August 26, 1861
R[obert] F. Jackson, Adjutant, 32nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Buckingham, Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting some blank company and field monthly and morning reports.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 155]
August 26, 1861
A[lexander] McD[owell] McCook, Colonel, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Corwin, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he was informed that Dr. [Albert] Wilson of Sidney, Ohio, his former Surgeon's Mate, had passed the Assistant Surgeon's examination, and that if compatible with the public service, he wanted Wilson assigned to duty with his regiment and ordered to report for duty without delay.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 162]
August 26, 1861
A[lexander] McD[owell] McCook, Colonel, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Corwin, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting that a commission of First Lieutenant be furnished to James Hill, Quartermaster of the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that Hill was currently on duty at Camp Corwin.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 162]
August 26, 1861
Washington Miller, Dresden, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter requesting a position in the army; stating that he would be willing to raise a company and take charge of it when raised, but did not claim to be a military man; and providing references. Bears a confidential note warning Dennison about several Muskingum County residents holding commissions who were continually speaking against the State and National administrations and of the South's ultimate success; and stating that these individuals were Democrats.
2 pp. [Series 147-5: 156]
August 26, 1861
T.V. Parke, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter recommending his son for a vacant position in Buckingham's office.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 169]
August 26, 1861
J. Purdy, Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter proposing that a portion of the Militia of the Reserve be trained and fitted for actual service and on call for emergencies such as they had recently in western Virginia and Missouri.
2 pp. [Series 147-5: 165]
August 26, 1861
H.M. Ramsey, Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had asked Governor William Dennison for a Major's commission some three weeks ago, that since then, several other non-military men had been made Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, Majors, etc., that after the rebels fired into the "Star of the West," he tried to organize a company at Mt. Vernon, that if the whole North had organized as many localities did and shown a united front, further outrage might have been avoided, that many thought such movements premature at the time and the matter was dropped until it took shape in the Home Guard, that it was exceedingly annoying to have promptness when danger was not imminent contrasted with apparent tardiness once actual war began and to be continually taunted with the remark that those who advocated uncompromising war were the last to expose themselves to its dangers, that he was sick when the Captains of two of their companies were chosen, that he was not able either physically or pecuniarily to serve in the ranks, that his situation did not permit him to stand guard at nights or make business sacrifices, that a Major's commission would enable him to put his newspaper on a solid and independent foundation and thereby continue to promote the prosecution of the war and mould public opinion, that he had done as much service as many who were receiving commissions, that he did not ask for or expect a commission if enough "unexceptionable" West Point men could be found to take them, that commissions were being conferred upon men who were in no way superior to himself, and that he did not feel at liberty to ask [Columbus] Delano to aid him in obtaining a commission because of misapprehensions on Delano's part regarding friendly feelings between them.
3 pp. [Series 147-5: 170]
August 26, 1861
Benjamin Scribner, Hambden, Geauga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he was Captain of Company A, 1st Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 9th Division, Ohio Volunteer Militia, that twenty-six of his men agreed to enlist for three years if the company officers would go as organized, and that he would try to raise a company; requesting information regarding the least number that would be taken as a company; and stating that they wished to go into the Ashtabula Regiment.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 154]
August 26, 1861
S.F. Shaw, Captain, Scotts Landing. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had some men in his company who wanted to withdraw and join the 36th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry which was forming at Camp Putnam, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio; asking if he could get permission to let them withdraw by furnishing good substitutes, and if he could fill his company to eighty or one hundred men; and stating that he had done all in his power to assist in filling the 36th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that the regiment was about full.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 143]
August 26, 1861
George G. Shumard, Surgeon General of Ohio, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter calling Buckingham's attention to the fact that few of the Surgeons whose regiments had been mustered out of service had settled their accounts with the Surgeon General's Office; and stating that some of these Surgeons had large quantities of medical stores and instruments on hand which had not been returned to the Surgeon General's Office or properly accounted for in any way, that payment should be withheld until these Surgeons made due returns to the Surgeon General's Office, and that when this was done, certificates of settlement would be issued which would serve as their vouchers.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 126]
August 26, 1861
Jacob Snider, Centreville, Wayne County, Indiana. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that his son, E[dwin] T. Snider, was a member of Company D, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) which had been in Virginia the past three or four months, that his son had not received his pay nor did he know when, where or how he was to get it, that his son had written to Captain A[bram] Thompson, New Paris, Preble County, but received no information, that not knowing the whereabouts of Major McDowell, he wrote him at Cincinnati without response, that his son could not afford to go to Columbus for his pay and discharge, that if his pay could be remitted to him at Centreville in a check on Cincinnati, it would favor him, that his son claimed he was entitled to four months' pay since he was enrolled around the first of May, that his son wanted to enter the army again, but was delayed by not being paid and discharged, that nowhere did he see so many complaints as in Ohio, that his son entered service from Ohio when Dennison required troops, and that he thought he had a right to expect that his son would be paid without further dissatisfaction.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 163]
August 26, 1861
T[imothy] R. Stanley, Colonel, 18th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting that Buckingham send an order for a company for the 18th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to J.L. Eakin of McArthur, one to Charles Ross and one to John Cooper, both at Gallipolis; and stating that if Jno. C. Paxton declined the position of Quartermaster, he hoped Governor William Dennison would appoint N.H. Van Vorhees as Quartermaster, and that Paxton had been offered the position of Lieutenant Colonel in Virginia.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 145]
August 26, 1861
William Stuart, Ridgeway, Muskingum(?) County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if a volunteer in actual service as Company Clerk would be permitted to change his position; stating that his son had served for three months and re-enlisted for three years as a member of the 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that there were a number of men from the local area who wanted to form themselves into a company and to elect his son as Captain if such a course would be permitted; and requesting an order to raise a company.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 146]
August 26, 1861
R.W. Taylor, London, Madison County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the prospects were good for raising four companies in Madison County to go into the 40th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that the companies were nearly half made up, that it was the aim to fill the companies before leaving for any of the regular camps since they thought it better to have all the influence of the volunteers kept at home until the ranks were full, and that they would have to put some of their men who were out of money into camp at London for 10 or 15 days; asking if they could draw rations for these men by making a daily report of the number; and stating that the Madison County fairgrounds could be had free of charge to the State to camp on if Buckingham could furnish blankets and cushions and a few old muskets, that he would be responsible, and that Captain Acton would take charge of the camp and drill the men as fast as possible.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 132]
August 26, 1861
Homer Thrall, Alexandria, Licking County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he found it would be difficult if not impossible to succeed in recruiting a company if he remained attached to the 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that many of the best men of his old company wanted to re-enlist, but refused to serve again in that regiment, that their disinclination deterred many new recruits, that he was therefore writing to request a change in the order so that he might be assigned to another regiment, that if his request was granted, he could report a company ready in ten days, that Colonel [John M.] Connell had informed him that other companies were asking to be assigned to the 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry which meant that the requested change would not interfere with the reorganization of the regiment, that the public necessities demanded the immediate removal of all obstacles in the way of the rapid enlistment of men, and that the prejudice against the 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was deep and general.
2 pp. [Series 147-5: 135]
August 26, 1861
Douglas W. Walker, Westerville, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking Buckingham for something to do; stating that he was staying in Westerville because a lack of means prevented him from leaving, that during the war, he could not anticipate more than a mere living which he would obtain by industry if possible, that he could fill a contract for purchasing army horses with satisfaction if one was obtainable, and that all business was suspended in Westerville; providing a reference; and stating that he would be in the U.S. service if his health permitted.
2 pp. [Series 147-5: 182]
August 26, 1861
James M. Welsh, Glencoe, Belmont County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had seen the slowness with which men were being enrolled in Belmont County which had over 6,000 voters and had sent but one company for the three years' service, that he would agree to labor and enlist a company after receiving a legal commission, that he would have his men in camp as soon as practical, and that he had been acting as Orderly Sergeant in a company of Militia of the Reserve at Glencoe; and providing references.
2 pp. [Series 147-5: 135]
August 27, 1861
William M. Awl, et. al., Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that at a special examination ordered by Dennison and held by the undersigned that day, they approved George A. Spies for Surgeon and Augustus Hoettge for Surgeon's Mate. Spies and Hoettge were assigned to the 47th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 153]
[August 27?, 1861]
Alvin Bancroft, Randolph, Portage County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking what arms were furnished the artillery companies from Ohio, and if those companies were supplied with revolvers; stating that they would be glad to know as soon as possible since they were taking steps to purchase some arms for the men who had lately left the area with Captain Cotten of Portage County and gone to Missouri; and requesting an answer so that they could send arms to Columbus by their delegate to the state convention.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 234]
August 27, 1861
J.M. Benjamin, et. al., Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Frank Hamilton of Painesville wanted orders to raise a company of infantry, and that the thirty-three signees had known Hamilton for several years and took pleasure in recommending him.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 223]
August 27, 1861
Ira H. Bird, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Sir. Letter accepting his appointment as 2nd Lieutenant.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 141]
August 27, 1861
D.S. Brigham, Captain, Company A, Reserve Militia, Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that a portion of Company A of the Militia of the Reserve in Delaware were anxious to go into service, that another portion would go if called upon, that they had heard semi-officially that recruiting was not going satisfactorily in the State and that there would be a move within the week either toward calling out the Reserve Militia or drafting, and that he would either wait for the call or at once try and fill up the company without it.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 159]
August 27, 1861
M[elvin] Clarke, Lieutenant Colonel, 36th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Putnam, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the 36th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry would soon be organized; asking from whom they were to get arms and what kind they were to have; and stating that if they were to have muskets, they wanted rifled muskets, that their men like the men of all other regiments were anxious to get the best arms and that no regiment would make better use of them, and that they hardly expected the whole regiment to get Enfield rifles and would be well satisfied if they got rifled muskets.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 221]
August 27, 1861
Thomas Clarke, Captain, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Copy of discharge dated May 29, 1861, certifying that 1st Sergeant Theodore Lecompte was regularly enlisted in the Buckeye Rifle Guards for three months and had served at Camp Taylor from April 22 to May 29. Bears note from Mary B. Carlisle (for Bridget Lecompte) asking when payment would be received on Theodore Lecompte's discharge.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 157]
August 27, 1861
John Connell, 1st Lieutenant, Company I, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting that five mustering out rolls be sent to him at Cadiz.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 234]
August 27, 1861
J[ohn] M. Connell, Colonel, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Goddard, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To General. Letter stating that Lieutenant [James] McDonald, Quartermaster of the 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, wanted to obtain transportation to Camp Goddard for a company recruiting in Logan County; and requesting that a blank recruiting order be furnished to McDonald.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 148]
August 27, 1861
Jacob Corl, Navarre, Stark County, Ohio. To Sir. Letter asking if Simon Corl, a Private in Company E, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) who was sent home in June on furlough from Camp Dennison until regularly mustered out of service or until further orders, could enlist again without being first mustered out of service.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 237]
August 27, 1861
Hugh Ewing, Colonel, 30th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that they were anxious for the transfer of Dr. [Henry T.] Grier from the 34th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to the 30th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and for the transfer of Dr. [James S.] Cantwell from the 30th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to the 34th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Dr. Grier was ready to march, an able man and known to the 30th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Dr. Cantwell was on leave, desired time at home and was a stranger to the 30th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 171]
August 27, 1861
W[illiam] H. Gibson, Colonel, 49th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Noble, Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Addison Durbarrow had been sworn into the United States service in Company B of the 49th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Durbarrow was from New York and had been selected by his native town as a man for the Ellsworth Avengers, a regiment organizing at Albany, and that Durbarrow was anxious to accept this post of honor; and asking if Durbarrow could be released from service in Company B of the 49th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry or transferred to another command.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 219]
August 27, 1861
John Groesbeck, Colonel, 39th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Benton, St. Louis, Missouri. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that Benjamin W. Chidlaw had been appointed Chaplain of the 39th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Camp Dennison on August 20; requesting that Dennison send Chidlaw his commission; and stating that he had also written Simon Cameron.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 206]
August 27, 1861
Charles W. Hill, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Alonzo Rogers, the writer of the enclosed letter, was one of their best citizens, and that he did not know if Rogers would be a member of the proposed artillery company; and requesting that Buckingham reply to Rogers or authorize him to reply suggesting the terms of the answer.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 128]
August 27, 1861
D.W. Houghton, Lieutenant Commanding, Sherwin's Artillery, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter written on behalf of two members of Company H and five members of Company I, 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service); asking if they would get their pay; and stating that they were now attached to Colonel [Walter G.] Sherwin's regiment of artillery in Captain [Warren P.] Edgarton's battery, that he had a family at home and wanted to send them money, and that he had left home without making proper provision for his family.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 215]
August 27, 1861
Lyman J. Jackson, New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he served in western Virginia as Captain of Company E, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) and now had a company ready for movement again, that through the unsolicited efforts of Colonel [John M.] Connell of the 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he received a commission to recruit a company for that regiment, that he now wished to be left out of that regiment, that W[illiam] H. Free, formerly Lieutenant of his company, would have another company ready to move around the same time as his and that they wished to put into one regiment, that he had asked Colonel [Moses B.] Walker of the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to be assigned to his regiment, but had received no answer, that two companies from Perry County were already in the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he had been told that F[rancis] B. Pond, formerly Lieutenant Colonel of the 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), intended to organize a regiment, that if this was so, he and W.H. Free were willing to go with Pond provided they could be honorably released by Colonel Walker, that Pond had been the most popular and capable of their regimental officers, that Pond's removal would be followed by the removal of nearly all the old element of the 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), that he had no aspirations himself, but thought that the necessary implication of the new appointments for that regiment was that not one of the old officers deserved promotion, that since Fairfield County ("whence all the great men came") had monopolized the honors of the regiment without winning any of them, he hoped that it would be allowed the honor of filling the ranks and performing the duties of the regiment, that in this connection, he recommended that W.H. Free receive a regiment appointment, that he could attest to Free's bravery and capacity, that no man in the 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) won or deserved a better name than Free, that there had not been a single promotion in their regiment, that the Major had been changed, that F.B. Pond had been superseded as if nobody performed his duty except Colonel [John M.] Connell which was a decided mistake, and that W.H. Free's appointment would be applauded by every member of the regiment, every officer of their brigade and every citizen of Perry County. Bears note recommending W.H. Free for appointment to a regimental office, signed by Jackson and six Perry County officials.
3 pp. [Series 147-5: 213]
August 27, 1861
R.C. Kirk. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Samuel Elliott had been appointed Sergeant under I. Underwood and was needed immediately, that Elliott wanted a pass to Fort Pendleton, Maryland, and that Elliott would leave for that point as soon as he received the pass.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 186]
August 27, 1861
F.S. Lilly, Captain, Company A, 3rd Brigade, Ohio Militia of the Reserve, Springboro, Warren County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if his company of Militia of the Reserve could be accepted under pay; and stating that he could have it ready as soon as ordered.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 179]
August 27, 1861
D.H. Lyman, Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter asking for the designation of the company and number of the regiment to which Shelton Sturges of Muskingum County was attached as Captain, the present location of Sturges' company or regiment, and the post office address nearest to it.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 235]
August 27, 1861
John E. McCormack, Camp Noble, Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting an appointment as 1st Lieutenant of Company B, 49th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that he had reported to Colonel [William H.] Gibson for duty.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 230]
August 27, 1861
J.A. Mayhugh, and J.T. Glover, Centreville, Belmont County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that they contemplated raising an independent volunteer company to be used as scouts in Virginia or wherever their services were needed; asking if such a company would be accepted; and stating that the company would consist of not less than forty picked men to be increased as fast as convenient.
1 p. [Series 147-5: 161]
August 27, 1861
William T. Parker, M.D., Birmingham, Erie County, Ohio. Statement certifying that John Blandin, Private in Company A, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry came home to Birmingham, Erie County, Ohio on furlough on account of sickness; and stating that Sergeant John Acker of said company employed him to attend Blandin as physician which he did until discharged, charging a bill of $6.50, that the bill was still unpaid, and that Blandin now appeared to be fit for duty and desired a pass to enable him to rejoin his company. Back of statement bears a note from Private John Blandin stating that he wanted his pass to start from Wakeman Station.
2 pp. [Series 147-5: 184]