January 28, 1862
J.J. Green, Waverly, Pike County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Special Order No. 43, sent to Colonel P[eter] Kinney, 56th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was returned the previous week with writs of Habeas Corpus, that if the matter was to receive no attention, they desired the return of the writs as soon as convenient, and that T.J. Snyder sent a claim for subsistence which had not been noticed. Bears a note from Buckingham stating that the writs were referred to the Judge Advocate General and the bill for subsistence to the Quartermaster. Also bears notes from Green requesting that the writs be returned to the Probate Judge or himself by return mail; and stating that they would have liked the Department to take some action in the matter, but they could not delay any longer as they had another remedy.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 78]

January 28, 1862
David Henry, Nashville, Holmes County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that for the first time in his life, he presented himself for office and did so without any apologies, that by watching the signs of the times, he had been induced to pursue this course, that if it was not for health, he would volunteer, that his health would not permit his going in the ranks as a Private, that it would be too much of a sacrifice even if health permitted, although he was willing to make any reasonable sacrifice for his country, that Tod might ask why he had not raised a volunteer company for the service as others had done, that he had not thought of going until recently, that in the Summer of 1861, he resided in Knox County and was Captain of a fine company of Home Guards, that since he left, most of these men had volunteered and were in the service, that he had been selling goods until the Fall of 1861, when he moved to his farm in Holmes County, that it now seemed he wanted something a little more active than farm life, that in reference to his responsibility, integrity, and energy, he would bring recommendations of those Tod knew, that as for a position in the Commissary Department or in the volunteer corps ranging from Lieutenant Colonel down, he would say that he had served as a 1st Lieutenant, Captain, and Adjutant, and believed he had a commission from the Honorable Wilson Shannon as a Lieutenant Colonel, that this was all passed and gone and he was now looking to the present and future, that he was about 43 years of age and as active as ever, but not quite as healthy, and that he was ready to act immediately should Tod have a position.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 193]

January 28, 1862
D[avid] J. Higgins, Captain, Company C, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that by the detachment of Colonel Jacob Ammen to the command of the 10th Brigade and the resignations of Lieutenant Colonel [Lucien C.] Buttles and Major [Shelton] Sturgess, he was placed in command of the 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as ranking senior Captain, that expecting that his commission as Lieutenant Colonel would be sent to him according to the rule of promotions, he bought a horse, etc., and continued in command about one month, that on December 20, 1861, Captain A[lbert] S. Hall, a junior Captain in rank, received a commission as Major, that the office of Lieutenant Colonel being still open, he made application to General [Don Carlos] Buell, that Buell ordered Ammen to report the facts in the case, promising to forward the same to Tod, that Ammen and Buell, as well as the regimental officers, thought that his claims were indisputable, that he had not troubled the State authorities before, thinking that justice would be done, that his sense of self respect would not permit him to remain in the regiment unless he could have his right place, that he had served about nine months as Captain under Ammen's efficient discipline, that no fault had been found against him nor had there been any reason assigned why he was thrust aside, that he did not come to Tod begging for the office, but asked it as his right, a right founded upon a rule published by Governor William Dennison at the first organization of the regiment and since confirmed by the War Department at Washington, and that his company was raised in Columbiana County; and providing references.
3 pp. [Series 147-25: 110]

January 28, 1862
J[ohn] C. Lee, Colonel, 55th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Kelley, Grafton, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that when the regiment left for Grafton, Robert M. Stewart of Republic, Seneca County, Ohio was out on furlough and had remained so to date, that Stewart had enlisted only on terms that he could procure a furlough for that time, that he wanted Buckingham to make an order for Stewart's transportation, take the order to Captain Meyer, get the certificate, and mail it to Stewart at Republic, that Stewart would of course only expect to have his transportation provided from Norwalk, that the name of Lieutenant Eastman was reversed in his commission, and that he was enclosing the commission for correction; and asking if an oath taken before a Virginia magistrate without any further attestation was sufficient for officers commissioned by the Governor of Ohio. Bears pencilled notes instructing that orders be sent to Republic; and stating that the oath in question was sufficient.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 12]

January 28, 1862
William H. Lytle, Colonel, Commanding U.S. Forces, Bardstown, Kentucky. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he understood that Isaac J. Carter was an applicant for a commission in the volunteer service, that he took pleasure in recommending Carter, that Carter was connected with his regiment in the three months' service, and that he believed Carter would make an efficient officer.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 202]

January 28, 1862
George D. Ruggles, Assistant Adjutant General, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To Mustering Officer, Columbus, Ohio. Copy of letter stating that he was instructed to direct the mustering officer to have mustered out of service sixteen named officers from the dates opposite their respective names (left out in the consolidation of their several regiments). Copy furnished the Governor of Ohio.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 121]

January 28, 1862
George C. Trimble, Major, 11th Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Wheeling, Ohio County, Virginia. To Captain George L. Hartsuff, Assistant Adjutant General, Department of Western Virginia. Copy of a letter reporting that at present, there were three men named David M. Baker, James G. Baker, and John Williams detained in the 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; stating that these men had been regularly sworn into service by a Virginia official and received clothing from Lieutenant Van Hartness Bukey of the 11th Virginia Volunteer Infantry and receipted to him for the same, that these men were allowed leave of absence to return to their homes in Marietta, Ohio to attend to private business of an important nature, that while there, it was represented to them that the detachment to which they belonged had been removed from Parkersburg and could not be found, that they were then solicited to join the 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that they declined and were told that being citizens of Ohio, they should go into an Ohio regiment, that they were placed in Captain [William T.] Robinson's company as members thereof and taken thence to Camp Dennison, Ohio where they were now, that he wrote to Colonel [Jesse] Hildebrand concerning these men and at the same time informed him that Sergeant Charles F. Way would report to him for the men and return them to their respective command, that Way reported accordingly and was told that he, the Colonel, knew nothing at all about the men, and that the Colonel gave no satisfaction at all concerning them; and enclosing a receipt for the clothing together with a certificate of the oath administered.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 50]

January 28, 1862
Charles C. Walcutt, Lieutenant Colonel, et. al. 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Lyon, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by twenty commissioned officers of the 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; stating that Captain J[oshua] W. Heath was a suitable person to be appointed Major of the 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Heath had contributed largely to raising men to fill the various companies; and requesting that Heath be appointed to said position. Bears the endorsement of Alonzo G. Sharp, Captain, Company B, 46th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 39]

January 29, 1862
Lewis D. Campbell, Colonel, 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Hamilton, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that they had in camp since December 15, 1861, some half dozen detachments recruited by as many recruiting officers who seemed to have made little progress, that finding the men were becoming demoralized and some of them deserting because there was no organization, he had induced the interested parties to consent to their consolidation, that this had been effected and a full company (the seventh) organized, that this operation gathered up all loose detachments and they now had no nucleus for another company, that Lieutenant Cassilly had not as yet sent any recruits to camp, that he saw no prospect of recruiting the other three companies in the region, that if Colonel C. did not in a very short time bring on the companies which he proposed to raise, some other arrangement for bringing the men of the 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry into active service would be recommended, and that the muster-in rolls for the seven organized companies would be forwarded in a very few days.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 16]

January 29, 1862
Lewis D. Campbell, Colonel, 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Hamilton, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Assistant Surgeon [Moses H.] Haines was leaving that day for Cumberland pursuant to Buckingham's order per telegraph, that Haines had been constantly in camp with them since about November 1, 1861, and had been unremitting in his attention to their sick, that he thought Haines' muster-in should be so dated as to entitle him to pay since coming into camp, and that he respectfully suggested that it be so ordered if consistent with the regulations.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 18]

January 29, 1862
S[amuel] S. Carroll, Colonel, Franklin Sawyer, Lieutenant Colonel, and Albert H. Winslow, Major, 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Kelley, Patterson's Creek, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Captain D[aniel] C. Daggett and 2nd Lieutenant A[nthony] S. Sutton of Company D, 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had tendered their resignations; requesting the promotion of John G. Reid, now Orderly Sergeant of Company D, to a Lieutenancy; and stating that Reid enlisted in said company on April 17, 1861, and re-enlisted in the three years' service, that during the greater part of this time, Reid had served in his present position, that at all times, Reid demeaned himself as a good soldier, and that Reid was twenty-five years of age, a college graduate and lawyer by profession, and in every way qualified for the position.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 45]

January 29, 1862
John F. DeCourcy, Colonel, 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Duncan, near Somerset, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that William Spangler, Captain of Company B, 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (who was absent at home on sick furlough), died in Millersburgh, Holmes County, Ohio on January 19.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 133]

January 29, 1862
Charles W. Fearns, 2nd Lieutenant, 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Recruiting Station, Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the number of recruits at last report was ten, that since then, one had been recruited, that the number subsisted was six, and that the number at the recruiting station was six; asking if teamsters were allowed uniforms and subsistence the same as recruits, and if they were required to sign the same enlistment roll as others; and stating that he had not yet received clothing for the recruits nor had the regimental Quartermaster noticed his requisition in any way, not even answering his letter urging the importance of having uniforms as a means of aiding recruiting, that the want of uniforms, whoever was to blame, had been and was a very serious hindrance, and that he hoped it was not too late to remedy the matter.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 149]

January 29, 1862
William Hadley, Whipstown, Perry County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he was much pleased when he read the account of Buckingham's appointment as Adjutant General of the State of Ohio; requesting a copy of the Adjutant General's report; and stating that Buckingham had an opportunity to inspect some of the patriots of Saltlick Township, that some presented rather a rough exterior, yet there were many amiable and worthy men from their township who had joined the army, that he hoped their boys would give a good account of themselves, that Doctor Hufford had an extensive and very successful practice among them, but did not possess the requisites for a Captain, that deeming their cause a righteous one, his prayers were that they might soon put down the rebellion and soon conquer a peace, and that he would be pleased to occasionally receive documents from Buckingham.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 137]

January 29, 1862
A[lbert] S. Hall, Major Commanding, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter reporting the resignations of Samuel B. Jackson, Captain, Company E, Joseph B. Hill, Captain, Company I, and George Arnold, Captain, Company H; and stating that there was no reason why the rule of seniority should not be followed in filling these vacancies, that Lieutenant Bacon, Lieutenant Inskeep, and Lieutenant Sturges were next in that order, that it was of the highest importance that the vacancies be filled at the earliest possible moment, and that 1st Sergeant Daniel Reynolds, 1st Sergeant Burch Foreaker, and 1st Sergeant Samuel F. Reber had distinguished themselves by their faithful and efficient service and were recommended for promotion as 2nd Lieutenants. Bears the endorsement of J[acob] Ammen, Colonel, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commanding 10th Brigade. Together with a letter dated January 29, 1862, from J[acob] Ammen, Colonel, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commanding 10th Brigade, Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky, to the Adjutant General of Ohio; stating that Lieutenant Colonel Fred[erick] C. Jones, appointed to the 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was with the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Jones had reported to him by letter that he wished to remain with the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, if his appointment there was confirmed, as he had done duty with that regiment for some time, that they had no objection to Jones, would like to have him with the 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but wanted a Lieutenant Colonel present and on duty, and not just on the rolls, and that they needed all the officers present.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 86]

January 29, 1862
W[illiam] H. Hayward, Lieutenant Colonel, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter reporting that Battery G and Battery K, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery and the 14th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery were equipped, and that the 7th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, 13th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, and 15th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery were without guns or horses; and asking what disposition should be made of the battery of bronze guns which they had.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 13]

January 29, 1862
W[illiam] H. Hayward, Lieutenant Colonel, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Dr. [A.C.] Swartzwelder informed him that it was Buckingham's intention to have the field and staff of the regiment paid from date of entering upon their duties, that every exertion was used to have them mustered in, but Captain [P.H.] Breslin (the mustering officer) refused to do it until the regiment was filled, that Governor William Dennison ordered Breslin to muster them in on October 16, 1861, that he reported for duty in camp on December 3, 1861, that Chaplain T[homas] H. Oakley reported on October 23, 1861, that Adjutant James H. Miller reported on September 9, 1861, that Quartermaster George W. Howe reported on September 9, 1861, that he was not so particular as to getting his pay, and that the staff were not to blame for not being mustered in sooner; and requesting that an order be forwarded for the payment.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 14]

January 30, 1862
A[ndrew] H. Chapman, Chairman, and J[oshua] H. Horton, Secretary. Proceedings of a meeting held by the company officers of the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in regard to the Majority of said regiment; stating that the meeting was called at the request of Major Lyman J. Jackson, that Jackson had made a statement to the effect that his appointment to the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was altogether unsought and unexpected, that he was placed in a delicate and embarrassing position by reason of the hostility of the officers of the regiment to having an "outsider" appointed over them, and that he was willing to withdraw in favor of any man belonging to the regiment whom the officers wished as their Major, and that it was resolved that although they entertained the warmest feelings of regard personally for Lyman J. Jackson, his appointment to the position of Major in the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was entirely unsatisfactory to them, and that they could not feel towards Jackson as they would towards a superior officer for the reason that they thought the principle of going outside of a regiment to procure its officers was wrong, did manifest injury to the service, and was insulting to those officers who, having served with the regiment, expected and deserved promotion therein; and nominating Captain A[sa] Higgins for the position of Major.
3 pp. [Series 147-25: 114, 115]

January 30, 1862
J[oseph] R. Cockerill, Colonel Commanding, J[ohn] W. McFerren, Major, and I[srael] H. deBruin, Lieutenant and Quartermaster, 70th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Ripley, Ohio. To ? Letter stating that D.W. Stableton of Manchester, Adams County, Ohio was a man of good moral character, and well qualified to command a company or detachment; and recommending Stableton to the Governor of Ohio for a 2nd Lieutenancy to recruit for the 70th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 6]

January 30, 1862
J[oseph] R. Cockerill, Colonel Commanding, J[ohn] W. McFerren, Major, and I[srael] H. deBruin, Lieutenant and Quartermaster, 70th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Ripley, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that Michael O. Neal of Brown County, Ohio was a man of good moral character, loyal to the Union, and well qualified to command a company or detachment; recommending Neal to the Governor of Ohio for a 2nd Lieutenancy to recruit for the 70th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that they would aid Neal.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 7]

January 30, 1862
John C. Groom, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending Captain Thomas P. Cook to Tod's favorable consideration; and stating that Cook had seen much service in the army, having served in the Mexican War and a three months' term in the present war against the rebels, that Cook was an efficient and good officer, and that Cook was well qualified to act in an important capacity in the field. Bears the endorsements of W.S.V. Prentiss, and W.R. Rankin.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 123]

January 30, 1862
W[illiam] B. Hazen, Colonel, 41st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky. To Captain James B. Fry, Chief of Staff, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky. Copy of a letter stating that the present method of filling vacancies occurring in volunteer regiments was by arbitrary appointment of Governors of States furnishing the regiments, that this absolute and unconditional power was liable to great abuse, greatly to the prejudice of the claims of meritorious men and to the service, that all volunteer regiments in service were originally organized upon the elective system of officers, that many non-commissioned officers were as effective in recruiting companies as the commissioned officers, that all could not be elected and non-commissioned officers went in the ranks with the assurance of promotion if they proved to be good soldiers and vacancies occurred, that the hope of promotion was a great stimulus to the soldier in the volunteer service, that in his own regiment, he organized classes of non-commissioned officers three months ago as candidates for promotion, that they had recited daily since and many of them would do credit to a first section of cadets, that they were thoroughly instructed, even better than many of the commissioned officers, that they had been promised promotions, were entitled to them, and were highly deserving of them, and had been educated expressly to fill vacancies which might occur, that the Executive of Ohio had seen fit to appoint a Mr. James to one of these vacancies, that James was a person entirely ignorant of the duties of a soldier, that James resided three hundred miles from where the regiment was raised, and had not a shadow of a claim upon the regiment or any person in it, that James knew less of his duties than any Corporal in the regiment, that another appointment had been made and although from the regiment, the person had not been recommended, should not have been promoted at that time, and was so promoted due to motives of some person near the Executive, and that these appointments had a depressing and demoralizing effect upon the enlisted men of the regiment and upon the service, and he could not witness their repetition without protesting with all his power against them; and asking if an arrangement could be made by the Department of War with the Governors of States to ensure their cooperation with the proper military authorities in filling vacancies which might occur among the commissioned officers of volunteer regiments.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 233]

January 30, 1862
Lyman J. Jackson, Major, 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Point Pleasant, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that as he expected, the company officers of the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were not pleased with the appointment of an "outsider" to a position over them, that they expressed as warm a personal regard for him as a stranger could expect, but of course preferred the promotion of one of their own, that upon expressing his willingness to give way to one of them should Buckingham see fit to make such an appointment, they made a nomination, that if the claims of the candidate they had nominated entitled him to the position, he should have it, that as highly as he esteemed the honor, it would lose half its value and weaken his authority if they retained the shadow of a doubt that he had wronged any of them by accepting the promotion, that he was perfectly willing for them to have all chances for advancement in the regiment and he was not willing to interfere against their chances, that if he did, there might be cause for a permanent ill feeling, that he would esteem it a higher honor to command a company by personal attachment than a regiment by force, that he did not wish to be understood as altogether declining and he did not believe the officers desired it, that they wished it and he offered it only so far as a promotion in the regiment was prevented, that if his appointment had not had that effect, he did not think any of them would wish to change it, that while there was no sentiment for him to give way to an outsider, he did not wish to remain to the prejudice of any officer in the regiment, that as he was not yet mustered out of the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he would immediately return to it if Buckingham appointed the candidate nominated by the officers and did not give him another position, that for the present, he would continue to act as Major of the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that if a change was made, he would resign the position regretfully because no one more sensitively appreciated the regard of his fellow men, and that he would resign in preference to holding the position without giving the officers of the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry the fullest opportunity to obtain the same prize.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 113]

January 30, 1862
R.F. Paine, United States District Attorney's Office, Northern District of Ohio, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was told that efforts were being made to promote officers of the 41st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry commanded by Colonel [William B.] Hazen, that he was in possession of some information which was important to a proper understanding of the propriety of some of the contemplated changes, that if application should be made for Tod's influence, he would welcome an opportunity to lay the facts before Tod, and that otherwise, he did not wish to trouble Tod in the matter.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 67]

January 30, 1862
Joseph Pool, 2nd Lieutenant, 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To A[lvin] C. Voris, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Letter tendering his resignation as 2nd Lieutenant of the 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Bears the approval of Voris. Together with a note from Pool to Voris, requesting a discharge for the 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Voris get Colonel [Otto] B[urstenbinder] of the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to give him on as of December 18, 1861.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 112]