[December 19?, 1861]
S[ilas] Pruden, et. al., Company C, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. To John Beatty, Colonel Commanding, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Letter signed by fifty-one members of Company C; recommending the appointment of J[ohn] G. Mitchel as Captain of said company to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Captain J[oseph] M. Dana.
2 pp. [Series 147-20: 212]

December 19, 1861
J[ohn] B. Purcell, Archbishop, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that having been assured by friends of the 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the Government that the regiment was being steadily filled up and would hopefully soon have its complement of rank and file, he would be happy to have Reverend Eugene Corcoran officially appointed Chaplain and D.C. Beckett appointed as Major, and that the appointment of these men would inspire confidence wherever they were known and help considerably to realize the object which every patriot should have at heart, namely the increase of brave and loyal troops to maintain the integrity, safety, and honor of their great republic.
2 pp. [Series 147-20: 193]

[December 19?, 1861]
S[mith] M. Rainey, et. al., Company C, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. To Colonel John Beatty, Commanding 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Letter signed by fifty-six members of Company C, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, recommending the appointment of Charles Byron of Company C, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry for 2nd Lieutenant of said company to fill the vacancy about to occur by the promotion of Lieutenant S[ilas] Pruden to the 1st Lieutenancy.
2 pp. [Series 147-20: 221]

December 19, 1861
S.R. Taylor, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he had about 40 men ready and willing to enlist with him in a battery of mounted artillery if he received authority to raise one, that Dennison had asked what experience he had in artillery and he replied "none", and that he had secured the services of Colonel W.F. Mosgrove of Urbana and Major J.P. Cline of Dayton, both of whom were thoroughly qualified and had consented to take charge of the battery; asking if a battery was needed; requesting proper authority to raise a battery; and stating that with the promise of equipments, the company could be raised in 4 or 5 weeks. Bears a note from Dennison dated December 20.
3 pp. [Series 147-20: 212]

December 19, 1861
William H. Trimble, Camp Mitchel. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting the appointment of James P. Elliott as 2nd Lieutenant to raise a company for the 60th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (one year's service); and stating that Elliott now had 21 men in camp and thought he could raise enough additional men in Noble County, where he came from, to make a company.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 206]

December 19, 1861
Charles Whittlesey, Colonel, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp King, Kentucky. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he found errors in the commission of Velorus T. Hills; and requesting that they be corrected.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 229]

December 20, 1861
[Valentine] Bausenwein, Colonel, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commanding the Post, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that since assuming the command of Camp Chase and on account of the troublesome disposition on the part of the prisoners now confined at Camp Chase for State offences, he found it necessary in order to secure reputation to his regiment, as well as to prevent any outbreak among those in confinement, to make some essential alterations as regarded the rules and regulations of the prison and issue such orders as would securely keep the prisoners in peace and safety, and that having taken this responsibility of issuing stringent orders, he therefore was informing Dennison of the fact in order to insure Dennison's approval.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 201]

December 20, 1861
[Valentine] Bausenwein, Colonel, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commanding the Post, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Sir. Letter stating that the order dated November 18, instructing him to forward to headquarters the names of such 2nd Lieutenants as had received conditional appointments to recruit for the 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as well as to add thereto such names as he desired to be continued in service, was duly received and complied with, and that he was enclosing a list of such names with remarks set against the names.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 204]

December 20, 1861
W.W. Boynton, Chairman, and George G. Washburn, Secretary, Military Committee of Lorain County, Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the committee was personally acquainted with Montgomery Close, who, without any enlisting orders, had enlisted 48 men, that these men were now in Company B, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that these men were not yet legally in service, that Close informed them that he was desirous of being commissioned as Lieutenant so that he might have his men legally sworn into the U.S. service, that Close was a diligent, active young man, and that they had no hesitation in recommending him.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 184]

December 20, 1861
Oviatt Cole, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter presenting the case of Newton R. Olcott of Medina County, Ohio; and stating that Olcott went to Mississippi the previous winter with $2,560.00 in his possession, that Olcott was arrested on March 27, taken before the Vigilance Committee, his property taken from him, and sentenced to be put to death in twelve hours, that Olcott's crime was that he was a Union man, that with the aid of a friend, Olcott escaped and by night marches through swamps and over streams made his way to St. Louis, Missouri, that being anxious to avenge the wrongs which had been perpetrated upon him, Olcott enlisted on April 27 under Captain Nelson Cole in Battery E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery, that Olcott was in the battle at Springfield, Missouri [Wilson's Creek] where the gallant [Nathaniel] Lyon fell and was one of the 45 remaining of his company (which had numbered 84) when the engagement ended, that Olcott now wished to be relieved from duties in his company and to receive a commission in an Ohio regiment, that Olcott's Captain spoke highly of him as a soldier, and that from his own knowledge of Olcott's character and ability, he did not hesitate to say that Olcott was worthy of the desired promotion.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 157]

December 20, 1861
William E. Gilmore, Camp Worthington, Ross County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that Dennison's order of December 18 consolidated the 22nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, having 510 men, with the 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry which had about the same number, that the order retained Colonel [Newton] Schleich in the first office and gave the third office to Lieutenant Colonel [Henry B.] Hunter, that Schleich also had his Adjutant, Quartermaster, Surgeon, and Assistant Surgeon, that Schleich's old Major was only transferred to another regiment, that his Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Quartermaster, and Adjutant all went out of service entirely and he was reduced in rank, that all this was hard, but he knew and appreciated the great difficulties and perplexities which surrounded Dennison, that he now, as upon a former occasion, suppressed all personal feelings and acquiesced in Dennison's order as cheerfully as possible, that there was deep feeling among his officers and men in Camp Worthington, that in answer to a dispatch to Schleich asking in view of all their sacrifices that they be allowed to retain their Chaplain (Mr. Fry) and their Sutler (Mr. Weatherwax), both of whom were exceedingly popular and worthy men, he received a "curt" answer simply ordering him into Camp Dennison on December 25 without giving any reply to his inquiries, that they were all thus satisfied that they could not depend upon Schleich to do what was just and right, that there was a most dangerous excitement created, that he had promised the men that he would appeal to Dennison, trusting that Dennison would not require the 22nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which did its duty well in the three months' service, to yield everything to a new organization which had no claims superior to theirs, that the future efficiency of the consolidated regiment depended upon this matter, that if the men went together with such feelings of hostility and hatred, as now existed, they would never do good, that he asked nothing for himself as he was the first man in Ross County to enlist, without place of any kind or promise of it, that he now promised that position or no position, he would be the last to leave the service alive, that he would rather save his staff, such as had done so nobly by the cause as Dr. [Isaac L.] Crane, Weatherwax, and Fry had done, than save himself, that he was informed by Hunter that Schleich's brother-in-law was Sutler to the 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that this probably accounted for the difficulty.
2 pp. [Series 147-20: 188]

December 20, 1861
J. Hale, Lieutenant, 83rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General R[odney] Mason. Letter stating that Mason's letter of December 18, extending the time to fill his company, was received, and that to demonstrate he was in earnest and in for the war, he was sending a letter from the Military Committee of Shelby County to show their confidence in him to fulfill the duties he had undertaken.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 209]

December 20, 1861
Stephen Hayes, Lieutenant, Company E, 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that he had recruited 24 men to date for the 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that were it not for the time he remained in camp in accordance with an order from the Adjutant General's office, he would have his complement of men, and that he hoped the Adjutant General would extend the time so as to enable him to recruit the remainder of the men required.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 206]

December 20, 1861
H.B. Hunter, 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Medill, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter accepting his appointment as Major of the 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that the detachment of the 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry now in Camp Medill would report at Camp Dennison on December 25.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 180]

December 20, 1861
Charles P. James. To Governor William Dennison. Letter recommending Benjamin J. Horton for a commission as Lieutenant and assignment as an aide to Colonel [Jacob] Ammen of the 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Bears a note from Dennison.
3 pp. [Series 147-20: 146]

December 20, 1861
Romain Lujeane, Adjutant, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To ? List of 2nd Lieutenants having received conditional appointments in the 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and who were fully entitled to the confirmation and commission from the Governor.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 202]

December 20, 1861
Romain Lujeane, Adjutant, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To ? List of 2nd Lieutenants having received conditional appointments in the 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and who were not yet entitled to be commissioned, but who the commanding officer desired to continue with their services.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 203]

December 20, 1861
W.L. McMillen, Surgeon General of Ohio, Headquarters, Ohio Volunteer Militia, Surgeon General's Office, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that H.E. Foote, M.D., Cincinnati, Ohio had been appointed to be Surgeon of the 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry by order of the Governor.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 141]

December 20, 1861
R.W. Ratliff, Lieutenant Colonel, et. al. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter signed by fifteen officers of the 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; recommending the appointment of certain officers to fill the vacancies occurring by discharge and death; and stating that the efficiency of the regiment would be promoted by filling the vacancies.
3 pp. [Series 147-20: 140]

December 20, 1861
Theo. M. Thompson, Lieutenant, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that on October 5, he was commissioned and sworn into the service of his country as 2nd Lieutenant in the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he set about raising a company under very unfavorable circumstances, and now had more than sixty men in his command (Company H) in Camp Dennison, and that according to the directions for enlisting and organizing volunteer forces in Ohio which accompanied his commission, if his detachment numbered more than sixty men, he would be appointed Captain of the company to which the detachment was attached; and requesting the appointment.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 225]

December 20, 1861
Jonathan D. Tilton, Recruiting Officer, 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that there had been difficulty in the organization of some of the companies of the 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; asking if an election for comissioned officers for a company would be repudiated by Buckingham wherein the election would reject a regular recruiting officer provided said recruiting officer contested and more especially where a man might have enlisted quite a number of men; stating that he made application to Buckingham according to instructions for additional time, but received no notice, that he had recruited twelve men and sent ten of them into camp, and that one had deserted and one had re-enlisted in the 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and asking if he could hold him.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 208]

December 20, 1861
Lewis Zahm, Colonel, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Headquarters, Camp Worcester, Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that on December 18, he wrote regarding the resignation of Lieutenant [William] Goodnow, that since then he had learned that Goodnow's outside friends were making strenuous efforts to have him reinstated and undoubtedly would call on Dennison for that purpose, that they would bring forward as an argument that Adjutant [Wood] Fosdick was under arrest for the same offense, that it was true that Fosdick was led by Goodnow and others into a drunken scrape, that owing to its being Fosdick's first offense and since Fosdick was a very fine, steady young man, he merely placed him under arrest, that he was satisfied that Fosdick would not repeat the offense, that with Goodnow it was different, that Goodnow was "habituated" to drinking, had been intoxicated several times, reprimanded frequently for the same offense, and very neglectful of duty, that the men had lost all respect and confidence in Goodnow, and that the interest of the company demanded that Goodnow should not be reinstated.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 179]

December 21, 1861
James Barnett, Colonel, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding General Order No. 5, Section 7 which placed limitations on leaves of absence; asking if this order included his regiment; and stating that he regarded it as so, that it had been made the governing order for the camp, and that this deprived officers from recruiting.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 163]

December 21, 1861
J.H.C. Bonte, Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To Dear Sir. Letter stating that Colonel McGroarty of the 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry desired Morton of Mt. Vernon and Fearns to recruit and promised to leave a recommendation, and that Morton had declined and C.W. Fearns would take his place; requesting that Fearns be set to work at once; and stating that the Irish were anxious.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 198]

December 21, 1861
John H. Dickerson, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that General Meigs alone could authorize Captain [Joseph L.] Barber to purchase horses for his company, that if he was directed to furnish the company, he would send his purchaser and inspector to Ironton any day which Barber designated, to purchase and inspect horses brought in on that day, and that he would want a week's notice as to the time fixed upon; and asking if Barber's company was an independent company or if it belonged to one of the authorized regiments.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 232]

December 21, 1861
Daniel C. Hill, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he was much gratified at the receipt of an appointment as 2nd Lieutenant in the 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and had been informed by Colonel [Charles] Candy that he had been assigned to the company of Captain [William] McAdams, that his situation was such, in consequence of a severe wound received at the battle of Piketon, Kentucky, that he would not be fit for active service in the field, nor would it be prudent for him to expose himself to the hardships incident to camp life for three or four weeks, and that McAdams' company had, before they knew of his appointment, determined to ask that the 2nd Lieutenancy be conferred upon a young man who had been active in raising the company and had seen honorable service; and requesting that he be assigned to some other duty or command.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 227]

December 21, 1861
Colin F. MacKenzie, Lieutenant, 75th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter regarding his appointment; stating that it was unconditional; and requesting pay for time. Note: First page of letter is largely unreadable.
3 pp. [Series 147-20: 236]

December 21, 1861
B. Nesbitt, Chairman, and W.M. Stark, Secretary, [Greene County Military Committee], Xenia, Greene County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter recommending the apointment of George Kleder as assistant to recruit for the 10th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery. Approved by Granville Moody, Colonel, 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 215]

December 21, 1861
George W. Pepper, Keene, Coshocton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter stating that he had made application for the position of Chaplain of the 51st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but lost by one vote, that his friends immediately recommended that he apply for a commission to recruit a company for the 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that this was a new sphere for him, yet he commenced, and now had enrolled and sworn in at Camp Meigs more than seventy moral and vigorous young men, and that he expected in the course of the week to have the company filled; requesting that his commission be extended a week or two; and stating that the late order of the Adjutant General, although designed for good, retarded recruiting, that there were two recruiting officers who had their commissions six weeks earlier than he did, and had no more men enlisted, that he was a native of Ireland, and educated at one of her colleges, that at present, he was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and that because Columbia helped Ireland in the famine year, he now desired to befriend the land of Washington and Franklin.
2 pp. [Series 147-20: 224]

December 21, 1861
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding Buckingham's order of November 26, which stated that should the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry be consolidated with any other, its condition on that day would be the basis upon which its position would be determined; and stating that in view of this assurance, he begged leave on behalf of the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and himself to enter his protest against any action or orders from the Adjutant General's department having in view the consolidation of the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry with any other organization having a less number of enlisted men through which the identity of said regiment would be lost or merged into that of any other, that there were now enlisted and would be ready for mustering in by December 23, nearly seven hundred recruits, and that at the present time, the regiment was in better condition and had a fairer prospect of being filled to its full complement than at any previous time.
2 pp. [Series 147-20: 199]

December 21, 1861
Edwin D. Saunders, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Assistant Adjutant General Rodney Mason. Letter stating that he had just seen Caleb Bates who had authority to raise a battery of artillery and wanted him to assist; asking whether recruiting for this battery would be allowed after January 1; stating that the impression prevailed that all recruiting after that time must be done through Major McCrae, the State agent at Columbus, and that outside recruiting would not be allowed; asking if those who assisted Bates in raising the battery would get their commissions, and if any money was allowed by the State for recruiting expenses; and stating that since leaving the three months' service, he had spent all his funds and would have to borrow money to obtain an outfit, and that although he desired to enter the service again, he wanted to see his way clear before going back into recruiting.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 226]

December 22, 1861
Charles Whittlesey, Colonel, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp King, near Covington, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the only 2nd Lieutenant he knew of entitled to a commission in the 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on account of success in recruiting, was Sergeant P[eter] Weatherby of Company A who declined it; regarding the progress of companies; and stating that they were wholly at a loss what to do as they saw no prospect of assignments to them, and that the Quartermaster declined to furnish transportation or other expenses for recruiting service and they had no orders from Buckingham's office respecting it.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 230]

Undated [date not decipherable]
Thomas Whyte, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor William Dennison. Letter applying for a position in the Quartermaster Department or Commissary Department; and stating that he had a wife to support. Damaged document. Contents not decipherable in places.
2 pp. [Series 147-20: 5]

Undated [date not decipherable]
Letter fragment. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Damaged document. Contents not decipherable.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 4]

Undated
Notes regarding certain appointments in Company B, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Bears a note from Governor William Dennison.
1 p. [Series 147-20: 88]