February 15, 1862
L[orenzo] Thomas, Adjutant General, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Orders No. 34, stating that Captain J[ohn] W. Sprague, 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who had been held as a prisoner by the rebels, had been exchanged for Captain Lucius Johnson, a prisoner taken in arms against the United States. By command of Major General [George B.] McClellan.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 229]

February 15, [1862]
William H. Trimble, Colonel, 60th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (one year's service), Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter regarding Charles Kalor (a nurse) and the boxes of goods he sent away; stating that he had employed, as authorized by regulations, Dr. Livesay of Gallipolis to attend to his sick and was sending a copy of the contract for Buckingham to hand to the Surgeon General, that Livesay had from 20 to 30 men in hospital and those in camp who needed a physician, but were not sick enough for the hospital, that Livesay had been engaged one week and should continue his attendance on two cases, one of typhoid fever and one of pneumonia, that he was aiming to keep a strict guard and had the gratification of knowing that the people at Gallipolis were astonished at the good order of his camp and the gentlemanly bearing of his officers and soldiers, that local residents said the contrast with those officers and soldiers who had been there before was very striking, that he learned from home that recruiting was active and expected to organize the regiment at Gallipolis the first of next week, that he was afraid the fighting would be over before he got into a great battle, and that it had been a passion of his since boyhood to be in a great battle; and requesting that transportation be sent to Lieutenant Elliot at Salesville, Noble County, Ohio so that he could get his men to Gallipolis.
4 pp. [Series 147-26: 204]

February 15, 1862
Melancthon S. Wade, Brigadier General in command of Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that three regiments in Camp Dennison (54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 48th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry) should be ordered into active service and their places filled by other troops, that said regiments were anxious to get into the field, the material was good, and they would do better in active service, that the prospects were brightening, and that the ball should be pushed until traitors and treason were wiped out.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 179]

February 16, 1862
Oliver D. Greene, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Extract from Special Order No. 43, stating that the resignation of Captain L[orenzo] Fulton, Company G, 53rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on February 16, 1862. By command of Brigadier General [Don Carlos] Buell.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 201]

February 16, 1862
M. Hoge, Assistant Surgeon, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had arrived on February 16, and reported for duty according to orders.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 188]

February 16, 1862
Thomas Kilby Smith, Colonel, 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he was in receipt of orders from Buckingham to proceed with his command, as soon as transportation was furnished, to Paducah, Kentucky and from there to report to Major General [Henry] Halleck at St. Louis by letter or telegraph, and to take five days rations (with three days rations cooked), with the intimation that arms would be furnished to the command by Halleck, that this order was confirmed by Special Order No. 24 emanating from Brigadier General [Melancthon S.] Wade, commandant of Camp Dennison, with information that transportation from Camp Dennison to Cincinnati would be in readiness for his command at 8 A.M. on February 17, and that at the hour specified, the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry would march.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 219]

February 16, 1862
S[tephen] B. Yeoman, Captain, Company A, 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, et. al., Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith. Letter signed by seven company commanders in the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; recommending the Reverend Joseph Morris as a suitable person for the position of Chaplain of the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that Morris had an extensive influence in many parts of the State, especially where the greater part of the regiment was recruited, and that Morris had the reputation of being a faithful minister wherever he was known. Bears a note dated February 16, 1862, from Thomas Kilby Smith, Colonel, 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio; stating that agreeable to the nomination of the company officers of the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he appointed Reverend Joseph Morris as Chaplain of the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry with the remark that Morris was appointed, so far as he knew and was advised, agreeably to the wishes and wants of the soldiers under his command who had been allowed their full and due insight in making the selection and in accordance with Article 24 of the revised "Regulations of the Army of the United States"; and forwarding the proceedings to the Adjutant General of Ohio with the remark that Morris was a regularly ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church duly eligible for appointment as Chaplain of the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
2 pp. [Series 147-26: 157]

February 17, 1862
G.B. Arnold, Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, stationed at Mt. Vernon, had been full for some time, been paid up to January 1, had arms and a full outfit, and was ready for service, that the 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been in camp filling up since early in September 1861, and was likely to be the most expensive regiment (before they were ordered into service) yet raised in Ohio, that while other regiments, which commenced organizing long after the 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, had been ordered into service some considerable time since and were now doing manful duty for their country, the 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been kept at Mt. Vernon at an expense of some $75,000, that friends of the Union and Tod's friends were inquiring why this was so, that the 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was called a "pet regiment", that many believed an influence existed at Columbus to keep the 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry out of service and danger as much as possible, that the field officers of the 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were mostly from Columbus and their parents lived there, that if Tod could exert his influence to get the 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry off soon, he would retain the good will of a host of friends locally, that the community of Mt. Vernon was getting very tired of the 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry being there, that there was a great lack of discipline and military economy among members of the 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that he wrote confidentially, and as a friend and well-wisher of Tod's administration.
2 pp. [Series 147-26: 232]

February 17, 1862
F.T. Backus, Henry C. Hawkins, County Auditor, William Fully, M. Barnett, and Reuben Hitchcock, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the bearer, Carver Stickney of Cuyahoga County, would be glad of a position in connection with the Quartermaster's Department in the Commissary Department of the army, that Stickney was one of their most reliable citizens and would be found to possess the right qualifications in every respect for such a place, and that they would be much gratified if the requirements of the service were such as to enable Tod to assist Stickney in the accomplishment of his wishes in this matter.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 228]

February 17, 1862
James Barnett, Colonel, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that as Buckingham was aware, there was but one battery (Company K) of his regiment remaining in camp, that under Buckingham's order, this battery would proceed to Virginia to report to General [William S.] Rosecrans as soon as ammunition arrived, that this battery would be under the command of Lieutenant Colonel [William H.] Hayward who would go to Virginia to take charge of their batteries in that State, that he now hoped for permission to take the field immediately, that he had already spent about six months of camp life engaged in organizing his regiment, that as his men were in the field, he wished to be with them, that as there might be some delay in the independent batteries getting off, he hoped to be relieved of the duty of looking after them, that he wanted to leave at the earliest possible moment, and that he would be obliged if Buckingham allowed him to join his command.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 214]

February 17, 1862
E[phraim] C. Dawes, Adjutant, 53rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Diamond, Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that commissions for field and staff officers and for eight companies were received, that there were quite a number of errors in said commissions, and that those commissions with errors were being returned for correction; listing said errors; requesting that the errors be corrected as speedily as possible, and that the corrected commissions be sent to Portsmouth, Ohio, the new headquarters of the regiment; stating that they were still without certain commissions; and listing said commissions. By order of R[obert] A. Fulton, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 53rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Bears a note dated February 18; stating that the regiment was leaving for Kentucky; and requesting that the commissions be sent after them.
3 pp. [Series 147-26: 188]

February 17, 1862
J[oel] A. Dewey, Captain, Company H, 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Andrews, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that at the request of Lieutenant [Montgomery] Close, he was happy to relate the facts concerning the organization of their company and the claims deducible therefrom, that Close was to pay half of the heavy expense of raising their detachment of fifty odd men transferred to Camp Andrews, that none of these men had been discharged, that Lieutenant [Samuel K.] Williams brought twenty-seven men, nine or ten of whom had been or would be discharged, i.e. their certificates of disability had been made out, that one of their men (formerly acting Orderly) would probably be discharged from service, that independent of the characters of the two gentlemen and according to the rules of recruiting in Ohio, the appointments of Williams and Close ought to be exchanged under the circumstances, that in his honest judgement, their company (perhaps to a man) would be exceedingly rejoiced and the service benefitted by such change, and that additional facts and reasons bearing upon the point would be noted by Close.
2 pp. [Series 147-26: 143]

February 17, 1862
Oliver D. Greene, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Extract from Special Orders No. 44, stating that the resignation of Captain Henry Malory, 35th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on February 17, 1862.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 202]

February 17, 1862
J[ames] C. Harrison, Acting Assistant Adjutant General, 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 48th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had marched from Camp Dennison en route to Paducah, Kentucky.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 218]

February 17, 1862
John S. Mathews, Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that on October 7, 1861, he was appointed by Tod's predecessor as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, that in obedience to orders, he reported himself with his recruits at Camp Hutchins, that the number of recruits which he enlisted and reported entitled him to a position in said regiment, that no position had been assigned to him in spite of receiving assurances from the commanding officer that one would be and that he would be placed on duty, that on December 31, 1861, Colonel [William R.] Lloyd sent him a furlough because of illness (obtained upon a physician's certificate), that he reported himself to Lloyd on January 17, 1862, and was then informed there was no vacancy in the regiment, that upon reporting himself to Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham, he was informed that his name was not on the muster roll, that on February 6, he received a notice and was sending Tod a duplicate, that Tod's attention was directed to the date of the notice and the date of mustering him out, as well as to the copy of a letter he addressed to Buckingham and the reply, that he trusted Tod would take such action as would best promote the interest of the service, and that his name would be put on the muster roll if Buckingham was reminded to do so.
2 pp. [Series 147-26: 210]

February 17, 1862
William R. Putnam, Chairman, Military Committee of Washington County, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Lieutenant West was visiting Columbus for the purpose of having his military difficulties adjusted, that West received a commission to recruit for the 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that unfortunately for West, he entered into an arrangement with Silas Thurlow to raise a company of which Thurlow was to be Captain, that Thurlow had the rolls, etc., in his possession, that when objections were raised to Thurlow holding office in the 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (to which they had been transferred), he refused to give the rolls, etc., to West, that when Colonel Craig demanded the documents, West was unable to produce them, that this was understood to be the cause of West's arrest, and that it was the opinion of the committee that West had not willfully done anything wrong, but had been the victim of overconfidence in another.
2 pp. [Series 147-26: 169]

February 17, 1862
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To ? Letter requesting authority for J.F. Barnwell of Cincinnati, Ohio to enlist a company for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 155]

February 18, 1862
Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To the Governor of Ohio. Incomplete letter stating that Captain Charles Pomroy, 39th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1st Lieutenant Anton Petersen, 37th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel James M. Comley, 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1st Lieutenant Jacob Humphries, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Hawkins, 25th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Lieutenant Charles E. Mitchener, 51st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1st Lieutenant David W. Houghten, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, 2nd Lieutenant James G. Cummins, 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 2nd Lieutenant John P. Holt, 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry had resigned effective on the dates specified.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 230]

February 18, 1862
J[oel] F. Asper, Captain, Company H, 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Wheeling, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that measures had been taken which would speedily create a vacancy in the Colonelcy of the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that as Lieutenant Colonel [Alvin C.] Voris had no military experience and did not at present desire promotion, he asked Tod to consider his claims in connection with the office and appoint him, that he was writing in advance so that Tod would not have other persons pressed and someone else fixed upon his mind, that he thought he had fairly earned this promotion by faithful and earnest service and by the part he took in saving the regiment at the Battle of Cross Lanes, and that he had enough experience in the service to know how to take care of men so as not to wantonly throw away their lives to no purpose merely to gratify a morbid ambition as some of the Ohio Colonels had done; citing references; and stating that when he was at Columbus, Tod thought there would be "hot work" in [Frederick W.] Lander's division, that he thought he knew the situation and differed with Tod, that up to now there had been no "hot work" and there would be none for some time to come, that there could not be any fighting until they got before Winchester and perhaps not then, that they could not get to Winchester until the railroad was open to Martinsburg and perhaps Harpers Ferry, and that they must have the railroad in order to get subsistence for the army.
3 pp. [Series 147-26: 194]

February 18, 1862
James Barnett, Colonel, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter requesting that Louis Heckman be appointed as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company K of the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery; and stating that his reasons for requesting the appointment were that Heckman was fully competent to fill the position, having seen some service in artillery in western Virginia, and that Heckman had, of late, been recruiting for the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, that the vacancy in the company had never been filled and Captain [William L.] DeBeck did not have a full roll, that James D. Holden, who now held the appointment of 2nd Lieutenant, was originally appointed as 1st Lieutenant, that by some mistake, Holden was put upon the muster rolls as 2nd Lieutenant, that he now asked for Holden's promotion to a 1st Lieutenancy, and that as Company K would soon take the field, Buckingham's immediate attention to the matter would be appreciated.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 172]

February 18, 1862
A.W. Bostwick, Lieutenant, 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had sworn eighty-four men into service to date, that he planned to start for camp on Wednesday next, at which time he hoped to have one hundred men, that he was in receipt of Buckingham's dispatch notifying him of the assignment of his company to the 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that to save any mistake on his part, he was enclosing Colonel [Newton] Schleich's instructions to him forwarding transportation and received on February 17, and that if any further instructions were needed, he wished them sent before he started.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 205]

February 18, 1862
Oliver D. Greene, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Extract from Special Order No. 45, stating that the resignation of Chaplain [Thomas] McCleary, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on February 18, 1862.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 203]

February 18, 1862
William S. Moore, Assistant Surgeon, 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Post Hospital, Cumberland, Maryland. To Surgeon General Weber. Letter stating that since leaving his regiment, he had been advised that it had been used in filling up other incomplete regiments, that this left the 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry a regiment in name only, that he had been on duty ever since being mustered into the service, that for the past month, he had been in the post hospital at Cumberland, Maryland, that if there was any vacancy in a regiment which was in the service or was complete, he would beg to be transferred to it, that he did not much relish the prospect of serving through the war and not obtaining a commission in any real regiment, and that his appointment in the 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry dated from October 9, 1861.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 209]

February 18, 1862
Max Polacheck, Lieutenant, 9th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Colonel [Robert L.] McCook had refused to accept his services and he again placed himself entirely at Buckingham's disposal, and that as he did not have the means to wait long without embarking in some other employment, a speedy answer would be considered as a very great favor.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 187]

February 18, 1862
J[ohn] B. Purcell, Archbishop, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Richard C. Farthing was a man of large experience who had traveled much in Europe as a merchant making trade purchases, that Farthing was recommended by some of their prominent citizens for the place of Quartermaster or Commissary, that no man stood higher in the community for integrity and business habits, and that he wished to unite with others who had recommended Farthing for the post solicited.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 184]

[February] 18, 1862
W.W. Reed, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter asking if Tod was going to keep them there; stating that he heard the officers would like to stay because they were getting big pay, that his folks were hard up and were going to be turned out of their house since they could not pay the rent, that he did not have a cent to send them, that it was the second pay day and they had no pay yet, and that he thought it was a shame to turn anyone out of doors; requesting some money so his mother would not be turned out in the street; and stating that Tod should send some money if he had any respect for the men.
2 pp. [Series 147-26: 232]

February 19, 1862
A.G.W. Carter, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter written on behalf of his brother, Lieutenant Colonel John H. Carter of the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that it would seem by the machinations, scheming, and intriguing of Colonel C.H. Sargent, his brother had been continually kept in hot water as Lieutenant Colonel, that he understood Sargent went to Columbus that afternoon to disturb the elements in reference to his brother, that if any attacks were made upon his brother by Sargent or anybody else, he wanted his brother to have a hearing, that he was perfectly confident his brother would come off unscathed, that Sargent seemed to have pursued his brother with singular and peculiar animosity from the time of his appointment by Governor William Dennison as Lieutenant Colonel, that he could not account for this with any explanation other than that Sargent had been extremely desirous to supercede the Lieutenant Colonel and have someone of a more elastic and pliable nature appointed in his place, that he knew his brother to be an honest, capable, and energetic soldier, that his brother had a great deal of military experience and no man presented to Governor Dennison a better series of recommendations for his present position, that the only objection to his brother's appointment ever urged by Dennison was that they were cousins, that if compatible with Tod's wishes and the interests of the service, he would suggest that his brother be transferred to some other regiment, that he understood the position of Lieutenant Colonel was vacant in the 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that if so, he would be happy to have his brother transferred to fill the position, that in any event, he thought it would be better for his brother to be removed from the enmity or animosity of Colonel Sargent, that if he could get loose from his court business, he would take occasion to visit Tod at Columbus, that he hoped Tod would indulge him in further suggestions regarding the subject mentioned, that in the meantime, he would be pleased to hear from Tod, and that he would like to be informed of the true position which his brother now occupied in reference to his command.
4 pp. [Series 147-26: 225]

February 20, 1862
Oliver Britt, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had a brother-in-law from Pendleton County, Kentucky who was confined at Camp Chase on a charge of enticing soldiers to join the rebel army, and that his brother-in-law denied the charge and he believed it was a false charge; asking Buckingham to grant his brother-in-law a speedy trial; stating that his brother-in-law's business was in such a state at home that it might break him up entirely, that his brother-in-law had a wife and seven children who were not in comfortable circumstances by any means and it was out of his power to help them but very little, that his brother-in-law had no money to spend on lawyers' fees, etc., or perhaps he might have had a trial before now, and that his brother-in-law's name was Charles R. Snyder; and citing references in regard to his character and Unionism.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 233]

February 20, 1862
Lewis D. Campbell, Colonel, 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that pursuant to Buckingham's order, he left Camp Hamilton with his command (7 companies consisting of 650 men) on February 19 at 11 A.M., and reported at 9 A.M. on February 20 to Major Lanning, the commander at Camp Chase, that at 12 P.M., Lanning's detachment marched out leaving Camp Chase under his command, that he found a number of sick soldiers in the hospital, some of whom he had already furloughed on Surgeon's certificate, that he also found a large number of prisoners, that he was as yet unable to report the precise number or provide details, having failed to procure any satisfactory information either from Lanning or from the books and papers left at Camp Chase, that the 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had no Surgeon for the past two weeks, and that he had provided a room for a hospital at Hamilton, Ohio, employed a good Surgeon, and left their sick behind.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 183]

February 20, 1862
D.A. Haynes, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Stephens Hayes, who was appointed assistant to Lieutenant Dietrich and afterwards made Lieutenant of a company in the 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, informed him that he had been thrown out by the disorganization of the company, that Hayes enlisted more than the number of men required of a 2nd Lieutenant and reported them on December 20 at Camp Becket, that Hayes desired and deserved to have an appointment dating back at least to that time and entitling him to pay, that Hayes was a good soldier and most active and efficient in recruiting, and that Hayes was poor with a large family and could not afford to lose the time he had spent.
2 pp. [Series 147-26: 171]

February 20, 1862
William Mills, Lieutenant and Quartermaster, 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Lowe, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the rapid increase of volunteers for the 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry indicated that they would soon be ready for the field, that the probability of their being ordered away under the existing state of affairs, without pay, was a matter of serious embarrassment, that many of the soldiers had been in camp between four and five months without receiving any funds, that their families had only the uncertain supplies of charity and the inadequate contributions from the county, that the idea of being removed now, without any certainty as to the present or future support of their families, was to every humane and right-minded man a source of inexpressible sorrow, that it was a reasonable expectation that the soldiers should be paid every sixty days, that the good faith of the Government was relied upon when men left their homes and entered the army, that many of the soldiers needed their money immediately so they might settle up their affairs and the necessary debts incurred in sustaining their families while they had been in camp, that Buckingham's own judgment and observation would enable him to fully comprehend the subject, that they owed their Commissary about nine thousand dollars, he having received no pay for nearly three months, that they had also incurred a large debt for fuel and almost everything requisite for the sustenance of the camp, that Buckingham could readily see how desirable it would be to have all these claims adjusted before they were ordered away, that he knew that no responsibility or censure could be attached to their State departments for this sad pecuniary delinquency, yet the evil was great, and that a just retribution ought to be visited upon the heads of every member of congress who had thrown obstacles in the way of affording the country relief.
3 pp. [Series 147-26: 169]

February 21, 1862
W.E. Finck, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter enclosing a letter he received that morning from J[oseph] W. Lidy in reference to the office of 2nd Lieutenant in the company lately commanded by Captain [Lyman J.] Jackson in the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that he trusted it would be compatible with the interests of the service for the Adjutant General's Department to approve the selection made by the company and appoint Lidy to the office of 2nd Lieutenant.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 171]

February 21, 1862
A.P. Mason, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that a friend of his, an unmarried lady about 40 years of age, of good character, and having good health, and who he thought would succeed well in the employment, wished a place as a nurse in one of the hospitals, and that his friend was without means and obliged to render more or less constant assistance to the family of an invalid sister; asking if nurses were wanted and if so, to whom application should be made for a place; and stating that he wished to call upon the U.S. Commissary at Cincinnati and obtain a contract for hard bread for the army in western Virginia, and that he wanted a letter of introduction from Buckingham to the U.S. Commissary at Cincinnati noting what was known of his success in furnishing a good article and anything else thought advisable.
1 p. [Series 147-26: 207]

February 21, 1862
J.N. Ross, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Lieutenant Spencer Franklin had not received fair treatment, that there had not been intention to do Franklin injury, but from a combination of circumstances, he had been wronged in the appointment of officers in the 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, that Nelson Franklin had done as much or more than any man in Pickaway County in support of the government and had put his whole energy, time, and large amounts of money to the work, that Nelson Franklin's son was Lieutenant Spencer Franklin, that he hoped something would be done for Spencer Franklin, that he did not think Pickaway County men had been forward in pressing their claims for promotion, that Pickaway County had over a thousand men in the field with no officer above an Adjutant, that of this they did not complain, but he knew the treatment of Spencer Franklin would be much regretted in Pickaway County, that Colonel [William O.] Collins of the 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and Lieutenant Colonel of the 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry (as organized) might have done his duty, that he had no doubt, however, that Spencer Franklin was as capable as many of the officers in the 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and had just as much experience, that he knew Spencer Franklin had the energy for a good officer, and that they wanted the matter righted.
3 pp. [Series 147-26: 223]

Undated
List of field, staff, and company officers of the 9th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
2 pp. [Series 147-26: 197]