December 3, 1861
W. McLean Gwynne, Adjutant, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp McArthur, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he was requested by Colonel [Charles] Candy to make some inquiries with regard to men who had signed the enlistment roll, but now refused to be sworn in, and that their recruiting officers reported a number of such men who often refused to come to camp; and asking if they could be authorized to bring such men in by force.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 134]

December 3, 1861
E[lisha] Hyatt, Captain, Company A, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting that Buckingham give the bearer an order to return to Cardington, Ohio for some recruits left there and accompany it with an order for transportation; and stating that this was necessary as he was obliged to return to camp.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 124]

December 3, 1861
M[ortimer] D. Leggett, 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if it was necessary for the Lieutenants in companies to be elected; stating that he thought such elections were very bad policy because they were so liable to beget a party in the company prejudiced against the successful candidate, and that they had no difficulty yet in their regiment, but he apprehended some in a few instances if an election was necessary; and asking if Lieutenants could be appointed upon the nomination of the Captains with the approval of field officers, and, if men were thus nominated and approved, who would not be objectionable to the Adjutant General's Department.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 177]

December 3, 1861
Turenne Meyer, Captain, Company I, 64th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Buckingham, Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Philip Laloe of Harrisburgh, Stark County, Ohio was duly enlisted on October 18, was permitted to go home on furlough, and had not since reported at camp, and that he ascertained that Laloe had enlisted with Lieutenant Shalters of Alliance; and requesting that Buckingham order Shalters to deliver Laloe.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 196]

December 3, 1861
J[ames] S. Robinson, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Simon Kenton, Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Lieutenant Powell had incurred a bill of some $40 for livery hire in recruiting his company for the 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that the men were all recruited in Hardin County, that no railroad passes had been used, and that livery hire was about all the expense incurred independent of subsistence; and asking if there was any way in which Powell could be reimbursed by the State.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 217]

December 3, 1861
E. Stillings, Secretary, and H.G. Harris, Chairman, Hardin County Military Committee, Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the committee requested the discharge of Elias Gardner from Company B, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Gardner was in very limited circumstances, had a family composed of a wife and six small children, and an aged and infirm father of between 80 and 90 years of age, and who had nothing on which to support himself and was consequently entirely dependent, that when Gardner volunteered, he supposedly had an arrangement with a brother-in-law to take charge of his family and aged father, that Gardner's brother-in-law now declined to do so, and that under these circumstances, it would be with extreme reluctance that Gardner would leave his family. Bears the endorsement of Lemon S. Powell, Captain, Company B, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 212]

December 3, 1861
W[illiam] 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 S.A. De Wolf was endeavoring to recruit a detachment in Granville, Licking County, claiming to be commissioned as a recruiting 2nd Lieutenant in the 78th (Zanesville) Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he was informed that the commissions for the 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were issued blank from the Adjutant General's office and the names of the 2nd Lieutenants inserted at Zanesville, and that it was a great hardship upon his regiment to be hemmed in by regiments in nearly every neighboring county and to have its territory invaded for the benefit of another regiment; and requesting that the recruiting station of De Wolf be removed outside the limits of Licking County.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 161]

December 3, 1861
W[illiam] 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 Perry Shaffer, aged 16 years, had enlisted in the detachment recruited by 2nd Lieutenant L.H. Wright for the 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry without his father's consent, and that Shaffer's father demanded his discharge; and requesting authority to discharge Shaffer.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 162]

December 4, 1861
J[acob] Ammen, Colonel, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Jenkins, near Louisville, Kentucky. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that about the middle of October, he forwarded through General J.J. Reynolds the resignation of Captain George Arnold which was not heard from, that Arnold was sick and unable to attend to duty, and wished to leave for home, that he applied to Reynolds to allow Arnold to leave the post and the request was granted, that the resignation appeared to have been lost or failed to reach General [William S.] Rosecrans, that he was sending the application for leave and the remarks, that there appeared to be some irregularity and the fault was not his, and that they had orders to march to New Haven, Kentucky and would leave as soon as teams could be procured.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 169]

December 4, 1861
Daniel Blaize, 2nd Lieutenant, Company A, 27th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that on October 10, he sent Colonel John W. Fuller his resignation as 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, 27th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry on account of disability arising from an injury to his leg received while in service and which at the time threatened to become a perpetual lameness, and that he had since entirely recovered and was now fit to resume his position; and asking to withdraw his resignation.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 183]

December 4, 1861
Lewis P. Buckley, Colonel, 29th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Giddings, Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter stating that the regiment would prefer to remain at Camp Giddings until further orders.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 199]

December 4, 1861
William B. Cassilly, Lieutenant Colonel, Benton Cadets, St. Louis, Missouri. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that under a commission from General [John C.] Fremont, he recruited some companies in Ohio for the Benton Cadets, that they now had six companies, but not enough men to legally make more than four full companies, that three of these companies were all from Ohio, that they could fill up the six companies at once, that he applied for leave of absence to call on Dennison to arrange for making them an Ohio regiment, that General [Henry] Halleck would not consent to any leave being granted unless there was a written promise from Dennison to make them an Ohio regiment, that since all the officers, but two, and over three hundred of the men were from Ohio, he asked that Dennison consolidate them with some fragments of regiments and make them an Ohio regiment, that the officers would require a new Colonel to be appointed as they would not serve another campaign under Colonel Marshall, that the command was probably the best disciplined battalion in the volunteer service, that as all their officers had been chosen apart from the men they commanded, it enabled them to maintain the same distinction and discipline as in the regular service, and it would ensure the rapid and efficient organization of new troops to be put in with them, and that their companies had not yet been regularly mustered, but there was now an order for it to be done dating back to the time of their organization so that if they were made Ohio troops it could be done at the same time.
3 pp. [Series 147-18: 170]

December 4, 1861
J.C. Curtis, Delphos, Allen County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting Buckingham's influence on behalf of James M. Barr who was seeking a position in the army; and stating that Barr had done more than any other person in recruiting and it seemed but simple justice to give him an honorable position.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 164]

December 4, 1861
J.D. Ensign, Abner Kellogg, and E.R. Williams, Ashtabula County Military Committee, Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio. To ? Letter stating that the committee certified that they were acquainted with O.C. Pratt, that he sustained a good moral character, and that they considered him a fit man to raise and recruit a squad of men, and well qualified to command; and recommending Pratt for the post of 2nd Lieutenant.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 198]

December 4, 1861
John C. Harmon, Lieutenant, Recruiting Officer, 68th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Latty, Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding his company; and stating that he had a good company, the best according to judges and military men in the regiment, and he wanted justice done to them.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 182]

December 4, 1861
D.A. Haynes, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter stating that the prospect of filling an artillery battery was much improved, but those involved in forming the battery were embarrassed for want of instructions and supplies.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 210]

December 4, 1861
J.W. Jenkins, Company H, 22nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Worthington, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if a 2nd Lieutenant, after recruiting a company, wanted to resign the company choosing another in his place, could the Colonel prevent him from so doing.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 196]

December 4, 1861
F.F. Kibler, 2nd Lieutenant, 59th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he now had a total of 23 men, and had subsisted 20 since December 2, that they experienced great inconvenience from their failure to procure clothing for the volunteers, that other organizations locally clothed their men as soon as they were enlisted which gave them a great advantage, that as the weather was now cold, their men not only looked bad in their old clothes, but some were actually in a suffering condition, and that if it was possible to send clothing, their speed in recruiting would be doubled.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 215]

December 4, 1861
M[ortimer] D. Leggett, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he desired the appointment of Alex. Sanky, the bearer, as recruiting officer for the 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Sanky was strongly recommended for a commission by the Military Committee of Guernsey County.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 130]

December 4, 1861
James A. Mitchell, Captain, Springfield Light Artillery, Ohio Volunteers, Headquarters, Jefferson City, Missouri. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter regarding the non-receipt of their muster in roll; stating that it was next to impossible to get good horses, that their own experience taught them to rely very little upon the powers that be in the department, that they had endeavored time and again to get horses as well as a battery and their success had not been very flattering, and that his own impression was that they would be much sooner equipped by relying upon their own gallant Buckeye State for equipment, but of course like good soldiers they would defer to the better judgement of their superiors in this as all other matters; relating the reasons for not going into camp in Ohio; stating that S. Shellabarger had addressed Mason on their behalf inquiring if they could be accepted by the State of Ohio and Mason had replied discouragingly, that thereupon they cast about for some other place of acceptance, that they applied to R.M. Corwine and J.A. Gurley and also to Major General [John C.] Fremont, that pending a reply, they again applied to the State of Ohio, and that before Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham's acceptance was received, Fremont accepted and ordered the company to St. Louis; relating the facts regarding the formation of the company; and stating that they wanted to find a way to be useful to their Country.
3 pp. [Series 147-18: 222]

December 4, 1861
E[ugene] A. Osborn, Lieutenant, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that his appointment as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, which was dated November 30, gave him until December 20 to recruit his men, and that General Order No. 65 ordered all 2nd Lieutenants to report themselves in camp by December 12; and asking if he should report in accordance with said order or could he enlist until December 20.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 199]

December 4, 1861
Thomas J. Parks, Noble County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he had been actively engaged in the recruiting service, having now one company nearly full to go into the 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Marietta, that he wanted to raise another company to go into some other regiment which was not full, that not being informed of any other except the 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Camp Goddard and not knowing the number of companies in the same, he was taking the liberty of writing to Dennison for information, that he wanted to take a company into service himself, that he had a large circle of influential friends in Noble County, Guernsey County, and Belmont County, and that he thought there would be no difficulty in filling up a company to go into some convenient regiment; and providing references.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 237]

December 4, 1861
A.T. Ready, New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter asking if a young man, 19 years old, could be held as a volunteer without the consent of the parent or guardian; and stating that there was a disposition locally among some of their people to retard the recruiting interest by resorting to the writ of habeas corpus, that they did not wish to be delayed in that way unless they were wrong, and that they were getting along finely within the 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 204]

December 4, 1861
J.L. Kirby Smith, Colonel, 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Andrews, Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking if he had authority to muster companies or individuals into service and to employ Assistant Surgeon [Francis M.] Rose as mustering Surgeon; and stating that there were many men now with him who were unfit for the service due to physical incapacity and who he would like to get rid of without delay.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 213]

December 4, 1861
Orland Smith, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Logan, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that by the appointment of Lieutenant Richard Long as Adjutant of the 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the company which he commanded was left without an official head; recommending John V. Patton as a suitable person to take charge of the squad of 42 men; and requesting Patton's appointment to a 2nd Lieutenancy.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 216]

December 5, 1861
Charles Candy, Colonel, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp McArthur, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the bearer, W.A. Sampson, was one of the first recruiting Lieutenants appointed for the 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and under his appointment brought in a number of recruits, that Sampson formed a connection with Lieutenant J.G. Palmer recruiting for the same regiment, and they organized one of the companies now in camp with the understanding that Sampson should have a Lieutenancy, and that in some way, Sampson was overreached in an election and two members of Palmer's squad had been chosen for the Lieutenants; and requesting that Sampson be appointed as a 2nd Lieutenant in Palmer's company or in any other company in the regiment.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 164]

December 5, 1861
J[ohn] M. Connell, Colonel Commanding, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp near Somerset, Kentucky. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he trusted the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of W[illiam] Cook, 1st Lieutenant of Company K, would be promptly filled by the appointment of Willis G. Clarke, and that Clarke was eminently well qualified in every respect for the position.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 235]

December 5, 1861
John F. DeCourcy, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Sir. Letter stating that all the company muster rolls of the 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were finished and ready for the Paymaster; asking if the signature of the commanding officer of the regiment was required before forwarding the muster rolls to the Department; and stating that the form showed where the officer commanding the company and the mustering officer were to place their signatures, but not the commanding officer of the regiment.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 166]

[December? 5?, 1861]
Jeptha Garrard, Captain, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, General Keyes' Division, Camp Near Soldier's Home. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that the Board of Examination for the examination of volunteer officers had reported adversely on 2nd Lieutenant Joseph C. Grannan, 6th Independent Company, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; and recommending George F. Dern, 1st Sergeant, 6th Independent Company, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry as a suitable person to be appointed 2nd Lieutenant for the vacancy thus made.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 167]

December 5, 1861
Oliver D. Greene, Assistant Adjutant General, Louisville, Kentucky. To ? Extract from Special Order No. 23, stating that the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant Milton C. Peters, 33rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect from December 5, 1861. By command of Brigadier General [Don Carlos] Buell.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 221]

December 5, 1861
Harshman and Company/Thomas Lowe, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that the bearer, J.W. Dietrich, was the agent appointed by their county commissioners to visit the soldiers who were in service from Montgomery County and bring any money which they might wish to send home to their families, that Dietrich was visiting Columbus for the purpose of procuring the information he needed to enable him to perform the duty, and that any assistance Dennison might be able to render Dietrich would be a favor to the soldiers and those they had left behind.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 221]

December 5, [1861]
Mrs. Nicholas Jerolaman, Marion, Marion County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that her husband was attached to the 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that some four weeks ago, he received a 2nd Lieutenant's commission from Buckingham for the purpose of recruiting a company for the 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he was about ready to go into camp with a full company and would be entitled to a commission as Captain, that his furlough would be up on Saturday, that per a letter from Colonel [John] Beatty, her husband was liable to be tried for desertion from the 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that her husband had labored unceasingly, almost night and day, in the cause and only by the hardest of labor had raised a company; asking if it seemed right for another to step in now, reap the benefit, and take all the credit; and stating that the disappointment would not be to him alone, but to his family which was dependent upon him, and that with his position in the 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he could not assist his family, leaving them entirely dependent upon others.
2 pp. [Series 147-18: 219]

December 5, 1861
Barton S. Kyle, Lieutenant Colonel, 71st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dave Tod, near Troy, Miami County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter requesting the appointment of J[oseph] E. Pierson of Captain W[illiam] L. Douglass' company as a 2nd Lieutenant to recruit for the 71st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 218]

December 5, 1861
M[ortimer] D. Leggett, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter recommending the appointment of J.H. Bainter as recruiting officer for the 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that Bainter and his friends were confident that he could raise a large number of men, that Bainter was a man of excellent moral character, and that Bainter was in the three months' service.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 220]

December 5, 1861
G.F. Lewis, Bank of Cleveland, No. 99 Superior Street, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To "Honored Sir". Letter asking if General Order No. 25, published in the newspapers, applied to Lieutenants who were raising the Wade and Hutchins cavalry regiment [2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry]; requesting instructions on how the Lieutenants should proceed; stating that the Lieutenants were not expected to be guided by newspapers; and asking if Lieutenants having less than 30 men, who reported to camp, would be paid salary and disbursements.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 210]

December 5, 1861
A.B. Parmenter, Unionville Centre, Union County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter asking if his resignation was accepted or not.
1 p. [Series 147-18: 230]