Ohio History Connection

November 21, [1861]
A.B. Ensey, Captain, Company G, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he was informed they were to be paid from the date of their muster roll and ranked from the date of muster, that he and his company had not been mustered since August 4, that if this muster was good for nothing, his company was not mustered into service, that his company was full on September 1, that the present date of muster was not to affect the first either in pay or rank, that if he was not to be paid and ranked from the date of muster, their company would be broken up as that was the only time they had been mustered, that if it was in Buckingham's power to right the matter, it would confer a favor on them, that if the matter could not be righted, the company would be broken up as there was no power to hold the men, that his time had been entirely consumed with the company since July 4, and that if they were to be ranked and paid according to the last order, they had better quit and look to their families.
2 pp. [Series 147-17: 126]

November 21, 1861
R[obert] S. Granger, Major, 5th Infantry, Commanding Camp, Headquarters, Sherman's Brigade, Camp Buckingham, near Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting that a general court martial be ordered to convene at Camp Buckingham for the trial of Private J[ohn] Shroads, 6th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Private George Bullman, Company K, 64th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and such other prisoners as might be brought before it; and listing those officers stationed at Camp Buckingham who would be available for a general court martial. The letter is in the handwriting of John Sherman.
2 pp. [Series 147-17: 233]

November 21, 1861
William Hamilton, Lieutenant, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting suspension of a decision on the petition signed by certain of his recruits, asking to be transferred to Lieutenant McAdams' company, until he had an opportunity of being heard in the matter.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 157]

November 21, 1861
M[ortimer] D. Leggett, Headquarters, 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, No. 132 Main Street, (over Potwin's Store), Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he wanted the appointment of Henry H. Lingo as recruiting officer for the 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Lingo wanted to recruit in Monroe County, Noble County, and Belmont County; recommending the appointment of William Wheeler as Lingo's assistant; and stating that Lingo and Wheeler were excellent men and would recruit, if anybody could, in their neighborhood.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 119]

November 21, 1861
M[ortimer] D. Leggett, Headquarters, 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, No. 132 Main Street, (over Potwin's Store), Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that for want of clothing, they could not take any men into camp until November 20, that this accounted for their apparent neglect to furnish field reports, that the first report would be made on November 22, and regularly thereafter, that they were recruiting rapidly considering that they had no clothing of any kind to furnish recruits, that their clothing would be there that evening or the next morning, and that this would aid them greatly.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 131]

November 21, 1861
R.C. Lemmon, Chairman, Military Committee of Lucas County, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. To [Governor William Dennison]. Letter stating that the committee recommended that Alonzo Kingsberry of Toledo be commissioned as 1st Lieutenant in Company E, 47th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in place of Lieutenant H.A. Egbert deceased, that C.P. Shaffer be appointed to assist Lewis Butler in recruiting a company for the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Reverend J[ohn] Crabbe be appointed Chaplain of the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that it had been shown to the committee that Lieutenant Colonel J.N. Hathaway of the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had refused to act in subordination to Colonel [Otto] Burstenbinder and to cooperate with others in recruiting said regiment, that the committee was satisfied that Hathaway would, if suffered to retain his connection with said regiment, embarrass its organization and impair its efficiency, and that for the stated reasons as well as for other causes, the committee requested the Governor to disconnect Hathaway from said regiment.
3 pp. [Series 147-17: 203]

November 21, 1861
R.J. Morrison, Third Auditor's Office. To Governor William Dennison. Letter enclosing a copy of a circular letter addressed to Dennison last month and concerning which they spoke that morning; and stating that he would be obliged if Dennison would direct the information to be furnished by the proper departments at their earliest convenience.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 224]

November 21, 1861
C.W. Potwin, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking what the State paid for round shot and shell at the time it was purchasing, and if there was a regulation price and what it was; stating that they were prepared to manufacture 1 or 2,000 tons as low as any western parties; and asking where they should apply.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 165]

November 21, 1861
Elias Rutter, Belleville, Richland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he understood the army wanted some additional wagon masters; requesting that Buckingham assist him in getting such a situation; and stating that he understood the wagon master had to raise twenty-five men, and that he could do this in a short time.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 146]

November 21, 1861
W.W. Scarborough, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding the pay of F[rederick] W. Lister who served as Lieutenant, Sergeant Major, and Adjutant in the 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Major in the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Drillmaster of Camp Chase.
2 pp. [Series 147-17: 148]

November 21, 1861
John Sherman, Colonel Commanding, Headquarters, Sherman's Brigade, Camp Buckingham, near Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if he had not better direct the muster-in rolls of all the companies over the minimum number to be formally made out and the non-commissioned officers designated; stating that after November 23, no furloughs were to be granted and all now granted would expire at that time, that they were preparing to be ready for Buckingham's orders to move by November 28, but hoped the force would go together, that on November 25 or 26, they proposed to designate the sutlers and chaplains under the regulations, that early next week he would call and see the Governor in regard to the other positions, that their overcoats had arrived, and that the arms had been promised and they looked for them daily; asking if his organization of the companies would be approved, and when commissions would be issued to the officers; requesting blank certificates for non-commissioned officers; stating that he had used but one of Buckingham's appointments for assistant recruiting lieutenants; inviting Buckingham, the Governor, and such other gentlemen as they might choose, to visit; stating that Jacob H. Kling of Company E, 64th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who had been acting as Quartermaster Sergeant since October 15, had been appointed as bookkeeper; and requesting that Buckingham order Kling's discharge from his enlistment.
2 pp. [Series 147-17: 149B]

November 21, 1861
John Sherman, Colonel Commanding, Headquarters, Sherman's Brigade, Camp Buckingham, near Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he was under embarrassment over a case upon which he wished Buckingham's immediate decision, that Eli Slocum, William Labaugh, William Tuttle, William Sheets, and three other respectable citizens of Ashland County signed a muster roll with the common understanding that they were all to go and be sworn in together, that they then assisted in recruiting others, that some of them came into camp, drew rations, but were never sworn in, that the muster roll signed by them was handed over to Orlon Smith, the recruiting Lieutenant, but was subsequently in the possession of Eli Slocum and was probably destroyed, that Smith insisted upon an order to arrest them and bring them to camp, and that he wished no mistake and was submitting the case for Buckingham's decision.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 149C]

November 21, 1861
Jno. F. Waddel, Secretary, Military Committee of Highland County, Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Lieutenant Burket and Lieutenant Stephenson of the 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry wanted to combine the men they had respectively enlisted as one company, that Burket and Stephenson had made an arrangement between themselves that Burket would receive a commission as Captain and Stephenson as 1st Lieutenant, that this arrangement met with the full approval of the committee, which recommended Burket and Stephenson as qualified for the positions they requested, and that the committee was not aware of any power it had in the matter and only expressed the desire of Burket and Stephenson.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 161]

November 21, 1861
Charles C. Walcutt, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Lyon. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that William R. Lawrence had been recommended as an active and popular man in Van Wert County and that Dr. William Smith, who had a Lieutenant's appointment, was very anxious to have Lawrence's assistance, and that he therefore recommended Lawrence's appointment as a recruiting officer to assist in filling Dr. Smith's company for the 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 100]

November 21, 1861
W.W. Webb, Recruiting Officer, Camp Andrews, Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General. Letter enclosing the names of two recruits reported by him in addition to those already upon the Adjutant General's rolls; and stating that it was not the number required to secure a commission as 1st Lieutenant, but he still hoped his application would not be entirely overlooked, and that he had the full number of thirty on his rolls, as on paper, but found it utterly impossible to bring them into camp.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 175]

November 21, 1861
Charles Whittlesey, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had evidence of measures underway in Buckingham's office to retard the completion of his regiment [20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry], that one such measure was a personal slander upon himself, and that before he gave the measure full credence, he was offering Buckingham an opportunity to deny it; asking, when Captain [John] Wiseman wanted to attach his company to the 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry instead of Colonel [Thomas] Worthington's regiment [46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry], if Buckingham urged him not to do it after issuing an order permitting such a transfer; asking, when Captain Wiseman made reference to reports of intemperance against Colonel Worthington, did or did not Buckingham state or insinuate that the Colonel of the 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in this respect no better; and stating that under the order of November 16, regiments not full by November 25 might be disintegrated, and thus Buckingham might break up the 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry after having prevented its filling up.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 149A]

November 22, 1861
R[alph] P. Buckland, Colonel, 72nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Croghan, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he desired the appointment of W.A. Strong of Elmore, Ottawa County as an assistant to Lieutenant J.H. Blinn for recruiting, that Strong and Blinn were located some distance apart, and that he knew Strong to be a good man.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 211]

November 22, 1861
J[oseph] R. Cockerill, Colonel Commanding, 70th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Hamer, West Union, Adams County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that Captains [William B.] Brown, [James F.] Summers, and [Reason T.] Naylor, 1st Lieutenants [Louis] Love, [Samuel G.] Richards, and [Valentine] Zimmerman, and 2nd Lieutenants [Brice] Cooper, [William P.] Spurgeon, and [William R.] Steuart had all reported to him at Camp Hamer and were performing their respective duties in the 70th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 194]

November 22, 1861
T.J. Davis, Licking County Military Committee, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking by whose authority an order to recruit a company for a regiment located in Zanesville was given to a gentleman named DeWolf in Granville, Licking County; stating that DeWolf's activities were hurting their efforts to fill the 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and asking if DeWolf's order was regular since the matter had not been referred to the committee for its endorsement.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 172]

November 22, 1861
J.R. Day, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that after due deliberation, he considered it his duty to decline the appointment of Major of cavalry which Buckingham had tendered him; thanking Buckingham for the offer; and extending his earnest wishes for the success of arms.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 177]

November 22, 1861
John F. DeCourcy, Colonel, 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Tiffin, Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that with a view to a more perfect "holding" of the men who had lately joined the regiment much against their will, he recommended that the Mustering Officer be ordered by Buckingham to visit the camp and finally muster in the 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Buckingham would confer a great favor by informing him whether he was likewise to be mustered in; and reminding Buckingham that he had received a commission as Lieutenant Colonel in the 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry on September 21, and had subscribed and taken the oath on the same day.
2 pp. [Series 147-17: 181]

November 22, 1861
John F. DeCourcy, Colonel, 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Tiffin, Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Mr. Harn now believed that there would be some difficulty in filling the 10th company of the regiment, that Harn's exertions had been great, but he did not hope for an equivalent success in the time required by Buckingham, that he did not feel inclined to recommend that any more time be granted Harn, that he regretted very much losing the services of Harn, but his particular interest must give way before a larger and a more general one, that Harn showed a graceful disposition in the present matter, that the disposal of Mr. Douglas as Captain and the keeping together of his men would be done according to Buckingham's orders, that no difficulty would be experienced in the matters of Harn and Douglas, that the question of the Lieutenancies was not so easily disposed of, that Mr. Jones felt very strongly on the matter and expected the 1st Lieutenancy for himself, that Jones likewise deemed that his 60 men had a right to the other Lieutenancy and a large proportion of the non-commissioned officers, and that so long as the regiment remained at Camp Tiffin, most of the matters mentioned would have to be treated in a diplomatic rather than a military mode; and recommending that Douglas and his sixty men not be ordered to join his command until the regiment had marched to and taken up other quarters.
3 pp. [Series 147-17: 181]

November 22, 1861
Joel Deney, Adjutant, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he was at present acting as Adjutant of the regiment, having been appointed to the position by the Governor, that he was the only real American representative of a large American element in the regiment, and that the regiment would be more than half full within the ten days alloted to complete unfilled organizations; asking if he could hold his present post provided a consolidation of regiments took place; and stating that unless such was the case, he ought not to go to further expense, and that his former military drill gave him the appointment and he had hoped to merit and hold it.
2 pp. [Series 147-17: 176]

November 22, 1861
H.W. Deshler, Recruiting Lieutenant, 79th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Wool, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had enlisted Henry Zimmerman, who was eighteen years old, that Zimmerman mustered into U.S. service on October 23 and was subsisted at the expense of the Government until November 12, when he deserted Deshler's company, that Zimmerman was persuaded by members of the 22nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to leave Deshler's company and go with them under Captain N[athan] Pickett, that Zimmerman was mustered into the 22nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and clothed by a recruiting officer for that regiment, that Pickett and at least one of Pickett's Lieutenants, by willful misrepresentation, had caused him great embarrassment as their course had been an injury to recruiting generally in the area, that he hoped the matter would be speedily attended to as it had already made trouble in his company, and that some in his company had commented that if one man could go into another regiment and be clothed, they would do the same.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 196]

November 22, 1861
R.R. Donnelly, Chairman Pro Tem, and C. Lake, Secretary, Wayne County Military Committee, Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that, in the opinion of the committee, 1st Lieutenant [Hiram M.] Shaffer, elected in Captain [Addison] McClure's company, 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was incompetent and morally unworthy of the position; and recommending that Dennison refuse Shaffer a commission.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 204]

November 22, 1861
W. Hoffman, Lieutenant Colonel, 8th Regiment, New York Volunteers, Commissary General of Prisoners, Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he omitted to say, in connection with the organization of the company for the depot, that he would prefer to have them armed with percussion muskets suitable for ball and buckshot cartridges, a better sort of ammunition for the purpose than the single ball, that the Captain of the company would find instructions for his guidance upon arrival and if the weather continued favorable, the barracks would be ready for his reception, that it was part of his plan, in order to provide more perfect security of the prisoners, to have a company of home guards organized in Sandusky and prepared to give assistance in any emergency, that there were gentlemen locally who would make up the company if they could be provided with arms and accoutrements, about which he imagined there would be no difficulty as there was a manifest propriety in the arrangement, that he would be indebted to Buckingham if the matter was brought to the attention of Governor William Dennison, that from what he had seen and heard of Captain Bailey, he was induced to believe that Bailey would make a very good Captain for the company of home guards, and that if any further action was necessary on his part to secure arms and accoutrements for the company, he would be happy to attend to it; requesting that Buckingham furnish him with the names of all the prisoners who had made efforts to establish their loyalty to the Union and of those who wished to do so, along with their place of residence and the names of those who would vouch for them; and stating that he wanted to make inquiries in their behalf and, if there were good Union men among them, have them released.
3 pp. [Series 147-17: 226]

November 22, 1861
W.S. Huston, Quartermaster, 56th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Morrow, near Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if he could employ a clerk in the Quartermaster's Department of the 56th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as there was no Quartermaster or Commissary Sergeant yet appointed, if he could detail a man or men from the companies of the regiment to assist him in the discharge of his duties and allow him or them extra pay as extra duty men, and if the men detailed for extra duty for more than 10 days would be allowed extra pay.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 195]

November 22, 1861
John E. Jewett, Adjutant, 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Goddard, near Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Lieutenant Colonel [Mortimer D.] Leggett of the 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry directed him to say, in regard to the enclosed field report, that it did not contain the whole number of men enlisted for the regiment, but merely those who were now in camp, and that there would be another company in camp as soon as their clothing came, that he could find no one versed in the duties of the Adjutant sufficiently well to inform him whether the report was according to the usual mode of rendering or not, and that he was uncertain as to the correctness of the report's details.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 209]

November 22, 1861
R.C. Lemmon, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. To General C.W. Hill, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. Letter enclosing a certificate from the proceedings of the Lucas County Military Committee; and stating that [James H.] Boggis had the appointment of Adjutant in Colonel [John W.] Fuller's regiment [27th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry] and could not therefore accept the appointment in question, that Mr. K was for 5 years a member of the Toledo Guards and had been giving undivided attention to military discipline since June 1, that for some time past, Mr. K had been engaged in disciplining recruits raised for the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Mr. K was regarded as a well drilled young man.
2 pp. [Series 147-17: 223]

November 22, 1861
George W. McNeil, Chairman Pro Tem, and H. McKinney, Secretary, [Military Committee of Summit County]. To ? Letter recommending Edward H. Viers as a recruiting officer to assist Deming N. Lowrey for the 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; certifying that Viers was a person of good moral character and promised sufficient qualities to command a company; and stating that they would assist Viers in recruiting for the company. Bears the endorsement of A[lvin] C. Voris, Lieutenant Colonel, 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 199]

November 22, [1861]
Amelia M. Osborn, Fitchville, Huron County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting information concerning payment of soldiers; stating that she saw an article in the newspaper which noted that a soldier's wife could draw her husband's money, and that if this was so, she wanted to know how and where the money could be received, that her husband was a soldier in Company C of the 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but now was a prisoner in Richmond and had been since August 26, that her husband had been in service since June 30, that he had not received any money when he was taken prisoner, and that he had intended to send her money when he did get paid; and requesting Buckingham's aid.
2 pp. [Series 147-17: 166]

November 22, 1861
Arthur E. Pierce, Office of the Quartermaster, Jefferson City, Missouri. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that on October 4, he was mustered in as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to go into Camp Oliver at Toledo, with his recruiting station at Perrysburg, Wood County, that he failed to recruit a sufficient number of men to retain his commission, but made most diligent efforts to do so, that he had reported to Buckingham from time to time as ordered, and that he had expended about $50 for the cause and did not expect to have it refunded; and asking if he could draw pay for the time served (20 days) as a compensation for the time and money expended.
1 p. [Series 147-17: 212]

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