December 5, 1861
A.M. Poundstone, Captain, 62nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Goddard, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting four blank muster rolls; and asking if he could receive pay for expenses necessarily incurred in subsisting men and a 2nd Lieutenant's pay while recruiting if he came to Columbus.
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December 5, 1861
Thomas Kilby Smith, 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To "My dear Sir". Letter requesting some blank orders of transportation in the recruiting service; and stating that he found he could use some of the Privates of the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to advantage, that from time to time outsiders presented themselves who were willing to aid him if he had it in his power to clothe them with the necessary authority, that he was making a vigorous effort now and had great encouragement from all quarters, and that he was assured with those who had come to camp and others on the way that he would have an accession of more than seventy men within the week.
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December 5, 1861
Thomas Kilby Smith, Colonel Commanding, 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General Rodney Mason. Letter requesting that a recruiting commission be issued to Daniel Taylor who, in connection with Captain Francis, had brought 43 men into camp and who expected with good reason to fill the company from Union County and Madison County.
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December 5, 1861
[Frank] J. Tedford, Recruiting Officer, 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Lowe, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting that his men be united with those of Lieutenant S[tephen] A. Bassford. Bears the endorsement of Bassford.
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December 5, 1861
Augustus Thomas, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting that Buckingham inform him as to the order for building barracks at Toledo for the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that he had been furnishing lumber for said work and understood there was a doubt as to payment for said materials.
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December 5, 1861
W[illiam] L. Warner, 1st Lieutenant, Company B, 48th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter stating that his company now numbered over 60 men, that he held an election for 1st Lieutenant and got all but one vote, that when the company was full, he would forward a muster roll, and that he left the 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry while Colonel Lorin Andrews lived, was sick with typhoid fever for one month, and then received a commission to recruit a company for the 48th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
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[December? 5?, 1861]
C[arr] B. White, Colonel, 12th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, et. al. To Governor William Dennison. Letter signed by nine officers of the 12th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and recommending Aaron N. Channel to be commissioned as 1st Lieutenant and Lieutenant J[onathan] C. Wallace to be appointed as regimental Quartermaster. Bears a note from Channel stating that the names of all the officers of the brigade could be procured on the recommendation. Also bears a note stating that the commission was issued and delivered to General George B. Wright.
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December 6, 1861
James Cantwell, Colonel, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Simon Kenton, Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General. Letter enclosing the roll of a company recruited by Lieutenants James Ewing and Preston Faught and consolidated by his order per their request and the desire of their recruits; and stating that Ewing and Faught wanted to continue recruiting their company up to the maximum and therefore would retain the original rolls for a few days.
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December 6, 1861
Vesalius Horr, Lieutenant, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that on December 3, he reported 59 men recruited, that since then he had been unable to secure more, that he had only obtained promises which he hoped might be fulfilled, that recruiting was about finished in that section, that in the consolidation of companies or squads, he hoped that his labors and efforts would not be overlooked, and that he would be thankful for assistance from the department so that his company might be filled at an early date.
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December 6, 1861
Charles W. Reeves, Fowler, Trumbull County, Ohio. To Dear Sir. Letter asking if a Colonel could appoint 2nd Lieutenants to act as recruiting officers before his regiment was fully organized; stating that Colonel Sargent of the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry offered to send him a commission to recruit for his regiment, and that Sargent had between 500 and 600 men at Camp Dennison; asking if he could operate with papers from Sargent or would it be necessary to visit Columbus and take out papers from the addressee's office; stating that he did not wish to recruit more than one company, perhaps not more than fifty men; asking if he could get a commission extending to four or five counties in his part of the State; stating that recruits were hard to get, and that it was only by getting a man here and another there that one could succeed at all; and requesting a copy of the orders issued from the addressee's department relative to the manner of enlisting men for the service.
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December 6, 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 stating that the bearer, Dr. I[saac] Young, had assisted in raising a detachment of recruits with Lieutenant [Moses R.] Shalters, that the detachment numbered about 54 men at present, that Young expected to raise the number to sixty by December 12, and that Young would undoubtedly be the choice of the men for the commission of Captain or Lieutenant; and recommending Young for appointment.
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December 7, 1861
A.L. Brewer, Chairman, Military Committee of Columbiana County, New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting an extension of the time of Lieutenant Andrew Scott of Columbiana County until December 25, by which time he would be able to raise his complement of men; and stating that Scott had thus far met with fair success, having already on his roll more than twenty men sworn in with prospects of making up the balance in a short time.
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December 7, 1861
Julius Dexter, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter stating that on October 31, he received Mason's letter unconditionally revoking his appointment as 2nd Lieutenant, that Mason now wrote that he had no record of such revocation and that he had always desired Dexter to have full opportunity to try recruiting until either successful or content to give it up, that he could not forget that an application to Mason about the middle of October for an extension of time and change of place was refused, that for this privilege offered now, when too late to be of any service, he was very much obliged, and that had it been granted when asked for, he could have done something, but at this late date, he declined it.
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December 7, 1861
J.S. Earhart, Chairman, and S.A. Burnap, Secretary, [Military Committee of Meigs County], Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that the committee recommended the expediency of transferring the men recruited under Lieutenant James Whaley's commission to Lieutenant John Brechtel's company which numbered about 120 men, and that Brechtel's time be extended for five days to enable him to go into camp with a full battery of artillery.
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December 7, 1861
D.A. Haynes, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that Mr. Markgraf found that he was not as he supposed attached to Barnett's regiment, that it was difficult to keep together the men Markgraf had enlisted, that Markgraf had abandoned the purpose of raising a company, that Charles Schmidt had an opportunity to go into a Cincinnati artillery company with the men enlisted, and that he recommended the transfer be made at once as the men ought to be in camp or somewhere other than Dayton.
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December 7, 1861
M[ortimer] D. Leggett, 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, No. 132 Main Street (over Potwin's Store), Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking what should be done with minors over 18 years of age who had enlisted without consent of their parents, if they should be released on application of their parents, and if they could be released by writ of habeas corpus.
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December 7, 1861
Joseph Wildt, Lieutenant, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter stating that he regretted not having been more successful in raising men, but the many officers recruiting for the two regiments locally, and also for others, got the start of him before he received his commission; asking, should his apointment as 2nd Lieutenant be revoked by the Governor, if he could obtain an appointment in the Quartermaster or Commissary Department; and stating that he had considerable experience in all kinds of provisions, etc.
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December 8, 1861
H.G. Sheldon, Greenwich Station, Huron County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General [Rodney] Mason. Letter stating that since he received authority to recruit as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 55th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he had been unable during almost the entire time granted him to do anything, that his health was so poor that he was obliged to give up the idea of going into service that winter, and that he had returned his papers to the Colonel of the 55th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in accordance with his orders.
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December 8, 1861
W[illiam] B. Woods, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Sherman, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. To General. Letter asking if 2nd Lieutenant Milton S. Moore, lately recruiting for Sherman's Brigade and stationed at Utica, Licking County, Ohio, had been transferred with his men to the 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
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December 9, 1861
J.H. Bainter, 2nd Lieutenant, 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Dresden, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General [Rodney] Mason. Letter requesting a commission for Peter Sturtz to assist him in recruiting for the 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Sturtz have his station at Adamsville, Muskingum County, and that he be sent some enlistment blanks.
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December 9, 1861
E.B. Cox, Justice of the Peace, et. al., Clarington, Monroe County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter signed by ten citizens of Monroe County; recommending O.S. Thomas and W.P. Richner as men of active and energetic habits and well calculated to render efficient service as recruiting officers; and stating that Thomas and Richner were now acting as assistants under W.E. Stevens, that Thomas and Richner had recruited 24 men, that they thought it would be for the advantage of the service to appoint and commission either Thomas or Richner as a recruiting officer and the other as his assistant, that if Thomas and Richner's men were allowed to remain at Clarington, they thought there was no doubt but that a company could be filled much more rapidly than by sending the men off to camp in squads, that most citizens who volunteered would rather go in a full company than to go in small squads, that Thomas and Richner had been actively engaged for some days at considerable expense, and that remuneration for them was dependent upon having time to fill up their company, which no doubt could be accomplished in three weeks.
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December 9, 1861
Wager Swayne, Major, 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter requesting that a commission be issued to Amos Workman to recruit in Holmes County until December 25; stating that Workman, a man of worth and influence, went to work some days ago on the strength of a promised commission; requesting that an order be issued for Dr. Isaac Young to recruit for ten days in Mahoning County; stating that Young was instrumental in recruiting 55 men for Lieutenant [Moses R.] Shalters of the 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and could easily make it a full company within the time mentioned; requesting that a commission as 2nd Lieutenant be issued for Joseph L. McKenzie to recruit in Holmes County; and stating that with these aids, they should be able to get along, that they had been through a long, hard fight and were very anxious to succeed, that Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham had already extended the time of one of their Lieutenants, and that in case Mason's rules precluded granting the requested favors, he would apply to the Governor for a dispensation.
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Undated
[George W.] Hazard, Colonel, 37th Indiana. To Governor [Oliver Perry] Morton. Copy of a letter stating that some of the military bureaus at Washington had practically repealed portions of the laws of Congress for the organization and payment of volunteers, that a large number of the soldiers of the 37th Indiana were enrolled and ordered into camp by Morton nearly a month before they were mustered into the United States service, that the instructions of the mustering officer were to make the date of enrollment, and consequently the commencement of their pay, the same as the date of muster into the United States service, but many regiments had been paid from the date of enrollment and the printed blanks furnished from Washington contemplated this always being the case, that the Paymaster, Major William Allen, who had just paid the 37th Indiana their first pay, was instructed to pay the Surgeon, Adjutant, and Regimental Quartermaster from the day each was mustered into the United States service, but the Hospital Steward, the Sergeant Major, and the Commissary Sergeant, who were the respective assistants of these three officials, as well as the regimental band, were not paid prior to the day the regiment received marching orders although nearly every one of the non-commissioned staff and band had been regularly inspected and mustered into the United States service long before the Surgeon, Adjutant, and Quartermaster were appointed, that every soldier in the regular army received pay from the date of his enlistment, even if not sworn in, and every regular officer was paid from the day he accepted his appointment, that the second section of the act of July 25, 1861 provided that volunteers "shall be upon the footing in all respects with similar corps of the United States army", but, in spite of this plain provision, enlisted men had been defrauded of their pay even after being mustered into the United States service, that the leaders of the band in the 37th Indiana were gentlemen of refinement and had been teachers of music, and one of them had a large family, and that to offer the leaders of the band $21 per month when common performers under them received $34 per month was simply an insult.
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