July 8, 1860[1]
L.W. Houseworth, Hampden, Geauga County, Ohio. To Dear Sir. Letter stating that the surgeon's certificate was left with General H.B. Carrington, that he was ready to go, and that he wanted his pass as soon as he could get it. Pasted to letter dated July 11, 1861, from James F. Brown.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 38]
July 8, 1861
S.M. Hunter, Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting authority to raise a company of light artillery in Harrison County, and stating that he was captain of a squad which had been in existence for some time in Cadiz and that he was acquainted somewhat with the school of the battery.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 47]
July 8, 1861
Colonel G.H. Larison, Lambertville, New Jersey. To Dear Sir. Letter requesting military state documents.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 30]
July 8, 1861
John McCurdy, Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had just received notice of his appointment and would proceed to Columbus at once.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 24]
July 8, 1861
Robert McLoud, Millwood, Knox County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that there were fifty-five old style muskets in the hands of a person in Brown Township, Knox County doing no good to anyone, and requesting an order for said muskets.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 122]
July 8, 1861
Lieutenant W.D. McPherson, Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if they must confine themselves to the regulations, and stating that some of their men were going in for the Zouaves. Pasted inside letter dated July 5, 1861, from F.H. Loring.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 25]
July 8, 1861
W[ilber] F. Pierce, Captain, Company K, 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; et. al. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending the appointment of Captain Franklin Sawyer of Company D, 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to the office of Lieutenant Colonel of the 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 85]
July 8, 1861
John S. Post, 16 Mile Stand, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter asking if a company would be accepted if organized within two weeks by an experienced officer who saw service in Mexico at the battles of Monterey and Buena Vista.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 71]
July 8, 1861
George Rogers, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter inquiring as to the status of his offer of a company from Knox County, stating that about seventy of the original Company B (three months' men) had been ordered home on furlough, and that over half of these men were anxious to re-enlist under a "satisfactory" organization and with proper assurance of acceptance, and asking how the men who returned were to obtain their pay for the time they were in state and federal service.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 69]
July 8, 1861
Joseph Turney, Newburgh, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he thought there were enough men at Newburgh to form a company of flying artillery.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 47]
July 8, 1861
J.D. Williams, General Headquarters, State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, Hartford. To General H.B. Carrington. Letter requesting a copy of Carrington's orders establishing the uniforms for the militia of the reserve of Ohio.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 34]
July 8, 1861
William H. Winters, Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting assurance that a company would be speedily accepted.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 68]
July 8, 1861
J.M. Wisehart, Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter requesting arms for a company, stating that rifles were preferred to muskets, that the company would be ready to fight for the flag after being supplied with arms, and that the company tendered its services for guarding the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 26]
July 8, 1861
W[ashington] W. Woodward, Lieutenant, Company C, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Camp Upton. To Governor William Dennison. Letter requesting assistance in obtaining a position when his enlistment expired, and for permission to recruit a company. Camp Upton may have been Fort Upton, a Union defense constructed in 1861 at Upton's Hill in Arlington, Virginia.
3 pp. [Series 147-1: 116]
July 8, 1861
Sergeant J.C. Woodyard, Athens, Athens County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter asking if any companies besides the forty named in General Order #25 would be accepted with the privilege of electing their own officers, stating that he wanted to go into the service with men who he grew up with and that "good" men would remain at home rather than have strangers appointed over them.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 81]
July 9, 1861
M.P. Bestow, Clarksburg, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding General Order #25, to reorganize the troops for three years, stating that 40 companies would be made up immediately if the governor allowed the men a furlough of 10 days to go home and attend to their business, that unless he could promise the men such a furlough, he did not think 2 companies could be mustered out of the 2 regiments in Clarksburg, Virginia, that there was a great deal of complaining among the men and officers, that the men were more out of humor over not being paid than about their uniforms, and that there was one case of smallpox in camp.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 98]
July 9, 1861
Samuel Black, Camp Wool, Athens, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter recommending Captain J. Steadman Meakin, in charge of a company of Ohio Militia guarding bridges on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, to Buckingham's favorable consideration.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 73]
July 9, 1861
William B. Cassilly, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding pay for services rendered as an officer on General William Haines Lytle's staff at Camp Harrison.
3 pp. [Series 147-1: 28]
July 9, 1861
O. Cole, Chief Clerk, Office of the Auditor of State, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting information.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 39]
July 9, 1861
L.P. Conner, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. To George B. Wright. Letter requesting that the necessary orders be procured for Edwin Nichols of Newark to organize a company, attesting to Nichols' integrity, energy and "pluck," and stating that a commission for Nichols would be for the good of "our glorious country." Back of letter bears George B. Wright's endorsement as Assistant Quartermaster General, forwarded to Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 67]
July 9, 1861
B.R. Cowen, Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter resigning his position as Assistant Commissary of Subsistence due to his appointment as Paymaster in the U.S. Army, and recommending Cyrus H. Strahl of Bellaire as his replacement, attesting to Strahl's strict integrity, "correct" moral habits and experience.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 115]
July 9, 1861
S. Craighead, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending that S.B. Smith be authorized to raise a company in Dayton with assurance that the company would be accepted and transferred to some field of active duty.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 63]
July 9, 1861
T[homas] W. Donaldson, Gratiot, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he had pledges from thirty men to serve with him as sharpshooters, that these men lived in the country, and that they were used to the rifle.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 67]
July 9, 1861
O. Follett, President's Office, Sandusky, Dayton & Cincinnati Railway Company, Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter of introduction for Lieutenant C.H. Riggs of the Sandusky River Guards, Company A, First Quota, Militia of the Reserve, whose purpose was to procure arms for the company.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 31]
July 9, 1861
B.H. Fox, Captain, J.R. Hitesman, 1st Lieutenant, John L. Ely, 2nd Lieutenant, Company B, 1st Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Ohio Volunteer Militia Reserve, Butlerville, Warren County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting arms and copies of the Military Law and the Rules and Articles of War.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 36]
July 9, 1861
R.H. Geary, Book & Job Printing House, Northeast Cor. High & Broad Sts., Office of Daily & Weekly Capital City Fact, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding a draft on the Adjutant General for certain expenses without the Adjutant General's authorization.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 37]
July 9, 1861
W.W. Johnson, Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter regarding the state of affairs along the Ohio border in the upper end of Lawrence County, opposite Guyandotte, Virginia which he describes as the "worst secession" place that side of the mountains in Virginia, and stating that people opposite Guyandotte, Virginia were much alarmed and needed protection, that an artillery company along with 80 infantry had been sent, that people of the neighborhood agreed to subsist these troops, and that most of the men who had gone were very poor and could ill afford to do the service without compensation.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 110]
July 9, 1861
J.B. Newton, Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General. Letter regarding a company of rifles raised at Bowling Green, and asking if there would be a chance for them to serve their country and if they should hold an election and drill or "keep quiet."
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 58]
July 9, 1861
F.D. Parish, Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter commending to Dennison's favorable attention the application of the military company organized in Sandusky as part of the militia of reserve for the state.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 41]
July 9, 1861
Enoch Pearce, Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter declining his appointment as Assistant Surgeon, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Militia.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 112]
July 9, 1861
Milton P. Peirce, Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he would guarantee to rendezvous within 15 days after receiving authority, 1,000 men who could come up to Hiram Berdan's standard for sharpshooters, and that all he asked was command of his own company.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 76]
July 9, 1861
James B. Ripley, Ordnance Office, Washington, D.C. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that 3,600 muskets and accouterments had been ordered to be sent to Captain Howard Strausburg, Mustering Officer at Columbus, Ohio, the former from the Frankfort and the latter from the New York arsenal, and that owing to the small supply of arms on hand, no provision could be made for contingencies.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 99]
July 9, 1861
C.L. Russell, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if the three months' men belonging to the 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were entitled to receive pay for the full period of their enlistment commencing at the time when they were mustered into the service.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 39]
July 9, 1861
H.L. Sook, Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter asking if a company of cavalry would be accepted.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 54]
July 9, 1861
Perry Stewart, Captain, near Springfield, Clark County, Ohio. To General H.B. Carrington. Letter requesting arms for drill purposes.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 28]
July 9, 1861
E. Tullis, Captain of Company A, Somerford Township, 3rd Brigade, 5th Division, Ohio Volunteer Militia of Reserve, Somerford, Madison County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting arms which had been loaned to an unorganized company, and stating that these arms had been used by the Madison Guards in 1857- 1858.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 29]
July 9, 1861
Crafts J. Wright, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding a military hospital in Cincinnati. With enclosure.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 40]
July 9, 1861
A list of the number of men in the companies composing the 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 72]
July 10, 1861
Edward F. Adams, Hambden, Geauga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking how many companies must be formed before they could have a regimental organization, if companies for a regiment were grouped and designated at headquarters or were the regiments formed by voluntary association of companies, if they would be notified to organize a regiment or should they take any preliminary steps, and if field officers were to be elected by the entire vote of the companies or by the commissioned officers.
3 pp. [Series 147-1: 157]
July 10, 1861
J[acob] D[olson] Cox, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter regarding commissions for officers of the 8th and 11th Regiments, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, asking if it would be feasible to allow Captain Cranor's company at Bellaire to settle the question whether they would enlist for three years, and stating that the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was a good battalion, "well officered," and that he would like to have the entire regiment together.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 111]
July 10, 1861
George W. Culver, Belle Vernon, Wyandot County, Ohio. To Adjutant General H.B. Carrington. Letter stating that they had 42 names on their roll and a good prospect for many more, and asking if they should organize or wait.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 106]
July 10, 1861
Jeremiah Davidson, Clarksburg, Virginia. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter requesting a roll for enlistments and a roll for re-enlistments, stating that Company E of the 18th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) would soon go out of service and that a majority of the men would re-enlist if they had the privilege of electing their officers.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 112]
July 10, 1861
John H. Dickerson, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding removing tents from Camp Dennison to Camp Chase, and stating that he did not know if Camp Dennison would again be occupied and did not feel at liberty to disturb it in General George B. McClellan's absence.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 102]
July 10, 1861
William H. Douglas, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he was not an office seeker and would much rather have Dennison's authority to raise a company for the war than any office.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 62]
July 10, 1861
William M. Harder, Ashtabula, Ashtabula County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General. Letter requesting forms and pay schedules, and regarding acceptance of a cavalry company from Ashtabula County.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 27]
July 10, 1861
R. Mason, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, Camp Upton, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding commissions for officers, and stating that there seemed to be some misunderstanding at headquarters concerning the command of the regiment.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 113]
July 10, 1861
Miller Moody, Captain, Company I, 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), camp near West Union, Virginia, North Western Pike. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding General Order #25.
3 pp. [Series 147-1: 114]
July 10, 1861
Milton P. Peirce, Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter regarding a Berdan regiment of sharpshooters and Hiram Berdan's standard of firing ten consecutive shots into a ten inch ring at a distance of 200 yards, stating that Berdan's standard could not be met with the Enfield rifle as then sighted, but that it could be met with the Sharp's long army carbine mounted with a serviceable sabre bayonet which would cost only one half as much as other states were allowing their Berdan units for arms, and that the Sharp's carbine was the best of all weapons for army purposes, being two thirds as heavy as the Enfield rifle with greater range and far superior accuracy.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 77]
July 10, 1861
William S. Pierson, Mayor, Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending Captain Bolinger to command an artillery company. Endorsed by several individuals.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 46]
July 10, 1861
H.D. Rugh, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if a company of 101 men would be accepted from Toledo.
1 p. [Series 147-1: 106]
July 10, 1861
Edward Stine, Canton, Stark County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter offering to raise a company of 102 men in a short time if he could take them into camp right away.
3 pp. [Series 147-1: 60]
July 10, 1861
William H. Trimble, Colonel, First Highland Regiment, Regimental Headquarters, 1st Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, Ohio Reserve Militia, Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Buckingham's appointment as Adjutant General met with public approval and his hope that it would put a stop to the "chronic" and "malignant" disposition of the press to "abuse" the governor, that the furnishing of arms had given a new "spring" to the regiment's efforts, his hope to gratify Governor Dennison's wish to make the First Highland Regiment the pattern regiment of the state, and that if successful, he hoped to be delivered from such duty as guarding the bridges of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, that the high price of swords and trimming for uniforms in Cincinnati had caused him to request New York prices, and that if the prices were sufficiently less to make it an inducement, he wanted to make the purchase. Written on a printed copy of General Order #3.
2 pp. [Series 147-1: 32]