August 5, 1861
R.A. Constable, Athens, Athens County, Ohio .To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that quite a number of the members of Company C, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) had requested him to ascertain whether they were expected to report themselves immediately at Camp Chase to be mustered out of service or if they should wait for a personal notice.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 168]

August 5, 1861
M.E. Cully, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. To G.B. Wright, Assistant Quartermaster General, Columbus, Ohio. Letter requesting an order to raise a company, and regarding canvassing efforts in Licking County.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 157]

August 5, 1861
J.P. Flowers, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Brownsville, Licking County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking when the three months' men of the 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry would be paid off.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 167]

[August 5?, 1861]
Luther Freeman, Sunbury, Delaware County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that his son had enlisted at Delaware in Company C, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), that his son had been at Camp Dennison and was sent home on furlough, that his son came home very sick with measles and had been in poor health ever since, that he supposed the government intended to pay the three months' volunteers, that he understood they were to be paid that week or next, and that he wanted to know when his son should be at Columbus as he did not wish to incur the expense of the trip for nothing.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 170]

August 5, 1861
Thomas Gaffey, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that there were a great many three months' volunteers in the area who had been at Camp Dennison and whose time expired on July 27th, and that these men were very anxious to know when they were to be mustered out of service and paid off.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 169]

August 5, 1861
J.W. Green, Lieutenant Commanding, Zouave Regiment, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting a copy of the document ordering the Dayton Zouave Rangers into service.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 179]

August 5, 1861
James Harper, Publisher, Gallipolis Journal, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter introducing John C. Neal, and recommending him for a position in the Regimental Commissary Department or Quartermaster Department or any other position Dennison saw fit.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 152]

August 5, 1861
George D. Hendricks, Eaton, Preble County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that many of Eaton's citizens were anxious to raise a company of cavalry, and requesting authority to do so.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 174]

[August 5?, 1861]
G.H. Hudly, Canal Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. To ?. Post script asking if a cavalry company would be accepted and under what commanding officer; and stating that since their return, one of their men had died of typhoid fever and four others were not expected to live.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 174]

August 5, 1861
William H. Ijams, Caldwell, Noble County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General. Letter stating that he was organizing an infantry company at Caldwell; requesting a roll and all other instructions necessary; and stating that they proposed offering the company for service as soon as it was full, and that the company would be full in approximately ten days.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 152]

August 5, 1861
Barton S. Kyle, Clerk's Office, Troy, Miami County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Robert Youart wanted to raise an infantry company for the war, and that it would require some time to enlist a company owing to the fact that a large number had already enlisted from Troy and the surrounding area; requesting that Youart be given authority to raise a company and authority to subsist his men in camp at Troy as they enlisted until the company was filled; and stating that they had all the necessary camp equipage and that the men could be subsisted cheaply, and that Youart was a careful man and would do it as cheaply as possible. Bears penciled notation reading "Cannot permit companies to go into camp and subsist until they have first written here stating what it will cost per day for each man. Then if the Governor thinks best he will order it to be done."
1 p. [Series 147-3: 180]

August 5, 1861
George D. McKinney, Commanding, Company C, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Buckingham's advertisement in the Cincinnati Commercial of August 5th would be copied in the Dayton daily newspapers, and that there were three companies of the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) gathered at Dayton.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 169]

August 5, 1861
Norman Merrill, Ottokee, Fulton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he wanted to recruit at least one company for the 38th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry being raised by Colonel E.D. Bradley of Stryker, Williams County, and that war excitement was high in Fulton County.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 220]

August 5, 1861
C[harles] N. Norton, Sergeant, 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking how the three months' men in the Fremont area were to get to Columbus to be mustered out and paid off since their wages did not amount to what it would cost to travel there and back; stating that there were about one hundred fifty men (part of three companies) who were anxious to reenlist, but who were waiting to be mustered out; asking if they could reenlist before they mustered out and how they would get paid for their three months' service; and stating that when they entered three months' service, a great many left good situations and spent in time and money and sacrifice of business four times what they would receive.
2 pp. [Series 147-3: 178]

August 5, 1861
J.S. Parrott, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter concerning the disappearance of muster rolls.
2 pp. [Series 147-3: 133]

August 5, 1861
James W. Shaw, Captain, Cridersville, Auglaize County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he thought they could fill their company in a week or ten days, and asking if each company was entitled to a doctor.
2 pp. [Series 147-3: 148]

August 5, 1861
William Vance, Croghan, Allen County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had raised a volunteer company for active service in Croghan and wished to take immediate measures to get the company into active service.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 181]

August 5, 1861
A[lbert] G. Wetherby, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio. To Dear Sir. Letter stating that there were several members of Company C, 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) at Oberlin College, and that there had been a notice in print that the men were to be mustered out; and asking where and when they should go, if they would have to bear their own traveling expenses, if they all had to go, if the highest officer of the returned volunteers could take their furloughs and do the business for them, and if they could do the business by proxy through a friend in Columbus.
2 pp. [Series 147-3: 173]

August 5, 1861
D.J. Wilder, Newburgh, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had observed a notice in one of the Cleveland papers calling on the three months' volunteers of the 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to meet in Columbus for the purpose of being mustered out of service, that said notice was not officially signed, that he was a member of Company A, Zouave St. Guards, and that most members of this unit were now in Cleveland and vicinity having been discharged from Camp Dennison on furlough; and asking what the probable disposal would be of those who had not reenlisted for three years. Bears penciled notation reading " No arrangements have yet been made for paying off those men who were discharged or furloughed at Camp Dennison, but will be in a short time, when notice will be published in the papers of the State."
2 pp. [Series 147-3: 183]

August 5, 1861
Jno. J. Williams, Marion, Marion County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding a cavalry company; asking if the government furnished all equipments for men and officers, what the pay was per month for privates, which division and regiment the company would be placed, if any of the officers were allowed more than one horse, and if extra horses were furnished by the government or by the officers; and stating that a good deal of discouragement had been encountered owing to the length of time between the company's organization on April 23rd and when notice was received of the company's acceptance, that many of the men had made other arrangements joining infantry companies, etc., and that he hoped an extension of one week or more could be granted in accepting the company.
2 pp. [Series 147-3: 129]

August 5, 1861
Thomas Worthington, Morrow, Warren County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the bearer, James Thomson of Morrow, thought of going into service; asking Buckingham to do what he could for Thomson's confirmation; requesting written authority from Buckingham for transportation of men to Morrow; and asking Buckingham to inform Captain Newkirk of Miami County that there was a letter for him in the Columbus office.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 147]

August 6, 1861
John J. Ackerman, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding Henry Ober, who had served for seven years in the French Artillery service, two of which were spent in the Crimean War; stating that Ober desired to engage in the National Artillery service if he could obtain the grade of service to which his knowledge and experience entitled him, and that Ober spoke German and French, but not English.
2 pp. [Series 147-3: 179]

August 6, 1861
Henry S. Babbitt, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting his appointment as 1st Lieutenant, 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with the duties of Quartermaster.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 188]

August 6, 1861
E.A. Bratton, McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio .To Governor William Dennison. Letter asking if his application for the Colonelcy of the 18th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry under its new organization was to be accepted; and requesting the opportunity to remove any doubts if there was anything derogatory to his application.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 184]

August 6, 1861
William Disney, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending Benjamin I. Horton who was seeking a Captaincy or Lieutenancy in the infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 153]

August 6, 1861
William Feeney, Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that at about 3 P.M. on August 12, they could be at Milford or Camp Dennison which was their nearest point to the railroad and would proceed immediately to Columbus if transportation was furnished.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 211]

August 6, 1861
John Ferguson, Major, 30th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had been informed that men who had come to camp as members of companies assigned to the 30th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were being induced by various means to join the artillery and cavalry companies located immediately west of his regiment, that such action was "very uncourteous" to say the least, should be prevented if possible, and was producing much dissatisfaction, and that the matter could probably be remedied by an order from headquarters to the effect that commandants of companies should not receive men who had come to camp as members of other companies.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 160]

August 6, 1861
Manning F. Force, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison .Letter recommending Benjamin Horton for a commission as Lieutenant in the volunteer troops.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 153]

August 6, 1861
Nelson G. Franklin, La Rue, Marion County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the prospects for getting up a company at La Rue for three years' service were very good, and requesting information regarding the initial steps necessary for making up such a company.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 155]

August 6, 1861
John W. Fuller, Colonel Commanding, 27th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that prisoners Alfred Glass and Jesse E. Goodyear charged with abduction and rape in Maryland and John Wallace charged with assaulting an officer in Virginia, Privates in Company C of the 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), were in the custody of the officer of his guard, that the charges and specifications against the prisoners together with the list of witnesses in each case had been filed at his headquarters, and that he was awaiting any instructions as to his duty regarding the prisoners.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 172]

August 6, 1861
C.W. Goodsell, Windham, Portage County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking when the three months' men sent home from camp with furloughs were to be mustered out, and if these men could reenlist before being mustered out and not loose their pay for three months' service.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 216]

August 6, 1861
J.V. Keepers, Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he saw by the papers that Buckingham wanted the addresses of the commissioned officers of the 18th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), and that he was getting up a company for three years' service; asking if such a company would be received as infantry or artillery; and stating that he preferred artillery, but had experience in both.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 185]

August 6, 1861
William Nash, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter introducing the bearer, J.C. Neal; stating that "in these dull times," Neal was perplexed about something to do, and that Neal was seeking employment in some department of the military service.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 151]

August 6, 1861
George E. Paine, Captain, Company F, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter requesting to be paid "forthwith" at least a portion of the amount due him for three months' service ending on July 27th; and stating that since April 15th he had neglected all personal matters and given his time and over $300 in cash towards the suppression of the rebellion, that he returned home to find himself threatened with the penalty of a delinquent June tax of some $53 and the executions for costs against a concern for which he was acting as agent when he went into the war, that it seemed a hard case to be thus compelled to pay a penalty and costs to the officials of Ohio while at the same time the State owed him many times the amount, that $100 would relieve him of these "petty embarrassments," and that if those in office were not able to afford such relief, then Ohio "may go to the devil" and he would serve the remainder of the war under another state. Bears penciled notation reading "Will get his pay at the same time that the other officers do .The state officials are in the same fix as yourself as to pay."
1 p. [Series 147-3: 214]

August 6, 1861
George E. Paine, Captain, Company F, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that several of the three months' men of the Painesville Company had asked him for information as to how they were to obtain their pay and get mustered out, that this company had been recruited for the three years' service and was part of the 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry currently in western Virginia, that the three months' men in question wanted him to act as their agent in obtaining their pay and discharge, and that a number of these men would reenlist if they could be paid off and discharged.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 212]

August 6, 1861
George E. Paine, Captain, Company F, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that on or about June 27th, when some ten miles beyond Clarksburg, Virginia, the officers of the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) were ordered to send back all the baggage not absolutely necessary for the march towards Beverly, that this order came from General William S. Rosecrans, that, in accordance with the order, he sent a small trunk and a bag of valuable clothing, etc., gathered up in his company as a matter of precaution, to the railroad at Clarksburg for shipment to Cleveland, that he had also enclosed in the trunk his muster roll and the receipt signed by members of his company for the clothing, etc. delivered to them, and that the trunk and bag never reached Cleveland; and requesting a certificate from headquarters which would enable him to pass over the various routes by way of Zanesville, Wheeling, Grafton, Marietta and Parkersburg so that he could return to Clarksburg and follow the missing property from that point. Bears penciled notation reading "State cannot furnish passes to hunt up lost property."
2 pp. [Series 147-3: 210]

August 6, 1861
George E. Paine, Captain, Company F, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter asking if the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) was to be given any allowance for the deficient rations to which they were subjected while in Virginia; and stating that he had the account of what his company actually received. Bears penciled notation reading "No allowance for deficient rations."
1 p. [Series 147-3: 209]

August 6, 1861
Isaac Paist, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had not succeeded in enlisting a cavalry company to report on August 7th, that the principal difficulty was that General Taylor of London, Madison County had also received an order to raise a cavalry company, that he had enrolled thirty men, that Taylor had come to Columbus and spoken to these men proposing that they unite with his company, and that he would use all of his influence to have the men he had enrolled join Taylor's company.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 161]

August 6, 1861
F.W. Pelton, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter declining his appointment as Captain of the 2nd Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery; and stating that since his return home, he had been occupied fixing up his business affairs which had been sadly neglected during his absence, and that he could not accept the appointment and at the same time do justice to himself and his family.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 203]

August 6, 1861
Aaron F. Perry, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter introducing B.J. Horton, a friend and lawyer from Cincinnati; stating that Horton was a young man of "entirely unexceptionable" character and habits and a graduate of Yale College, that Horton had been under active drill in a local company and wanted to raise a company for the war, and that he expected Horton to prove himself to be a man of "hardihood" and courage if given the opportunity.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 153]

August 6, 1861
A. Sanders Piatt, Colonel Commanding, 34th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Zouave Regiment, 56 West 4th Street, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had seen notice in the previous day's morning papers of the appointment of the field officers of his regiment, and that the officers had no documentary evidence of the appointment which was necessary to give authority to their acts; and requesting certificates or commissions for each officer.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 156]

August 6, 1861
Charles H. Pratt, Captain, Company F, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 7th Division, Ohio Volunteer Militia, Lucasville, Scioto County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the company of volunteers under his command wanted to go into immediate service; asking if he could raise a full company for immediate duty by virtue of the commission he now held; and stating that the men in the Lucasville area wanted to aid the Government in avenging insults to the national flag, and that his men were not uniformed, but would if necessary rectify this defect.
1 p. [Series 147-3: 192]

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