February 24, 1862
George D. Ruggles, Assistant Adjutant General, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To Captain A.B. Dod, Mustering Officer, Columbus, Ohio. Letter stating that he was instructed to direct Dod to muster out of service 2nd Lieutenant William Frampton, 71st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Captain Stephen A. Barron, 72nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1st Lieutenant Jacob Snyder, 72nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Lieutenant Thomas W. Egbert, 72nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 2nd Lieutenant John A. Hardy, 57th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry on the dates specified in obedience to the request of the Governor of Ohio, they having become surplus officers in the consolidation of regiments.
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February 24, 1862
Lyman L. Sikes, Jonathan Bard, Jacob Rufner, John McCerdel, and J[acob] Consolver, 8th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that they had become dissatisfied with their Captain [Louis Markgraff] and were requesting the privilege of a transfer to the 3rd Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, that Markgraff, other officers, and a majority of the men of the 8th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery were German, that the command and a principal part of the business was carried on in German, that this they were unable to understand, that Markgraff was a very excitable man and under very ordinary circumstances became entirely beside himself with excitement, that under such circumstances, they would not feel safe under his command on a field of battle, that they believed that coolness and decision were the first qualities requisite to a good officer and they were confident Markgraff did not possess such qualities, that on all occasions, Markgraff showed a partiality for his German countrymen, that there were now some half dozen Germans out on furlough, that when one of their number asked for a furlough to go home to see a sick wife, he was met with a positive refusal, that they had left comfortable homes at their country's call and taken on the trials and hardships of a soldier's life, that they enlisted under false impressions of their officers, and that they were not asking for a release from the army, but rather a transfer to a company where they could understand the command.
3 pp. [Series 147-27: 105]
February 24, 1862
L[orenzo] Thomas, Adjutant General, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To the Governor of Ohio. Extract from Special Orders No. 40; stating that 1st Lieutenant Edward Spear, Jr. and Private Adrian A. Burrows, 14th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery would be discharged from the service on January 1, 1862, and Corporal Charles Loomis, Company A, 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry would be discharged from the service on January 14, 1862, to enable them to receive promotion in other regiments. By command of Major General [George B.] McClellan.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 44]
February 25, 1862
L.D. Booth, Lieutenant, Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he thought it would be of little use to try to have the men in question go into an infantry regiment, but he would try and see how he could arrange matters with them, that King's battery was at Wheeling, Virginia, that 50 men or so were needed in said battery, that he could raise those men in a short time by taking those he had on hand, and that he could recruit more men in the area to go into King's battery because most of King's men were recruited in Portage County and the adjoining counties.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 79]
February 25, 1862
J[ames] R. Brelsford, Post Surgeon, General Hospital, Cumberland, Maryland. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had just received a letter from Major [Alexander S.] Ballard informing him that the 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was about full and would be ready for service very soon; requesting that he be ordered back to join his regiment; and stating that he wished to get back a short time before the regiment left for active service as he had a tremendous job on his hands at the hospital and was well nigh worked to death, that their numbers had decreased considerably in a few days and they now had plenty of medical assistance, that if he was released, there was a Surgeon present from the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry who would doubtless be appointed to fill his place and would gladly accept it, and that he would be released if Buckingham ordered him back to his regiment.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 180]
February 25, 1862
L.C. Brown, Assistant Post Surgeon, Post Hospital, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To ? Letter certifying a list of those individuals he had discharged from the Post Hospital, Camp Chase on February 25, 1862.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 93]
February 25, 1862
Henry W. Burdsal, Lieutenant Colonel, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he expected to leave Cincinnati on February 28 for Nashville or vicinity to join his regiment; and inquiring as to certain commissions.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 90]
February 25, 1862
Jacob Heaton, Captain and Commissary of Subsistence, U.S. Army, Pikeville, Camp Brownlow, Kentucky. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that his object in writing was to apprise Tod of a clerical blunder made in the Adjutant General's office which, although a small matter, in fact might work serious injury to the harmony and efficiency of the 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that this blunder involved the order of rank of Captains; noting what the proper order of classification of the 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry should be based on the dates of the union of the companies with the regiment and the election of the Captains; stating that if the manifestly just order of classification was not instituted, it would greatly embarrass Colonel J[ames] A. Garfield and materially damage the efficiency of his regiment; requesting that Tod see to it in person that the Adjutant General write an explanatory note disclaiming his intention to break up the harmony of not only the 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but of the 18th Brigade now commanded by Garfield; and stating that he had confidence the Adjutant General would do so because the charges made were neither according to law or the facts, that they had a terrific flood in the area which swept away everything before it, that the water rose 60 feet in 20 hours, that a large number of commissary stores were damaged and swept away, and that he was relying on Tod's timely attention to the order of classification of the 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which would avert what might become a serious calamity.
3 pp. [Series 147-27: 152]
February 25, 1862
David W. Houghton, Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that seeing by the papers that Senator Monroe was at home, he took the liberty of addressing Buckingham in regard to his case, that he had written Monroe twice and asked him to find out who he should report to, that he informed Monroe that he was ready and anxious to go into service and if he could not do so in Ohio, he wanted to be mustered out and paid so that he could travel to Pennsylvania and there enter the service, that it was now six months and four days since he arrived at Camp Dennison with 66 men who he recruited in Lorain County and who were now with Captain Edgerton in Kentucky and in service, that it did seem to him as though he ought to have some pay, that he was in want of some means to live upon and to support his wife and four children, that if he did not get his pay, he would lose his house and lot to cover debts contracted for keeping his family when he was at Camp Dennison and in Kentucky, and that if Buckingham would try and get him his money, it would confer a great favor on his suffering family.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 76]
[February 25?, 1862]
M[ortimer] D. Leggett, 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that when they left Zanesville, he was obliged to leave about 50 men behind, most of them convalescing from measles, a few on recruiting service, and a few newly enlisted who had not yet reached camp, that he left Sergeant Daniels of Company B with written instructions to collect these men all together and bring them forward as soon as possible, that he would be obliged if Buckingham saw to it that Daniels had transportation furnished for these men and that Stenger & Fox, the contractor at Zanesville, furnished them at least five days' rations, and that he would like to have these men as soon as possible.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 35]
[February 25?, 1862]
Members of Company G, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that having received assurances from Governor William Dennison at the time of their re-enlistment for three years that any choice of company officers made by them would be respected and hoping that the proper appointing authorities would yet respect a choice made by them, they requested the appointment of 2nd Lieutenant Isaiah Larkins as 1st Lieutenant, that Larkins had discharged his duties for some time with credit to himself and satisfaction to them, that they thought the appointment of another to the position of 1st Lieutenant would be detrimental to the general interests of the company, and that for their general interests as volunteers in service to their country while in her perilous condition, they unanimously made this request.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 79]
February 25, 1862
Joseph K. Merwin, 2nd Lieutenant, 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Massillon, Stark County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Buckingham's order directing him to proceed to Stark County and recruit for the 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was received at Camp Medill on Thursday last, and that in compliance therewith, he set out the following day for Massillon.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 36]
February 25, 1862
Granville Moody, Colonel, 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had concluded to ask Buckingham for the command of Camp Chase if the completion of the 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry entitled him to it, that all their officers desired the arrangement, that General Wright thought the arrangement best and said he would seek an interview with Buckingham on the subject, that Major [Alexander S.] Ballard begged leave to urge the appointment, and that it might not be pleasant for him as the senior man and commanding a full regiment to be compelled to ask leave of his junior in years and in command of an incomplete regiment to visit the prison, etc.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 107]
February 25, 1862
Francis B. Pond, Colonel, and Dan C. Liggett, Adjutant, 62nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Kimball at Big Cacapon Bridge, Morgan County, Virginia. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that he desired to know if the enclosed certificates of qualification were properly executed, and if the party whose name appeared at the foot had the power to administer the oath.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 217]
February 25, 1862
J[ames] W. Ripley, Brigadier General, Ordnance Office, Washington. To Governor David Tod. Letter acknowledging the receipt of Tod's telegram of February 24; and stating that the authority under which the powder Tod referred to was contracted should be furnished before he would feel at liberty to receive it, that no evidence of such authority could be found on the books of his office, and that it might have been communicated to Governor [William] Dennison directly from the War Department.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 106]
February 25, 1862
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that D.C. Johnson of Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio represented that he now had recruited twenty odd men who were enlisted for [James H.] Lane's command in Kansas, that Johnson found he had no authority to recruit these men, and that Johnson wanted authority to recruit for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and requesting that the Adjutant General send Johnson the proper authority to enlist a company for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 34]
February 25, 1862
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that Francis McGrew, who held a 2nd Lieutenant's appointment to recruit for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, desired to have Emanuel Preston of Cincinnati, Ohio appointed as his assistant; and requesting that the appointment be made and forwarded to McGrew.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 36]
February 25, 1862
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that Lieutenant Henry S. Barnes, formerly of the 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and now holding authority to recruit for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, desired to have William W. Moore of Chillicothe appointed to assist in recruiting his company, that if Barnes was recruiting by authority of his 2nd Lieutenant's appointment, he wished to have Moore appointed as Barnes' assistant, that if Barnes was recruiting by other authority, he wished the Adjutant General to grant and send authority for Moore by mail as soon as convenient care of Barnes, that Moore was the son of Major Moore, and that Barnes claimed Moore could be of immediate service recruiting.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 41]
February 25, 1862
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that there was no Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon currently present with his command, that one of which was quite necessary in medical attention to recruits in the regimental hospital, that he was not advised as to the whereabouts or the nature of the absence of the Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon, but had heard they were ordered away, and that if permitted to indicate, he would request the early return of Assistant Surgeon Hoge, but not that of Surgeon McMahon.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 68]
February 25, 1862
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that Reverend S.B. Smith of Hamersville, Brown County, Ohio desired authority to recruit for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and requesting that said authority be granted.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 204]
February 25, 1862
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that Benjamin Kimball of Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio desired authority to recruit for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and requesting that the Adjutant General grant said authority.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 208]
February 25, 1862
D. Alex Schulck, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To ? Document stating that he had treated Felix Latin, Sergeant, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry for typhoid fever from January 19-February 25, that Latin had recovered from the disease and his health was restored, and that Latin wished to join his regiment in Tennessee.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 39]
February 26, 1862
H.L. Burnett, Captain, State of Ohio, Executive Department, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that upon further consideration, he thought it best to go to Camp Dennison that evening, and that he would make arrangements at Camp Dennison with his men and at Cincinnati for their transportation; requesting that the order for their transfer be telegraphed him at Camp Dennison care of Captain Kemper, Assistant Adjutant General, and that Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham be informed that he had received an order for these men properly endorsed by General Hunter; and stating that Captain Benjamin C. Stanhope was the officer with whom he had made the arrangement to accompany him as 1st Lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 51]
February 26, 1862
T[ully] C. Bushnell, Camp Brownlow. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that a question of seniority had arisen in the 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry which was likely to create dissatisfaction and impair the usefulness of the regiment unless satisfactorily settled by Buckingham, that it was claimed by some that the time when a full company was mustered into service fixed the seniority of the commandant of that company, that others claimed the date of the order to raise a company fixed the date of commission provided the company was finally raised and chose the person who received the order to raise the company as Captain, that others claimed it was the date when the company held their election for officers, that it appeared from the rank roll as published and by examination of dates of commissions that his commission was the oldest, that it was claimed by Captain F[rederick] A. Williams, who stood Number 6 on the rank roll, that he was senior Captain inasmuch as his company was mustered into service first and took the right of the regiment, that five other Captains who received orders to raise companies before Williams did and whose commissions were of older date than his claimed that the fact of his company being brought into camp first gave him no right to claim seniority, that Colonel [James A.] Garfield had acted upon the supposition that the fact of Williams bringing his company into camp first made him senior Captain and doubtless supposed his commission was the oldest until recently, that whether Buckingham dated his commission from the date of his order to raise a company or whether Buckingham dated it from the time of the organization of his company, he outranked Williams, that his company was organized on September 15, 1861, that Williams' company was organized on September 20, 1861, but was brought to Camp Chase three days before his, that he drew pay as Captain several days longer than Williams did, that in his opinion, this fact was conclusive so far as the question of the seniority of Williams and himself was concerned, that an early statement from Buckingham on the principles governing dating commissions would doubtless restore harmony, that it was claimed an error had been committed somewhere in dating these commissions, and that when the rule was understood and impartially applied, all would be harmony again.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 237]
February 26, 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 the enclosed letter was sent to him at Hamilton and there detained, that he had just received it, that he had seen Captain [Harry] Hazleton and was satisfied he would make an efficient officer, and that if it suited the Governor and Buckingham, he would like to have Hazleton appointed Lieutenant Colonel with the condition that he bring the three companies into the regiment by March 12. Together with a letter dated February 18, 1862, from Harry Hazleton, formerly Captain of Company A, Benton Cadets, Cincinnati, to Colonel L[ewis] D. Campbell; stating that Lieutenant Colonel [William B.] Cassilly informed him he had resigned his position in the 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being unable to procure the requisite number of men, that he now had 242 men ready to bring into camp and a certainty of being able to recruit sufficiently to fill his third company within two or three weeks, that if Campbell procured for him the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel, he would bring three full companies within three weeks, and that if this met with Campbell's approval, he would look for his appointment by return mail.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 184]
February 26, 1862
J[oel] A. Dewey, 43rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he received Buckingham's telegram and was acting accordingly, that he took Lieutenant [Israel] Underwood of the 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry with him, that after making the most thorough search of George Wyant's premises and the village round, they were both satisfied that Wyant was not in Knox County, that undoubtedly, Wyant was in Mansfield or in Columbiana County with his sisters, that he had left the affair to be watched by neighbors, etc., and in the hands of Lieutenant Underwood who might effect the object sometime, although he thought he could push the matter through successfully very soon, that an intimation from Buckingham would decide it, that he found the hospital in a terribly destitute condition, but the kindness of friends and arrangements made on February 25 had made the patients once more fully comfortable, that Buckingham must know that he was intensely anxious to rejoin his company, and that he hoped to find passes at Mt. Vernon and thought it highly proper to use them.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 80]
February 26, 1862
O[liver] D. Greene, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Extract from Special Order No. 53, stating that the resignation of Captain J[ohn] C. Baxter, Company D, 65th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on February 26, 1862. By command of Brigadier General [Don Carlos] Buell.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 87]
February 26, 1862
A[lexander] L. Haskins, Major, 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commerce, Missouri. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he did not know what influences had been at work to obtain a position for Silas Thurlow in the 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but he understood there was a prospect of Thurlow being appointed as a 1st Lieutenant in Captain [Charles H.] Titus' company, that Thurlow's course towards the 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from beginning to end, justly entitled him to confinement in a guard house during the war rather than rewarding him with an office where he would be associated with gentlemen, that Thurlow was appointed as a recruiting Lieutenant on or around October 1, 1861, in the 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but placed his men in the 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Thurlow was the most hostile enemy the 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had and he, together with the sutler of the 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, were the means of defeating the formation of the 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Colonel [W.] Craig had written Buckingham in relation to Thurlow's course, that in consequence of such course, Buckingham replied that Thurlow was incapacitated from holding an office in the volunteer forces, that Buckingham's letter was dated the latter part of October, 1861, that Lieutenant [Louis] Schmidt was a faithful and very efficient officer, that although Titus at first protested against Schmidt's appointment, he was now highly pleased with him and hoped to retain him, that all of the officers of the line were hostile to Thurlow and favorable to Schmidt, that Schmidt was appointed as a recruiting Lieutenant and mustered in on October 4, 1861, that Schmidt had worked for the regiment ever since, instead of against it as was the case with Thurlow, that he trusted the commissions for the regiment were not yet made, that they were all highly pleased with Colonel [John W.] Sprague, that the regiment was in fine health and spirits, and that they were encamped on fine grounds.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 162]
February 26, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Orders No. 181, stating that the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant L[ucian] H. Wright, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on February 26, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 88]
February 26, 1862
Felix Latin, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he left Columbus with his regiment (58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry), that he was sent home from Xenia due to sickness, and that he was now well and wished to return to his regiment in Tennessee, but had no pass; requesting a pass; and enclosing documents.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 39]