November 21, 1861
T[imothy] R. Stanley, Colonel, 18th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Haycraft, Elisabethtown, Kentucky. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he trusted Dennison would not consider him troublesome if he stated plainly some of his grievances and asked Dennison's aid to redress them, that he had no complaint to make of the State authorities and certainly not of Dennison from whom he had received uniform courtesy and kindness, that on August 6, Dennison notified him of his appointment as Colonel of the 18th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry for three years' service, and on the same day commissioned him, that at Dennison's personal request, he was mustered into the United States service, that he was not mustered out of the three months' service until August 28, and received his pay at that time, that he had labored faithfully from that date to the present to the total neglect of his own business, eating and sleeping in camp and devoting his best and constant energies to the service, that the Paymaster now said he could only pay him from the time his regiment was full or the time at which he received marching orders, that under such a rule, he would lose more than two months pay, that during this period, he had received property of all descriptions for his regiment from the United States and the State of Ohio, that while he would doubtless be held accountable on his receipts, he could not be paid, that it was not right or honest, and he did not believe it was the law, that he had honestly and faithfully earned the wages requested from August 28, that his Adjutant and Quartermaster were in much the same predicament, that his pay up to the present time, under the Paymaster's rule, would not half compensate him for his outlays, that he did not accept service expecting to make money, but he did expect to be dealt with fairly, that he met Colonel [Joshua] Sill at Louisville the previous evening, that Sill complained of the same treatment and was very indignant about it, and that Sill said he would not have accepted appointment under any such understanding; and requesting Dennison's intercession on their behalf.
3 pp. [Series 147-18: 143]

November 22, 1861
William O. Collins, Colonel, 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Headquarters, Camp Crittenden, Hillsborough, Highland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had authorized General John G. Marshall of Brown County, Ohio to raise a company of cavalry for his regiment; and requesting that Marshall be given the necessary recruiting appointment.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 72]

November 22, 1861
William O. Collins, Colonel, 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Hillsborough, Highland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had authorized Wilson L. Gaston of Belmont County, Ohio to raise a company of cavalry for his regiment; and requesting that Gaston be given the necessary recruiting appointment. Bears the endorsement of the Military Committee for the Northern Division of Belmont County, Ohio.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 206]

November 22, 1861
R.K. Donnelly, President Pro Tem, and C. Lake, Secretary, Wayne County Military Committee, Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending their fellow townsman, B.B. Lake, as a suitable person to receive a commission as 1st Lieutenant in Company B, Sherman's Brigade, Major McLaughlin's Cavalry; and stating that Lake recruited over fifty men in Wayne County for said company.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 8]

November 22, 1861
John W. Fuller, Colonel, 27th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Springfield, Missouri. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Reverend J. Eaton, Jr. was appointed Chaplain of the 27th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry on August 15, 1861, and had since acted in that capacity to the entire satisfaction of the regiment so far as his knowledge extended.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 202]

November 22, 1861
R.C. Lemmon, Chairman, [Military Committee of Lucas County], Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. To ? Letter stating that the committee resolved requesting General [C.W.] Hill to nominate Alonzo Kingsbury as a suitable person to be commissioned 1st Lieutenant in Company E, 47th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 49]

November 22, 1861
James Saffin, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that his son had not reported because he had not received his papers, that his son would not have accomplished much had he been there as recruiting was going rather slowly at present, that he would be grateful if his son received some position other than that of Private, that his son had been in western Virginia and seen service in and around Cheat Mountain, and that his son ought to have learned something by that time.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 70]

November 23, 1861
M. Bosworth, Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter stating that at the Governor's request, he had sketched a plan by which the families of soldiers might avail themselves of part of the monthly pay of their husbands, sons, etc., that he learned a few days after conferring with the Governor that the Government had turned its attention to the same thing and had issued Order Number 81 from the Adjutant General's Office in Washington, D.C., and that each company should be furnished with blank allotment rolls; suggesting that if the U.S. did not furnish blanks, the State should; and stating that he had strong fears that if blanks were not furnished, there would be delays in helping families of soldiers and embarrassment to said families.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 48]

November 23, 1861
W[illiam] R. Lloyd, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Camp Hutchins, Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that upon the appointment of Lieutenant Stedman to be Major of the 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, William H. Bettes was appointed Lieutenant to recruit in his place; recommending that Bettes might have the recruits enrolled by Stedman, now in Camp Hutchins, consolidated with his own in the organization of a company; and stating that this would be satisfactory to the men.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 81]

November 23, 1861
James Olds, Captain, Company D, 65th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, per John C. Baxter, 1st Lieutenant, Company D, 65th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Buckingham, near Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Jasper Porterfield signed his roll when recruiting in the country, that Porterfield did not come into camp with him, that in accordance with an order from Colonel John Sherman, he gave Porterfield notice to report himself for duty that day at Camp Buckingham, that Porterfield did not report himself in person, but his brother-in-law (Chauncey H. McGonegal) was there and offered himself as a substitute, that McGonegal claimed Porterfield had a family and circumstances were such that he could not leave, that McGonegal was willing and anxious to go in his brother-in-law's place, that if McGonegal could be substituted in Porterfield's place, it would be in accordance with his wishes to have it done, and that McGonegal was a stout, able bodied man and would do the Government as good a service as Porterfield; and asking if he should accept McGonegal as a substitute for Porterfield.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 11]

November 23, 1861
F[rederick] Poschner, Colonel, 47th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Tompkins' Farm. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending George M. Ziegler for a commission as 1st Lieutenant in Company B, 47th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that Ziegler had a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in Company G, but since August 29 had been acting as 1st Lieutenant and given the highest satisfaction as such.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 180]

November 23, 1861
W.R. Smith, Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio. To J.F. Waddel. Letter stating that it had been considered best, in order to procure the attendance, harmonious action, and hearty cooperation of all the members of the county military committee, to appoint another man in Waddel's place, and that no member of the committee had a right to appoint meetings, to apportion territory, or to recommend candidates without consultation with other members.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 114]

[November 23?, 1861]
J.J. Steiner, G.M. Ogden, Charles Foster, J.M. Zahm, Leander Stem, and H.L. McKee, Military Committee of Seneca County, Ohio. To ? Letter stating that they were acquainted with F.N. Colwell of Republic, Seneca County, Ohio, now of the 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in western Virginia; and recommending Colwell as an industrious young man of good moral character and correct business habits and one who could be relied upon in anything he undertook.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 48]

[November 25?, 1861]
T[homas] M. Anderson, Captain, 12th Infantry, United States Army, Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that as a recruiting officer in the regular army, he would suggest that the recruiting service in that part of the State, both for the three years' volunteer service and the service he had the honor to represent, had been and was still very much impeded by the recruiting of the 60th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (one year's service), that if the recruiting officers of said regiment would confine their efforts to filling its ranks with such men as could not go for a longer period, no injury would be done to any branch of the service, that its ranks were being filled up principally by young men who could and should go for a longer period and who would go for three years or the war but for the particular efforts of the regiment's recruiting agents to obtain such a class of men, that as the Government needed the greatest number of men for the longest term it could get them, he submitted that the service was suffering injury by the system of recruiting employed by the 60th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (one year's service), that as he held a commission in the regular army of the United States, he did not have the same personal interest in the matter as those who held conditional commissions, that he was influenced solely by a desire to see their armies filled in the best manner, and that he earnestly protested against the 60th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (one year's service) being permitted to receive young unmarried men.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 5]

November 25, 1861
Thomas Beach, 2nd Lieutenant, Camp Logan, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he now had 97 men in his company, that he might not be able to reach 101, but hoped to, that he would send a full roll in a few days, that he would be glad to have a commission, that he was in need of blank muster rolls and blanks for subsistence, and that they had held an election; and providing the results.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 5]

November 25, 1861
Thomas Beach, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he had ninety men in his company on the roll, and that an election had been held.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 7]

November 25, 1861
C.L. Boalt, President, and Joseph M. Farr, Secretary, [Military Committee], Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter reporting on the progress of recruiting in Huron County; and stating that even though so many had enlisted and there was so much interference under orders to enlist for other companies and regiments, they thought the citizens of Huron County had shown a commendable zeal in the cause of their country and that the 55th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had not been unreasonably delayed in its formation, and that enlistments were such as to give promise that the 55th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry would be full in four or five weeks; recommending that the 55th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry not be withdrawn from camp before it was full or very nearly so; and stating that they took pleasure in attesting to the zeal and ability of the regimental officers of the 55th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
4 pp. [Series 147-18: 7]

November 25, 1861
Benjamin Eggleston, et. al., Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter signed by nineteen citizens of Cincinnati; recommending the appointment of James Sanders to the position of Major, Captain, or 1st Lieutenant in some infantry regiment now in the process of formation; and stating that Sanders had served in two campaigns in Mexico and on all occasions acquitted himself like a true soldier, and that Sanders would be a valuable acquisition for any command to which he might be attached.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 147]

November 25, 1861
E. Goit, Chairman, and J.A. Bope, [Secretary], [Military Committee of Hancock County], Finley, Hancock County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter presenting the name of Philip Ford for the appointment of Adjutant of the 57th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 30]

November 25, 1861
Charles W. Hill, Brigadier General, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter regarding the recommendation of a Mr. Kingsbury by the Lucas County Military Committee; and stating that he made it a rule never to strongly recommend a man whose qualifications and sucess he was not very confident of, that while he had known Kingsbury for several years, he had no means to judge his military qualities, and that Kingsbury was a gentleman of good habits and associations, well informed generally, and of good qualifications as a businessman.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 46]

November 25, 1861
Hobart Humastun, Rochester Depot, Lorain County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he was a discharged soldier of Company D, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he enlisted on May 20, and that he was discharged on June 12, on account of ill health before being mustered into service; and asking if he was entitled to pay for the time of his enlistment, and, if so, how he could secure it.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 83]

November 25, 1861
Thomas McIntire, 2nd Lieutenant, 53rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Recruiting Station, Piketon, Pike County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that they mustered in four men on November 25, making a total of thirty-seven plus thirteen recruited by J.C. Foster, that they were going into Camp Diamond on November 26, that Franklin Burger, who had been assisting him, wished to be appointed Lieutenant in his place, that he recommended the appointment as it had been the understanding between Burger and himself and Burger was a suitable man, and that if it was proper for him to draw any pay now for his services, he wished it given to Burger.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 14]

November 25, 1861
John S. Mathews, Lieutenant Recruiting for the 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that 2 men enlisted by him and at Camp Giddings had re-enlisted at that place, that he had reported the matter to the commanding officer at Camp Hutchins and was awaiting orders, and that efforts were being made to persuade other enlisted men to do the same.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 10]

November 25, 1861
A[ckber] O. Mitchell, [Major], 44th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Piatt, [western Virginia]. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter requesting that Mason use his influence in getting them out of that "God-forsaken Country"; and stating that the difficulty had been removed which brought them there, that a sufficient number of troops were in the area to protect everything and everybody, that the removal of the 44th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry would not "discommode" anyone and would restore vigor, life, and health to the men composing the regiment, that to be quartered there all winter would be equivalent to "wholesale murder", and that he was convinced Mason fully appreciated the condition of a regiment which desired to be distinguished and not buried during the war.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 69]

November 25, 1861
James A. Mitchell, Captain, Springfield Light Artillery, Ohio Volunteers, Jefferson City, Missouri. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter thanking Mason for the assurance that their necessities would be cared for by the State of Ohio; and stating that they were well supplied with camp equipage, clothing and food, that they had been nearly three months in the service and yet remained unarmed, although they had sent in requisition after requisition and had besieged headquarters day after day for weeks at a time, that they desired to become useful and effective soldiers, but could not become such unless equipped, that anything the State of Ohio could do to facilitate their equipment would receive the hearty thanks of 160 of her loyal sons, that they desired to serve their country, that their battery and horses were lacking, that they wanted six guns with all the equipments complete, that they were a Clark County, Ohio company, that about a week before, they forwarded their muster in roll to Columbus, that they had a most excellent company, and that given their opportunities, the men had acquired great proficiency in drill.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 95]

November 25, 1861
S[amuel] C[larke] Pomeroy, United States Senator from Kansas, Washington, D.C. To A.P. Russell, Secretary of State, Ohio. Letter stating that to facilitate a matter which he was preparing to present to the Senate of the United States, he very much needed a copy of the muster rolls of the militia furnished by Ohio, with each regiment by itself; and requesting that the muster rolls be prepared and forwarded to him.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 79]

November 25, 1861
T.R. Roberts, Captain, Company D, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Huddleston, Virginia. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that Benjamin P. Runkle, formerly Captain of Company C, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, had recently been appointed Major of said regiment, that he and Runkle were raised in West Liberty, Ohio, that he and Runkle had not been on friendly terms for several years growing out of a difference in politics, that Runkle had Democratic proclivities of the sterner sort and he was a Republican, that it was one of the most unpleasant positions a man could be placed in to be a company officer in a regiment where one of the field officers was his bitter enemy, that he had no intercourse with Runkle as long as he remained Captain, but now he necessarily must have, that he was one of the first to volunteer his services in the defense of his country, that he was 1st Lieutenant in Donn Piatt's company for three months, that the company was reorganized for three years or during the war, and he was elected Captain, and that he had been acting in said capacity ever since, having been in western Virginia since June; requesting that his company of eighty-four men be transferred to some other regiment, or that he be appointed to the position of Lieutenant Colonel or Major in one of the new regiments being raised in Ohio; and citing references.
3 pp. [Series 147-18: 149]

[November 25?, 1861]
George B. Senter, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General Rodney Mason. Letter stating that he had written Mason some days before in relation to appointing Charles Loomis as a Captain, that he had not heard from Mason, that he was anxious about the matter, and that he wished Mason would press for the appointment.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 12]

November 25, 1861
John Sherman, Colonel Commanding, Sherman's Brigade, Headquarters, Camp Buckingham, near Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Dear Sir. Letter stating that he consented to the transfer of Milton S. Moor of Utica from the 65th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to the regiment at Newark commanded by Colonel Wood.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 10]

November 25, 1861
John Sherman, Colonel Commanding, Sherman's Brigade, Headquarters, Camp Buckingham, near Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the aggregate recruitment of his force was 2,106, that the muster in rolls were being carefully prepared, that their horses for cavalry and artillery were being rapidly purchased and would probably be delivered by the latter part of the week, that all their clothing, except for 750 overcoats, had been received and distributed, that the armament of the battery and the cavalry equipments had been received and distributed, that nothing was needed except arms which the War Department informed him would be sent from the New York Arsenal, that the men were nearly all in camp, that under the circumstances, he thought his force should move as soon as practicable with or without arms, that if they did not move, the cold weather and insufficient preparations would dispirit the men, that if they should be moved to the neighborhood of Louisville and furnished with stoves, their arms could follow them, that upon the supposition that they were to move into Kentucky, he submitted that they better make preparations, that they should go via the Bellefontaine and Indianapolis Railroad to Louisville, that he suggested this route since they could accomplish the movement without change of cars and in an easier, cheaper, and more expeditious manner than by going to Cincinnati and there transhipping either by steamboat or to a different track railway, that he had already arranged with General [Don Carlos] Buell and Captain [John H.] Dickerson for the equipment of their transportation train at Cincinnati, that another reason for the removal of his force was that his official duties at Washington compelled his attendance there, that he felt obliged to remain with the men until their destination was fixed, and that even if the arms should arrive, it might be better to transport them in unopened packages rather than to distribute them to the men.
3 pp. [Series 147-18: 17]

November 25, 1861
H.L. Smith, A. Blake, and B.L. Lang, Gambier, Knox County, Ohio. To Dear Sir. Letter stating that Robert Lurkins of Gambier was now a Private in the 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Lurkins had always been attached to the Hospital Department and was currently in the hospital at Buckhannon, [western Virginia], that Dr. Kyle who established that hospital, but who was now at the General Hospital in Cincinnati, had offered Lurkins the position of Steward provided he could be transferred from the ranks, that if Lurkins' transfer could be recommended, it would gratify his friends in Gambier, and that Lurkins graduated from the Ohio Medical College.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 154]

November 25, 1861
W.R. Smith, Chairman, C.B. Miller, Secretary, Military Committee, Hillsborough, Highland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that as Levi Guthrie could not leave his business, they recommended the appointment of A.H. Britton, the bearer, as a suitable person to recruit a company for the 60th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (one year's service), with R.O. Ayres as assistant.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 85]

November 25, 1861
J.S. Snook, Chairman, and Calvin L. Noble, Secretary, [Military Committee of Paulding County], Paulding, Paulding County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter providing the committee's recommendations for Captain, 1st Lieutenant, and 2nd Lieutenant of the third company raised in Paulding County; and stating that the company lacked only eight of being full to the minimum number required.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 82]