November 29, 1861
John Sherman, Colonel, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that having executed Buckingham's order of September 27 for the recruitment of two infantry regiments (64th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 65th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry), a squadron of cavalry, and a battery of artillery, he was resigning the appointment of Colonel of the 64th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with the resignation to take effect on December 2, 1861; enclosing his recommendations for the organization of the force; and stating that the force was now equipped and would be ready for orders by December 3.
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November 29, 1861
Thomas Kilby Smith, Colonel Commanding, 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had detailed commissioned officers and Privates to scour the country in search of recruits, and that he now had officers and Privates with ample means which he would furnish to fill the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry without expense to the State of Ohio or the general government if he could have cooperation from the Department of the Ohio; and asking if the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in the service of the United States and under the command of General [Don Carlos] Buell, if the regiment was under the command of Brigadier General [Melancthon Smith] Wade as part of a brigade or simply under Wade's orders as commandant of the post when it was encamped, and if the regiment was under the exclusive control of the Governor of the State of Ohio through the Adjutant General of the State of Ohio.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 146]
November 29, 1861
S[amuel] H. Steedman, Lieutenant Colonel, 68th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Ohio Militia, Adjutant General's Office, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter certifying that Lewis Y. Richards, S[idney] S. Sprague, Arthur Crocket, Edwin J. Evans, N[elson] A. Skeels, and P[atrick] H. Mooney had been elected Captains of companies now in Camp Latty, Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 96]
November 29, 1861
Charles C. Walcutt, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Lyon, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he wanted Charles C. Moores appointed as a recruiting officer to assist Lieutenant William Smith, now recruiting a company for the 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Moores wanted to operate in Lorain County.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 78]
November 29, 1861
W[illiam] B. Woods, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Sherman, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. To Sir. Letter stating that Arthur Hazleton, aged 17 years, had enlisted in Company B of the regiment, and that Hazleton's father never consented in any way to his son's enlistment and demanded his discharge; and requesting authority to discharge Hazleton.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 119]
November 30, 1861
F.T. Backus, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had heretofore endeavored to get Buckingham and the Governor to stretch the regulations so as to enable one of their fellow citizens, Joseph M. Poe, to recruit men, and that Poe now proposed to accept a Lieutenant's commission with authority to recruit for one of the Johnson's Island military prison companies; asking if this could be made to work, and who were to be the Captains; stating that no better man than Poe could be procured for recruiting a company; and asking as to Poe's prospects, and which county [military] committee must recommend Poe for the service.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 184]
November 30, 1861
Chambers Baird, Ripley, Brown County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter requesting Dennison's favorable consideration on behalf of Captain E[dward] M. Carey, Company H, 12th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for the office of Major in said regiment should such a vacancy occur, and Lieutenant W[illiam] W. Liggett for Captain of Company H; and stating that Carey and Liggett were Ripley boys, that Company H had done more hard service than any company in the regiment, having constantly been a flank or scouting company, that Carey and Liggett could produce the highest recommendations from the officers of the regiment, and that he knew Carey and Liggett, and could say they were both well qualified.
3 pp. [Series 147-18: 98]
[November 30?, 1861]
W.P. Cutler. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that Captain S.F. Shaw wished to obtain the position of Adjutant in one of the regiments now forming, and that Shaw was a man of considerable military experience and in every way well qualified for the position; and recommending Shaw's appointment.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 205]
November 30, 1861
Oliver D. Greene, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky. To ? Extract from Special Order No. 15, stating that the resignation of Lieutenant Alpheus B. Parmenton of the 32nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect from November 30, 1861.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 172]
November 30, 1861
Horace M. Horton, 1st Lieutenant Commanding, Company I, 33rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Jenkins, Near Louisville, Kentucky. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he saw no hope of filling up his company under present conditions; asking if he could get men enough from some camp in Ohio to complete even the minimum number requisite for a company; and stating that he had been to the expense of nearly four hundred dollars in barracks, transportation, etc., so far and would like to have the company full for the benefit of the service and the regiment as well as for his own satisfaction, that if he could not get men from some camp in Ohio, perhaps Dennison's influence would get him a furlough for recruiting, that his letters from home said that men could be got if someone was there to enlist them, and that he had enlisted three men in Kentucky and had one death occur, leaving the number for duty at fifty-six rank and file.
3 pp. [Series 147-18: 185]
November 30, 1861
Robert Johnston, New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if Buckingham would permit a parent under peculiarly painful circumstances to make a request; and stating that his son had been "over persuaded" to sign a muster roll for the 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that the muster roll was in the hand of Lieutenant Emonds of New Lisbon, that the great majority of Emonds' men were made up of the most profligate and intemperate men in the community, that he did not want his son exposed to their influence, that although he was unwilling for his son to go at all, he would give his full consent and the mother's consent if the change was made from the 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to the 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that there would thus be no damage done to the U.S. service and would at the same time roll a world of care and sorrow from the heart of an aged father and mother.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 100]
November 30, 1861
John Kennett, Colonel, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter enclosing the Surgeon's monthly report and the daily field report; stating that he would send the consolidated monthly report on December 1, that he was detaining the muster-in rolls, which were complete, to have the report of the appraisers appointed by Brigadier General [Melancthon Smith] Wade record the value of each and every horse belonging to the officers upon the rolls, that Camp Dennison was a "lovely" place, knee deep in mud, that their horses had not laid down for several nights, such was the depth of the mud, and that they hoped to have the horses put into covered sheds the following week; requesting some blank pay rolls; and asking when they would be paid off.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 116]
November 30, 1861
E. Loring, Major, 83rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter stating that the bearer, Samuel S. Blackford of Marlboro, Stark County, Ohio, wanted permission to recruit for the 83rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Blackford had a large circle of acquaintances in Stark County, Columbiana County, and Mahoning County.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 109]
November 30, 1861
S.F. Shaw, Captain, Marietta Guard, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he wanted a commission as 2nd Lieutenant to raise a battery of artillery, that he could raise the battery in from twenty to thirty days without interfering with any other troops now in process of organization, that he had been connected with the military for over four years and had considerable experience in military matters, having held a commission for four years in Virginia, that he was formerly a member of a New York unit which he left in 1854, that he had been a Captain in the Militia of the Reserve and was stationed on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, that as his company was now called from service, he wished to go into active service, that he could get the recommendation of the Military Committee of Washington County, that having done a little, he wished to do much more for their noble Country, that should it not be consistent with the service to grant his request for a commission in the artillery, he would request an appointment as Adjutant of one of the regiments now forming, and that he had been acting Adjutant of a Virginia regiment for two years before he removed to Ohio; requesting authority to recruit in Washington County, Noble County, Athens County, Morgan County, Monroe County, and Muskingum County; and enclosing a recommendation from W.P. Cutler.
3 pp. [Series 147-18: 205]
November 30, 1861
John Sherman, Colonel Commanding, Sherman's Brigade, Headquarters, Camp Buckingham, near Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter enclosing blank Special Orders Numbers 140 to 150.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 109]
November 30, 1861
A[lvin] C. Voris, Lieutenant Colonel, 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the bearer, Captain McGee of Alliance, was a good man, that he urged McGee's appointment, that several of his Lieutenants were doing but little, and he did not want their time extended unless there was a prospect of their doing something, and that he was satisfied McGee could do well.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 131]
November 30, 1861
Jno. F. Waddell, late Secretary, Highland County Military Committee, Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that W.R. Smith was a man of very small caliber and, having been dressed in a little brief authority, it may have done him much good to have exercised it in his care, that it was a little hard, after spending his time and money freely and doing good, to be removed from the committee, that his geographical position in Highland County placed him among recruiting Lieutenants of the 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and they were the gentlemen he had been more particularly assisting, that this was the nub of his removal, that the 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was organizing in his own neighborhood with Lieutenants recruiting for it in his own town, that the 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was a live one from the beginning with flattering prospects of being speedily filled, that he was sorry to say the same could not be said for the one year regiment [60th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry] which had been a drag from the beginning to the present day and, in his opinion, would continue to drag, that all the other members of the committee were one year men, had hatched a series of lies, and cooly said his services were no longer needed, and that he had delivered his fire and would fall back.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 113]
November 30, 1861
M[elancthon] S[mith] Wade, Brigadier General Commanding, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that there were as many troops now in Camp Dennison as could be comfortably accomodated, that they had winter quarters under roof, and some of them completed, for five thousand men, that Colonel [James] Barnett, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, and Colonel [William H.H.] Taylor, 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, were in tents, that he was authorized to build horse sheds for the horses of three regiments of cavalry, that some of the three months' barracks still remaining, occupied by Colonel [Thomas Kilby] Smith, 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Colonel [Charles] Doubleday, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, were very uncomfortable, that he hoped, after much entreaty, to be ordered to build winter quarters for five more regiments, two for infantry and three for cavalry, that the work, when commenced, would be forwarded with all possible energy, that this would still be insufficient, and that no better location for a camp could be found, and in his opinion it would be economy to put up accomodations at Camp Dennison for all the troops in the State; asking if it would not be better to delay any troops which had been ordered there; requesting that all who had orders to report at Camp Dennison give timely notice of their arrival; asking if it would not be well for Buckingham to correspond with General [Don Carlos] Buell regarding an increase of winter quarters at Camp Dennison; and stating that he felt sure that the importance of providing suitable shelter for both man and horse during winter weather could not be overestimated. Written by order, Andrew C. Kemper, Assistant Adjutant General.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 173]
November 30, 1861
M[elancthon] S[mith] Wade, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that it was impossible for him to select suitable aides from the line of the army in his brigade, that Dennison must appreciate the circumstances, that the persons acting for him could not afford to do so without pay, and that it was important for them to have their commissions. By order Andrew C. Kemper, Assistant Adjutant General.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 224]
November 30, 1861
M[orrison] R. Waite, and Richard Mott, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending Major Henry L. Wood of Wood County for appointment to the office of Quartermaster of the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that Wood's appointment would meet with the approbation of the congressional district military committee.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 128]
[November? 30?, 1861]
J.H. Wallace, et. al. To ? Letter signed by fourteen citizens of New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio; recommending Andrew Scott as a person in every way suited for authority to recruit a company; and stating that Scott was a man of strictly temperate habits, that Scott was entirely responsible, and that Scott's social qualities were such as would guarantee the comfort and strict discipline of those placed under him.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 99]
November 30, 1861
Lew Wilson, Captain, 19th Regiment, U.S. Infantry, Mustering Officer, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter transmitting muster rolls of Captain Charles B. Hunt's company of cavalry and Captain Henry Wilson's company of cavalry; and stating that these companies were recruited by order of Major General [John C.] Fremont in Cincinnati and were attached to Colonel [Louis] Merrill's regiment of cavalry now serving in Missouri, and that the companies were mustered and accepted by him in accordance with orders received from the War Department.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 207]
November 30, 1861
W.B. Woods, Lieutenant Colonel, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Sherman, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that 2nd Lieutenant R. Walling Burt, recruiting for the 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and stationed at Coshocton, had reported to headquarters with eight enlisted men who were now in camp, that Burt wanted to turn over his men to Lieutenant James Stewart who was also recruiting for the regiment and had reported fifty men, that this arrangement was agreeable to the men recruited by Burt and also to Stewart, and that Burt proposed to enlist as a Private in Stewart's detachment; requesting that Buckingham authorize the consolidation of the two detachments and direct in what manner it should be done; and stating that in a day or two, Burt would return his muster roll to Buckingham's headquarters.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 118]
November 30, 1861
Joseph P. Wright, Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army, Medical Purveyor, Medical Purveyor's Office, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Surgeon E.B. Harrison at Camp Latty, Ohio had made a requisition on his office for medical supplies, that Harrison had failed to note either the situation of Camp Latty or the number of his regiment, that if Buckingham could provide said information, he would forward the supplies, and that otherwise, the supplies would be retained until said information was received.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 105]
December 1, 1861
A.S. Ballard, Major, 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Lowe. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Mr. Reed, the bearer, had the recommendation of the Clinton County [Military] Committee, through Judge Baldwin, as a recruiting Lieutenant, and that he cheerfully concurred in Reed's appointment and the appointment of any assistants Reed might wish.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 101]
December 1, 1861
A[ndrew] Gardner, Jr., Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General [Rodney] Mason. Letter regarding his commission as Captain in the 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; asking if his commission should not be dated from the date of his appointment; stating that if it did not, he would lose 2 1/2 months pay and at least $150 in contingent expenses; and requesting Mason to see that no injustice was done him.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 121]
December 1, 1861
W[illiam] H. Gibson, Colonel Commanding, 49th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Nevin, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter enclosing consolidated monthly returns showing the strength and condition of the 49th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that the health of the regiment was improving, and that, with the exception of three, all reported sick were now able to walk and to help themselves, more or less, in the hospital.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 150]
December 1, 1861
M[ortimer] D. Leggett, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he wanted the bearer, Z.M. Chandler of Putnam, Muskingum County, granted a 2nd Lieutenant's commission with authority to recruit for the 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Chandler was at present Superintendent of Public Schools in Putnam, that Chandler had several men already recruited, and that he could help Chandler with a squad being recruited elsewhere. Bears a note from A.C. Ross, Chairman, and A.P. Blocksom, Secretary, [Military Committee of Muskingum County], Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, recommending Z.M. Chandler as a suitable person to receive a commission to recruit for the 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 98]
December 1, 1861
J.B. McLaughlin, Secretary, Military Committee, Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the committee certified that John R. Brown was a resident of Logan County, a man of good moral character, of firm physical constitution, in the prime of manhood, and of such capacity as would fit him for the command of a company in active service; recommending that Brown be appointed as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 13th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery; and stating that Brown had made an arrangement with John B. Myers, the prospective Captain of the battery.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 192]
December 1, 1861
John S. Mason, Colonel, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Romney, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he did not question the Governor's right to commission men in the army and thus transfer them to other regiments, that he did not give the young men to whom recruiting appointments had been issued authority to report because they were in the face of the enemy and could not spare a single able bodied man under any circumstances and because he doubted whether Buckingham construed the recruiting appointment as transferring the man from his current regiment to a new one, that he did not know if it was expected that those given recruiting appointments should be borne on the regiment's rolls and receive furloughs for the number of days assigned them as recruiting officers, that if a recruiting appointment was considered to be a transfer and the Governor failed at the expiration of thirty days to commission the young man, he was then actually discharged from the army, that if the recruiting appointment was considered as a furlough, the young man would be compelled to return to his regiment, that the way he looked at the matter, the authority granted to a young man to recruit was not an appointment or promotion contemplated by the law and did not transfer the man from his regiment, that he also believed that it was optional with the commanding officer of a regiment to grant or refuse a furlough to go, that he further believed that should the Governor commission the young man to another regiment, said individual was then transferred by proper authority and should the Governor fail to do so, the party returned to the regiment from which he came, that the system did not answer very well for the regiments in the field, that they had ten individuals on their rolls who were absent without leave, that these individuals had no official notification of their promotion from the Adjutant General's office and he was compelled to carry them on the rolls as absent without leave and after a reasonable time to drop the enlisted men as deserters, that he had stated the question and wished to be informed which view the Governor took, and that should the Governor consider the men as transferred upon receiving authority to recruit, he wanted official notification of such appointments as were made from his regiment in order for their record to be complete.
3 pp. [Series 147-18: 172]
December 1, 1861
Thad. A. Minshall, Camp Jenkins, Louisville, Kentucky. To Governor William Dennison. Letter regarding filling up his company (Company H, 33rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry); and stating that under the present circumstances, it was impossible for him to do so, that he commenced raising the company about September 1, under a permission obtained through Colonel [Joshua] Sill from the Adjutant General of Ohio, that he joined the regiment at Portsmouth on September 18, after which he was able to get but few recruits in consequence of the crowd of recruiting officers which everywhere abounded and especially in consequence of the organization of the 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry under a very popular man, Colonel [Orland] Smith, in the county from which he was from, that since leaving the State, he had been unable to get a single recruit and his prospect was no more encouraging, that he had made the campaign of eastern Kentucky with the regiment, receiving the pay of a Private while having sole charge of the company and performing the duties of a Captain, that for the past he cared not, but wanted some encouragement for the future, that he had 56 men mustered in, that 30 additional men would give him a few over the minimum and he hoped Dennison would send them, that he had incurred expenses in getting up the company which he could only meet by obtaining a commission, that he was not mustered in as 1st Lieutenant at the time of joining the regiment from the fact that they had anticipated no difficulty in filling up and so mustered in the man intended to fill the place permanently, and that he had been Sergeant Major of the 22nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) which might entitle him to some claims upon Dennison's favors.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 132]