutant General of Ohio transmitting the desired answers to inquiries addressed to Dennison by Abraham Lincoln.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 23]

July 5, 1861
J.S. Perley, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter offering to raise a company of men in Cuyahoga County, and stating that he served under Louis Kossuth in the Hungarian Revolution.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 75]

July 5, 1861
W.R. Wallace, Alliance, Stark County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General, Columbus, Ohio. Letter asking what was to be done with those men sent home from Camp Dennison as three months' men when the regiment was filled up for three years' service, stating that they were sent home on furlough and were remaining in Alliance awaiting further orders, that they were poor men and their situation prevented them from working as they could not hire themselves for any specific time, and that they were out of money to pay their board, and requesting that they be able to draw their pay or be discharged.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 15]

July 6, 1861
O. Bennet, Major Commanding, Battalion Headquarters, Camp Summit, w track, Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter complaining about the current location of his headquarters and logistical problems, and requesting permission to move his headquarters to Harmer.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 93]

July 6, 1861
Joseph Braden, Lieutenant Commanding, Princeton, Butler County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking how a group of 75 men from Butler County could obtain arms for drill and target practice, and stating that the men had been under drill weekly for three months and were healthy and "brawny" laboring men.
3 pp. [Series 147-1: 18]

July 6, 1861
William B. French, Lockland, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter requesting authority to organize a company of sharpshooters.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 70]

July 6, 1861
Miss Amelia Gibbons, Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana. To the Adjutant General. Letter asking if a missing relative's name appeared among the names of those who had enlisted in Ohio, and stating that she thought he had either enlisted or been murdered.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 41]

July 6, 1861
P. Kinney, Brigadier General, 2nd Brigade, 7th Division, Ohio Volunteer Militia, Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Buckingham should give the order if he wanted the services of one or two companies on the border "above us."
1 p. [Series 147-1: 61]

July 6, 1861
Kirk & Cheever, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General. Letter inquiring if the state would pay the commissioned officers of the three months' volunteers from the date of their commission to the time of their being mustered in. Bears a penciled notation reading "State pays nothing."
1 p. [Series 147-1: 16]

July 6, 1861
John F. Slappy, New Paris, Preble County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter regarding Ohio boys leaving and volunteering in Indiana and Illinois and "grumbling" about the treatment in Ohio, wanting to know why they could not keep them at home, and stating that he thought it a "disgrace" that Ohio men had to leave the state at that critical moment, and that they meant to protect the stars and stripes even if they had to go to Indiana to do it.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 63]

July 6, 1861
S.B. Sturges, Lieutenant Colonel, 1st Regiment, Light Artillery, Ohio Volunteer Militia, The Forest City Bank, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter introducing Captain F.W. Pelton (who Sturges had ordered to Columbus to assist Buckingham in the organization of the new batteries for the regiment), instructing Buckingham to furnish Pelton with a horse since he was somewhat lame and could not perform his duties properly without one, and requesting that Pelton have a servant.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 96]

July 6, 1861
E.L. Traver, Albany, New York. To Adjutant General H.B. Carrington. Letter requesting a position commanding a decent salary in Carrington's office.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 84]

July 7, 1861
M.P. Bestow, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter complaining that he had been given two days to distribute orders and explain them when the nine regiments to be covered were scattered over a position of country that no man could travel over in less than five days.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 97]

July 7, 1861
William H. Lytle, Colonel, 10th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, camp near Clarksburgh. To Sir. Letter requesting commissions for a surgeon, assistant surgeon, chaplain, and ensign.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 33]

July 7, 1861
Captain A.J. Rosa, Madison, Lake County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if his company would be received should they organize themselves to serve as dragoon or cavalry, and stating that they would provide themselves with horses and the necessary apparatus.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 55]

July 8, 1861
John W. Andrews, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Dear Sir. Letter sending a Mr. Davis who wanted to study a profession although poor, was willing to work, and was anxious to make enough to pay his necessary expenses.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 86]

July 8, 1861
O. Bennet, Major Commanding, Battalion Headquarters, Camp Summit, w track, Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter reporting on guarding the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad; stating that there was some discontent among the men over not receiving promptly the necessary tents to shelter them from rain and night dews, that there had been trouble furnishing the many pickets with their rations, that his troops had discovered forty kegs of powder stored in a small house near the tunnel station, and that local residents wanted the powder removed; requesting permission to remove the powder to the magazine near Marietta where he believed it would be more secure from "evil hands;" and assuring Buckingham that he had been very cautious not to sign or approve any requisition that he did not consider actually necessary.
4 pp. [Series 147-1: 92]

July 8, 1861
D.S. Brigham, Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that his men were uniformed in accordance with the law and that he wished to procure an order for arms.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 21]

July 8, 1861
A.S. Bundy, Captain, Company C, 2nd Division, 3rd Brigade, Ohio Reserve Militia, Westboro, Clinton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter requesting six dozen stand of arms.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 25]

July 8, 1861
T[homas] W. Donaldson, Gratiot, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he wanted to go into the service of his country, that he had experience in the Mexican War, that he sought a captain's commission, and that he could have a company ready in a few days.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 64]

July 8, 1861
J.A. Fearden, Captain, Ellsworth Zouaves, Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that his Zouave company was ready for marching orders, that all they wanted were muskets, that his boys were "spoiling" for a chance to do service in the cause, that he wished to be sent to guard the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad as a means of getting his company into Virginia, that he was a former employee of the railroad, and that his boys were just the kind of "dare-devils" that would go through anything when they got "wakened up."
1 p. [Series 147-1: 79]

[July 8, 1861]
F.L. Flowers, New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending Thomas W. Donaldson as a suitable person to receive a commission to raise a company, citing his service in the Mexican War.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 64]

July 8, 1861
John H. Gerard, Mount Washington, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding an election for officers in the Gerard Rifles and wanting to know why commissions have not been forwarded.
3 pp. [Series 147-1: 25]

July 8, 1861
John F. Gifford, O.S. in Behalf of the Company, Ashtabula, Ashtabula County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter offering the services of an artillery company.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 42]

July 8, 1861
W.F. Green, O.S., Headquarters, Company A, Miami County, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Corps, Militia of the Reserve. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the company numbered 45 men, that some of the men had uniforms, and that their uniform was state regulation blue, and asking what the chance was to get arms.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 65]

July 8, 1861
Thomas D. Greene, Brigade Major, Headquarters of 2nd Brigade, 7th Division, Ohio Militia and Ohio Volunteer Militia, Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter enclosing the qualification certificates of the officers of Company A, cavalry, and the roll and poll books of the Johnston Grays, Ironton, and requesting the commissions for Scioto and Lawrence County.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 35]

July 8, 1861
Joel Haines, West Middleburg, Logan County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General. Letter requesting the form of oath to be delivered to the men as they were enrolled so as not to waste time with those who were not willing to take the oath, asking if the captain had the power to administer the oath or if a justice of the peace had to do it, and requesting information regarding the exact amount of wages each man was entitled to from the captain down to the privates, and the least number of men that would be received as a company in the Ohio Reserve Militia.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 104]