October 17, 1861
William O. Collins, Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Major John Van Pearse of Fairfield County was authorized to raise a company of cavalry to be attached to his regiment, and that he would be obliged if Buckingham would give Van Pearse a commission with the proper forms and instructions so that he could muster in the men recruited for the purpose.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 223]

October 17, 1861
Samuel F. Cooke, Secretary of Military Committee of Washington County, Ohio, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the Military Committee of Washington County recommended Joseph Wildt of Marietta for a commission as Lieutenant to raise a German company, that they believed Wildt to be a person well qualified for the office, that Wildt had good influence among the German population of Ohio, that Wildt wanted authority to recruit in any part of the State with the privilege of joining any regiment in Ohio, and that Wildt wanted 20 days.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 174]

October 17, 1861
Vesper Dorneck, Camp Nevin, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting his appointment as 2nd Lieutenant in the 15th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 89]

October 17, 1861
Otho S. Holloway, Camp Nevin, Hardin County, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting his appointment as Captain in the 15th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 90]

October 17, 1861
James M. Mitchell, et. al., Mt. Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter signed by ten individuals; and recommending the propriety of putting Major General H. Fitz Randolph of the 6th Division, Ohio Volunteer Militia into the U.S. service.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 111]

October 17, 1861
William S. Smith, Colonel Commanding, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp McNeil, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting several appointments and promotions in his regiment; stating that the esprit-de-corps existing in his regiment would not permit the "interpolation" of outsiders and any attempt of the kind would completely unsettle the harmony and good feeling of his regiment and prove subversive of good order and military discipline, and that all those recommended had behaved with great coolness and bravery during the engagement at Carnifex [Ferry]. Bears a note dated October 18, 1861, from W[illiam] S. Rosecrans, Brigadier General, United States Volunteers, Headquarters, Department of Western Virginia, approving and forwarding the recommended promotions.
3 pp. [Series 147-15: 35]

October 17, 1861
H[enry] K. Spooner, Camp McClellan. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter accepting the position of Assistant Surgeon in the 55th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 85]

October 18, 1861
William O. Collins, Colonel, 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Hillsborough, Highland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the bearer, Leroy Pope of Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, was authorized to recruit a company to be attached to his regiment of cavalry; and requesting that Pope be given the necessary appointment and instructions.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 141]

October 18, 1861
E[dward] Siber, Colonel, 37th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Piatt, Western Virginia. To Honorable Sir. Letter complaining about problems experienced in filling his tenth company.
2 pp. [Series 147-15: 7]

October 19, 1861
William H. Allen, Camp Ford, near Alliance, Stark County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting his appointment as Captain in the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 84]

October 19, 1861
Job D. Bell, Headquarters, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Ford, Alliance, Stark County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting the appointment of 2nd Lieutenant in the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 9]

October 19, 1861
Cyrus Frease, Lieutenant, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Ford, Alliance, Stark County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting his appointment as 1st Lieutenant in the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 5]

October 19, 1861
J[ames] A. Garfield, Colonel, 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter charging John T. DeCoursey, Colonel of the 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with having violated the last clause of the 22nd Article of War; and stating that DeCoursey received and enlisted Henry Harvey, a deserter from Lieutenant David Scott's company of the 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, knowing Harvey to be a deserter, and that on October 17, 1861, DeCoursey, knowing Harvey to be a deserter, refused to arrest or permit to be arrested the said Harvey upon due demand.
2 pp. [Series 147-15: 82]

October 19, 1861
Robert Hedger, President, et. al., Military Committee of the 3rd Subdivision of Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that the committee recommended Robert F. Rogers as a suitable person to be commissioned as Lieutenant in the Ohio Volunteer Militia with authority to recruit.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 236]

October 19, 1861
Aurora C. Keel, Lieutenant, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Ford, Alliance, Stark County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting his appointment as 2nd Lieutenant in the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 84]

October 19, 1861
Oscar O. Miller, Headquarters, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Ford, Alliance, Stark County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting the appointment of 1st Lieutenant in the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 9]

October 19, 1861
Henry G. Stratton, Headquarters, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Ford, Alliance, Stark County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting the appointment of Captain in the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 10]

October 20, 1861
Samuel M. Espey, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting the appointment of 1st Lieutenant in the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 12]

October 21, 1861
John F. DeCourcy, Colonel, and G[eorge] W. Bailey, Lieutenant Colonel, 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. To the Military Committee of Stark County. Letter offering the name of Charles Bassett, and urging that Bassett be recommended as a suitable person to receive a commission to raise a company of sappers and miners to be attached to the 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Together with a letter dated October 23, 1861, from three members of the Military Committee for the Western Division of Stark County, Massillon, Ohio, recommending Charles Bassett, a local resident, as a suitable person to be authorized to raise a company of sappers and miners for the 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that they believed Bassett could raise the required number of men within a reasonable time. Plus endorsements.
2 pp. [Series 147-15: 43]

October 21, 1861
W.L. McMillen, Surgeon General, Headquarters, Ohio Volunteer Militia, Surgeon General's Office, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that Dr. M[oses] H. Haynes, the Assistant Surgeon of the 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was transferred to the 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as Assistant Surgeon.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 6]

October 21, 1861
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter "urgently" recommending G.M. Bunce of Miami as a suitable and competent person to be granted a recruiting commission to enlist a company for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Bears the endorsement (October 23, 1861) of the Military Committee of the Eighth Sub-District of Hamilton County.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 172]

October 21, 1861
E[dward] Siber, Colonel, 37th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Piatt, Western Virginia. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter stating that with permission of Brigadier General [William S.] Rosecrans, he had sent Lieutenant Colonel [Louis] Von Blessingh back to Ohio with orders to organize at Camp Dennison the vacant Company K of the 37th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 65]

October 21, 1861
Benjamin C. True, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that a young friend of his [Luke H. Murdock], who promptly responded to the first call for volunteers and after that promptly took on the three years instead of the three months obligation and was now in service in the 10th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in western Virginia as Orderly Sergeant, had a chance for promotion to a Lieutenancy in his company, that he was assured Murdock was entitled to the promotion for meritorious service in raising and disciplining the company and also for service done in the field, that he was further assured by officers and men in Murdock's regiment, but not his company, that opposition to Murdock's advancement was made, that he knew Murdock to be an energetic, patriotic, gentlemanly young man worthy of confidence and trust, and that any amount of testimonials as to the worthiness of Murdock for promotion could be furnished whenever needed. Bears endorsements.
4 pp. [Series 147-15: 39]

October 22, 1861
H[enry] W[ashington] Benham, Brigadier General, Camp McNeil, 6 miles S.E. of Gauley Bridge, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter acknowledging receipt of the commission of Thomas F. Murdock as 2nd Lieutenant in the 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that Murdock would be a most worthy recipient of the promotion, and that Murdock had served most acceptably in one of the Ohio regiments both at Bull Run and elsewhere.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 154]

October 22, 1861
B.W. Chidlaw, Chaplain, 39th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Prentiss, Missouri. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending C.W. Karr, Hamilton County native and Orderly Sergeant of Company E, 2nd Kentucky Regiment, as a deserving young man of good education, sound morals, and genuine patriotism; and stating that he hoped a wider field of public service might be opened for Karr, and that Dennison had their united and grateful thanks for the overcoats.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 239]

October 22, 1861
R.A. Constable, Colonel, and W.H. Young, Lieutenant Colonel, 79th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Athens, Athens County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that they were working hard with abundant encouragement, but in a contested field, that they needed to bring to bear all the influence they could command to make success sure, that they had secured the cooperation of the best men in Gallia County to carry them through there, but on a contingency involving the Majorship, that they pretty nearly commanded the field in Meigs County, but would need to control the regimental appointments to secure success, and that they were putting the best men into the field and were confident of commanding Dennison's approbation in their recommendations; requesting that they be allowed time in the matter of appointments to complete their arrangements; stating that about the time of their order and shortly thereafter, a number of 2nd Lieutenant commissions were issued which made their work harder in the district; and requesting that Lieutenants hereafter commissioned in their district be assigned to the 79th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
2 pp. [Series 147-15: 14]

October 22, 1861
B.S. Cowen, Belmont, Belmont County, Ohio. To W.S. Bascom. Letter stating that the bearer, Andrew Smith of Belmont County, was visiting Columbus to obtain a commission as 2nd Lieutenant, that Smith felt confident he could at once get at least fifty men, and that in twenty days he could get fifty more, that Smith's recommendation by the proper county committee had been forwarded, that Smith would go by way of Marietta to get the recommendation of Colonel [Jesse] Hildebrand of the 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that he deemed it important for Smith to have a commission at once to save the fifty men and get the others.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 133]

October 22, 1861
H[enry] Goeke, 1st Lieutenant, [Company B, 37th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry]. To Colonel E[dward] Siber. Letter stating that there was no man in Company B recruited by E.J. Stephan.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 210]

October 22, 1861
A[aron] T. Johnson, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Surgeon General [W.L.] McMillen. Letter asking if it was true that he had been assigned to the post of Assistant Surgeon of the 48th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as was announced in the newspapers; and stating that he had received no official notification of such an appointment.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 6]

October 22, 1861
Alonzo P. Miller, Secretary of the Military Committee of the Southern Division of Belmont County, Belmont, Belmont County, Ohio. To Colonel [Jesse] Hildebrand, 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Letter stating that Andrew Smith, the bearer, was the same person who was recommended by the Military Committee of the Southern Division of Belmont County, that Smith was a man of good moral character and well calculated to raise a company of volunteers, that Smith would make a good and excellent field officer, and that Smith was a suitable person to receive a commission as 2nd Lieutenant.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 136]

October 22, 1861
Frederick Schoening, Captain, Company G, 37th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Cannelton, western Virginia. To ? List of members of Company G of the 37th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry enlisted by E.J. Stephan.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 210]

October 22, 1861
E[dward] Siber, Colonel, 37th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp near Cannelton, Valley of the Kanawha, western Virginia. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter stating that E.J. Stephan was personally unknown to him, that Stephan had not enlisted 43 men to the 37th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as asserted, but only twelve, and that Stephan refused to be sworn in without first having the security of being elected an officer.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 210]

October 22, 1861
George Skinner, et. al., Putnam County Military Committee, Kalida, Putnam County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter recommending J.D. Rankin of Pendleton as a suitable person to be appointed as recruiting officer in Putnam County; and stating that Rankin was a man of good moral character and of such attainments as would fit him to command a company in the field, that they believed Rankin could raise a company in Putnam County, and that they pledged to aid Rankin in so doing.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 208]

October 23, 1861
R[obert] N. Barr, Surgeon, 36th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Summersville, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding the appointment of J[ames] H. Whitford as Assistant Surgeon.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 178]

October 23, 1861
John A. Bingham, Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he was enclosing a letter received from Captain David Cunningham, Company H, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Ewing, Virginia, in which Cunningham recommended Thomas L. Carnahan for 2nd Lieutenant in said company to fill a vacancy, that Cunningham and Carnahan were both students of his, and that by giving Carnahan the commission, Dennison would secure one of the best men of the company for the vacant place.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 20]

October 23, 1861
W. Dunbar, Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending his nephew, Lieutenant Percey S. Sowers, who wanted to obtain the position of Major in one of the new regiments forming in Ohio; stating that Sowers was 1st Lieutenant in Company F, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) known as the Canton Zouaves and afterwards Adjutant and Drill Master of the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) which did such effective service at the battle of Rich Mountain, that Sowers was a young man of military education and acknowledged by competent military men to be among the best drill officers in the service, that Sowers was willing to risk his life and health again in the service of his country if he could get a position in the army to which he thought his military knowledge and experience justly entitled him, and that Sowers was a young man of irreproachable moral character, of liberal education, a rigid disciplinarian, and worthy in every respect of the position he aspired to; and providing references.
2 pp. [Series 147-15: 64]

October 23, 1861
James Ewart, Camp Ewing, western Virginia. To Governor William Dennison. Letter requesting his commission as Captain of Company E, 26th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that he did not receive his commission when the other officers of the regiment were commissioned as he was not appointed until July 28, and that he had written Dennison before on the subject, but supposed his previous letter was lost in the mail.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 165]

October 23, [1861]
John Gillen, Lieutenant, 56th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Wilkesville, Vinton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he feared he would not succeed, that he had about 30 men who agreed to go and agreed to come up to be sworn in on a certain day, but government agents had been to the area offering $25.00 per month for teamsters and his men "fled like quail", that he was satisfied he could not succeed and was willing that his commission should be cancelled, that he did not desire to be drawing pay without being any benefit to the department, that if he did not succeed, he would not charge for more than 20 days if the Governor saw fit to extend his time, that to state the thing fairly, he had not much prospect of success, and that there were more men trying to recruit in Vinton County than at any other period and he was satisfied that but few would succeed; asking if all those operating in Vinton County were commissioned; and stating that if all those operating in Vinton County were commissioned, the [county military] committee had certainly done wrong in recommending them, and that if any of those operating in Vinton County did not have authority, they should be stopped as they were injuring the cause.
3 pp. [Series 147-15: 165]

October 23, 1861
W.F. Hunter, Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio. To General C.B. Goddard. Letter stating that his son, W. Forrest Hunter, had been informally appointed Adjutant of the 62nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but as yet the appointment had not been confirmed, that his son had spent a great amount of time and money in trying to aid in raising the regiment, that his son was 22 years of age, and that he would be highly gratified if his son could be immediately confirmed in the position and go into the service.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 38]

October 23, 1861
R.C. Hurd, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had been acquainted for some months with P.S. Sowers, late Adjutant of the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) and now of Mount Vernon, that Sowers had an excellent reputation as a drill officer, that Sowers' superiors in the late service spoke in terms of praise of his military talents and skill, and of his soldierly deportment, and that from all he had seen and heard, he considered Sowers eminently well fitted to fill at least the office of Major of a regiment.
1 p. [Series 147-15: 37]

October 23, 1861
F.M. Keith, J. Edward Jones, James Tripp, D. Mackley, President, and George W. Johnson, Secretary, Jackson County [Military] Committee, Jackson County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that they learned with regret that Chester W. Selfridge failed to obtain a 2nd Lieutenant's commission to recruit for the 53rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that they had no doubt whatever that Selfridge could recruit a company of men who no one now commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant could, that Selfridge had for a long time been engaged as manager of various [iron] furnaces, that Selfridge was now the manager of Latrobe Furnace and could obtain 25 or 30 men at said furnace, that Selfridge had a great influence among the furnaces with the "hands", and they were the kind of men who were fitted for service, and that they had no doubt of Selfridge's ability to raise a full company immediately; requesting that Dennison grant Selfridge a commission as 2nd Lieutenant; and stating that they believed that 3 or 4 of those who had obtained commissions from Jackson County would fail to obtain the required number of men, that Jasper Smith, commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant, had failed and gone into the Virginia service, that Robert Phillips would also fail according to his own statement, that they had no doubt of the failure of from 3 to 5 individuals who had been commissioned to raise 30 men, and that the committee had adopted the rule of recommending, from that time on, only those who could beyond a doubt raise companies.
2 pp. [Series 147-15: 50]