February 4, 1862
James Barnett, Colonel Commanding, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that in answer to Buckingham's letter of January 18, asking why Lieutenant Houghton did not secure a position in the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, he would refer Buckingham to Special Orders No. 926 and 930 of the Adjutant General's series, that Houghton was appointed a 1st Lieutenant in the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery and mustered in as such, that [Stephen W.] Dorsey was appointed and mustered as 1st Lieutenant in Company E of the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery at the same time with the other commissioned officers of that company, that by Special Order No. 926, Buckingham assigned Houghton to Company E and Dorsey to Company H, that by the subsequent order (No. 930), this action was rescinded and Dorsey was ordered to retain his original position in Company E, that this left Houghton without a position and there was now no vacancy for him, and that other reasons rendered Houghton's removal from the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery a necessity.
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February 4, 1862
James Barnett, Colonel Commanding, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Buckingham's order of February 1, to move the other battery of Wiard guns as soon as ammunition arrived, was received, that as they had only one more battery now in camp, he wanted it ordered into the field at the same time with instructions to report to General [Don Carlos] Buell or General [William S.] Rosecrans as Buckingham deemed best, and that the battery ordered to move would be ready on the receipt of the ammunition.
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February 4, 1862
B.F. Coates, Senate Chamber. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that as there were a number of vacancies of commissioned officers in the 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he called Tod's attention to Sergeant David Thomas of Company D, and asked that Thomas be promoted to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, that when the rebellion broke out, Thomas separated himself from a young and dependent family, just when he had completed the study of law with a very fair prospect of professional business, and took a position in the ranks of the first company organized in Adams County, that for the last eight months, Thomas had performed his duty faithfully as Orderly Sergeant of Company D, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Thomas' promotion would certainly be a meritorious one and would be hailed with pleasure by his numerous friends in Adams County.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 53]
February 4, 1862
D[orothea] L. Dix. To F.L. Flowers, M.D. Letter stating that the service of Miss Susan Free was accepted for any general hospital to which the resident Surgeon would admit her, that the rules of the military granted no admission to field hospitals for women and did not allow their service while armies were actively engaged nearby, and that if Free possessed the qualifications Flowers desired, she would find her place in a general hospital. Together with a letter dated February 8, 1862, from Flowers to Governor David Tod; stating that according to Tod's direction, application was made to Dix some days since for Free's services, that Free's services were accepted by Dix, that Free exhausted her means in gratuitously assisting in the military hospital at Lexington, Kentucky during the summer of 1861, that Free desired to return there to the service to which she was accepted, and that the object of his note was to solicit from the proper source a pass for Free to return and go to and from the hospital.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 147]
February 4, 1862
Benjamin Eggleston, et. al., Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by seven individuals; and requesting that the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, now stationed at Camp Dennison, be permitted to retain its identity and allowed to proceed and recruit its full compliment of men without detaching any of its companies for other regiments. Bears a note from Peter Zinn stating that he was opposed to the keeping of similar regiments in an incomplete condition any longer, but knew that several of the subordinate officers of the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry would be great additions to the service; and asking that this regiment be retained intact if not much longer delayed.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 54]
February 4, 1862
H[enry] W. Halleck, Major General, Headquarters, Department of the Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the two detachments of the 39th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been ordered to St. Louis with the intent to unite them as soon as they could be relieved from their present duty, that he had no doubt they were already on the march, that in operating against insurgents, it was often necessary to divide regiments, and that it frequently took time to reunite the parts.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 216]
February 4, 1862
Charles W. Hill, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that if the Governor saw fit to ask him to accept command of the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he would not feel at liberty to decline, that notwithstanding said acceptance, he trusted that neither Buckingham or the Governor would think it improper if he persisted in his application for a brigade, that he would want the regiment detached from two to four weeks for drill, that from what he learned, hardly any progress had been made in said instruction and discipline which was absolutely indispensable before attempting service in the field, that had he relied solely upon his application for a brigade and been successful there, he would not have expected service before the first of March and have appropriated the intervening time to arranging his private affairs, that he would like all of the time for that purpose in any event, but if it should be deemed important, he would try to get off on February 24, that he would have to get almost an entire new equipment for himself and horse, for which he would have to visit Cincinnati, that Buckingham said the Assistant Secretary of War promised to take up his accounts, and that he understood from this that the War Department would order them paid, but had no idea of when or where; and requesting the earliest possible notice of the when and where, and that Buckingham let the Honorable James Myers of the Ohio House of Representatives see his letter and dispatch if he called for that purpose.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 118]
February 4, 1862
H.B. Hunter, Lieutenant Colonel, 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being by the late order virtually broken up and the field officers directed to go on recruiting, he would return for that purpose and continue to use his best exertions to procure men, that he very much desired to go into active service, and that if Tod could give him a place with his present rank in some regiment now in the field or about to be ordered in, he would esteem it a great favor.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 58]
February 4, 1862
Lyman J. Jackson, Major, 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Point Pleasant, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Buckingham's letter, notifying him of having been mustered out of the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was received, that he accepted and was now in for the war, that he would not now be willing to give way to an officer of the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that his acceptance and appointment were now unconditional, that he had every reason to believe that he had won the good feeling of the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a whole and that, despite their initial opposition, his appointment now would be entirely satisfactory, that as to his successor in Company G of the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he would suggest 1st Lieutenant Henry C. Greiner for Captain, 2nd Lieutenant James W. Martin for 1st Lieutenant, and Orderly Sergeant Joseph W. Lidey for 2nd Lieutenant, that he would say of Greiner and Lidey especially, that there were not more efficient officers in the volunteer service than they had been during his tenure as commander of the company, that he believed they were as worthy of promotion as any officers in the service and would fill those respective positions better than any others, that being now mustered out of the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and having some apprehension lest there might be an appointment from the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry by which he would be left out of the service altogether, he had telegraphed his acceptance to Buckingham, that since he was mustered out of the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his offer to the officers of the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was retracted, and that he was thankful for the honor and intended to prove himself worthy of it.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 175]
February 4, 1862
John G. Lowe, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that if Tod was called upon to appoint a Major for the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he could not promote a more competent and meritorious officer or one whose promotion would afford more general satisfaction to the regiment as well as to the field and staff officers of the brigade and division than his stepson, Captain Gates P. Thurston of Company C, that Thurston was a gentleman of liberal education, and an earnest and conscientious soldier, that Thurston was one of General McCook's first appointees to raise a company for the regiment and one of the first to fill up his company, that Thurston had devoted himself to the war with intelligent ardor and energy, and was one of the best officers of his rank in the volunteer corps, that Thurston was known in Columbus and Cincinnati, and his merits could be easily ascertained, that he was probably instrumental in inducing Governor William Dennison to request the War Department to recall Colonel B[enjamin] F. Smith, detailed or granted leave to take command of the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Thurston's interests in the way of promotion (or any other officer's) never entered his mind when he was working to effect Smith's recall, and that what he did with regard to Smith was solely in the interests of the regiment and the public service.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 128]
February 4, 1862
H[arry] M. McAbee, Surgeon, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Medical Director, West Division, Army of the Potomac, Medical Director's Office, Camp Kelly, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter acknowledging the arrival of Surgeon Haynes and Assistant Surgeon Dwyer, both of whom were on duty at Cumberland, [Maryland]; and stating that in January, they had in hospital one thousand and fifty-four men, of whom seventeen died, and that there were now in hospital at Cumberland, eight hundred men.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 231]
February 4, 1862
Duncan McKenzie, Company D, 26th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor [David Tod]. Letter stating that he was about to rejoin his regiment and most respectfully solicited a pass on the cars to Cincinnati for William Tipton and Sergeant Duncan McKenzie, that in the meantime, he wanted the amount of the fare deducted from his next pay, and that he had served in Company A, 15th Infantry in Mexico.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 146]
February 4, 1862
William R. Putnam, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that they were fully aware that Buckingham had done all they had any reason to expect for the appointment of Captain [W.] Craig to the command of the 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that it was with diffidence that they renewed the application, that if Buckingham could in justice to himself and others reconsider the question, they hoped he would do it, that nothing would be more satisfactory to the officers and men of the regiment and the community generally, and he thought to Craig himself, that he learned there had been such manifestations on the part of the officers and soldiers as had materially changed Craig's feelings, that they did not urge these as the great reasons for Craig's appointment, but because they believed he possessed the faculty of impressing his soldiers with confidence in him and themselves (which was so important in an officer), that Craig also possessed energy and executive talent which, combined with military knowledge, fit him in an eminent degree for command, that on behalf of the Military Committee of Washington County, he offered their congratulations to the new Governor and expressed their full confidence in his patriotic devotion to the preservation of the Union, and that they trusted the Governor would avail himself of their services when needed.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 116]
February 4, 1862
Charles A. Rowsey, Captain, Company D, 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Lander, New Creek, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Gustavus W. Fahrion had just reported himself in camp for duty as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company D, 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that at the time he made out the muster and pay rolls, Lieutenant Colonel [Alvin C.] Voris ordered him to insert Fahrion's name as 2nd Lieutenant with remarks of his resignation from December 31, 1861, and that 2nd Lieutenant Louis M. Miller was to take Fahrion's place in the company, and that this arrangement was made between those parties and he knew nothing of the circumstances as they all belonged to the 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 153]
February 4, 1862
George D. Ruggles, Assistant Adjutant General, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D.C. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter reporting that 1st Lieutenant Halbert B. Case, 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Major William Gaskill, 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had resigned effective January 30, 1862, and January 27, 1862, respectively.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 33]
February 4, 1862
A.D.E. Tweed, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that a brother-in-law near Fort Wayne, Indiana, who was a Baptist preacher and an active Christian, thought he could do more good as Chaplain in the army, that his brother-in-law was about 46 years of age and a good man, and that his name was James H. Dunlap and his post office was Roanoke, Huntington County, Indiana; and asking if Tod could give his brother-in-law an appointment.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 125]
February 4, 1862
A[lvin] C. Voris, Late Lieutenant Colonel, 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Lander, near New Creek, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had just received a note from Lieutenant [Joseph] Pool who was appointed as a recruiting Lieutenant for the 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Pool sent him a formal resignation and asked him to send a discharge as of December 18, 1861, that he was not apprised as to what he should do in the premises and supposed Buckingham had a fixed method for disposing of such cases, that he was returning Pool's resignation to Buckingham's office approving the same, that he did not know what course Pool took to dispose of his matters with the department, that Lieutenant Henry, Lieutenant Lowrey, and Lieutenant McKey were in the same situation, that as trouble might grow out of these cases (Fahrion's had already done so), he wished to be advised how he should proceed in like cases, that he had supposed that as all these appointments were conditional, they might be cancelled or resigned at the Adjutant General's office for the State, and that if a discharge signed by himself as late Lieutenant Colonel of the 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was needed, he would cheerfully send it; asking if he would be recognized as Lieutenant Colonel of the 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry at the General War Department; and stating that the Quartermaster's Department represented by Captain Myers would not recognize him as Lieutenant Colonel of the 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry when he desired certain bills allowed, and that if they would do it "pro haec", he would be satisfied.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 111]
February 4, 1862
Isaiah Williams, Central College, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Charles W. Benedict, to whom the enclosed furlough was granted, was a patient under his care, that he believed the health of Benedict would be improved by remaining with his friend and under treatment another 30 days, that he believed Benedict would not be fit for duty in less than a month, that he believed Benedict's disease was of such a nature that it would be imprudent for him to be exposed to camp life until quite rid of disease, that Benedict was effected with bronchitis, and that if it was in Tod's power to grant a furlough, he requested that one be sent.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 117]
February 4, 1862
J.M. Wright, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky. To Governor William Dennison. Extract from Special Orders No. 31, stating that Lieutenant Colonel [Cyrus W.] Grant, 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was ordered to join his regiment for duty without delay. By command of Brigadier General [Don Carlos] Buell.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 158]
February 4, 1862
J.M. Wright, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Extract from Special Orders No. 31, stating that the resignation of Colonel Isaac H. Marrow, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on February 4, 1862. By command of Brigadier General [Don Carlos] Buell.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 203]
February 4, 1862
W[illiam] H. Young, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 26th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Department of the Ohio, Headquarters, Camp Morton, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that when in Columbus to be mustered in, he claimed that his muster should date from his transfer to the 26th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at which time there were four companies of the 79th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in camp as provided in General Order No. 61, that his claim was objected to since Lieutenant Colonel [Ephraim R.] Eckley was not mustered out, and that he now had an order received a day or two since, by reason of which he respectfully renewed his claim to have his muster in dated December 18, 1861. Together with a copy of a letter dated January 9, 1862, from George D. Ruggles, Assistant Adjutant General, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, to the Commanding Officer, 26th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, stating that he was instructed to direct the commanding officer to muster Lieutenant Colonel Ephraim R. Eckley out of service effective December 18, 1861, in order that Eckley might accept promotion.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 225]
[February 5?, 1862]
B[arnabas] Burns. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the friends of Lieutenant Enoch Smith of Company A in Major William McLaughlin's squadron of cavalry had informed him that an attempt was being made to promote the 2nd Lieutenant of said company to the Captaincy in the event of the promotion of Captain [Gaylord] McFall, that if this was done, it would be a great injustice to Smith, that he therefore begged leave to protest against it, that he and others took an active part in raising McFall's company and spent a great deal of time and money for that purpose, that if it had not been for the exertions of Smith and his friends, the company would not have been raised, that Smith was very active and spared neither time or money to raise the company, that it was but simple justice to say that more than three-fourths of the men composing the company were recruited through the influence and exertion of Smith and his friends, that he did not wish to be understood as reflecting upon the other officers of the company, that his only object was to prevent an injustice from being done to Smith whose moral worth, patriotism, and energy were second to none in the squadron, that if promotions had to be made of those higher in rank, he trusted the usual and proper rule would be observed in Smith's case unless good and valid reasons existed rendering a different rule necessary, that Smith was the recruiting Lieutenant for the company by appointment of Governor William Dennison, and that Smith might have had the Captain's commission had he not magnanimously declined in favor of McFall.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 100]
February 5, 1862
Benjamin H. Cheney, A.P. Surgeon, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Captain F. Myres, Assistant Quartermaster, U.S. Army. Letter stating that the bearer, Private Russell Smith, Company C, 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and of late a patient in hospital, was now able to rejoin his regiment.
1 p. [Series 147-25: 53]
February 5, 1862
J[oseph] R. Cockerill, Colonel Commanding, 70th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Ripley, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter reporting that the regiment was steadily increasing and he trusted it would be full in the course of a few weeks; providing a list of the companies with the present number of men in each; and including a copy of a telegram dated February 1, 1862, from Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham to Cockerill, instructing him to make room in his regiment for two full companies which would be given up, and a note from Cockerill stating that he had made the best preparation in his power to accommodate these two companies and would furnish and make room for them if they were sent.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 173]
February 5, 1862
Jno. Y. Glessner, Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that should any vacancy occur in Major [William] McLaughlin's squadron, it would give the many friends of Lieutenant E[noch] Smith much gratification to have him promoted, that Smith was 1st Lieutenant in Captain [Gaylord] McFall's company and was instrumental in filling the company by his perseverance and energy, that Smith was worthy in every respect and would do honor to any post which might be assigned him, that should a vacancy occur in the Captaincy, Smith would be just the man for the place, and that Smith was the regularly appointed recruiting Lieutenant for the company of which he was now 1st Lieutenant.
2 pp. [Series 147-25: 99]