February 26, 1862
R[odney] Mason, Colonel, 71st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Paducah, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter reporting the safe arrival of the 71st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Paducah, Kentucky; stating that they expected to receive their arms on February 26, that most of the troops at Paducah had been sent up the Cumberland, that they had now remaining some 8,000 troops, including the 71st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 57th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 70th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 72nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 53rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 48th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that they had not yet been brigaded, but were notified to attend at headquarters on February 26, that Lieutenant Leiter had not yet joined them and he was expecting him, that he left Lieutenant Thoms at Troy to bring forward the sick and absent and authorized him to provide for their subsistence and transportation, that he hoped this would meet with Buckingham's approval, that Thoms would probably call on Buckingham for an order for his transportation, that General [Henry] Halleck refused to send officers home for recruiting service, that he could not obtain muster in rolls at Paducah, that one of his companies was incomplete on account of the absence of Leiter's detachment, and that the roll for field and staff had not been made up; and requesting ten or twelve muster in rolls.
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February 26, 1862
B.S. Stevens, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he saw by Tod's message that additional Assistant Surgeons were at present required, that he proposed to go to any point designated and do all in his power until such law as Tod recommended was passed, and that he passed an examination at the October meeting of the Board of Medical Examiners.
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February 26, 1862
John F. Torrence, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that James F. Irwin, Jr., 1st Sergeant, Company G, 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry ("Guthrie Grays") had been writing to him about his prospects, and that Irwin was anxious to be in the line of promotion; enclosing a letter received from Irwin on February 25 from Paducah, Kentucky on his way to Nashville, Tennessee; and stating that if anything could be done for Irwin, his friends would be much pleased, that Irwin was a good boy about twenty-three years old, that Irwin went into Company G, 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry on April 20, 1861, and had stuck with his company ever since (ten months), and that Irwin was willing to stick until the old flag of the Union should wave over every state and every fort in their once happy union of states.
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February 26, 1862
James Turner, Justice of the Peace, Montgomery County, Ohio. To ? Document certifying that D.A. Schulck appeared before him and swore that his statement regarding Felix Latin was true, that D.A. Schulck was a regular practicing physician in Dayton and in good standing in his profession, and that Schulck's signature on said statement was genuine.
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[February 27?, 1862]
John D. Caldwell, et. al. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by eleven individuals; and requesting that Tod consider the propriety of promoting Dr. R[obert] G. McLean of Franklin County, Ohio, now Assistant Surgeon of the 81st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in Missouri, and proper measures for recruiting up that regiment.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 157]
February 27, 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. 54; stating that the resignations of Chaplain B.R. Pierce, 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Captain C.M. Poore, 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and Lieutenant Colonel C. Grant, 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were accepted to take effect on February 27, 1862. By command of Brigadier General [Don Carlos] Buell.
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February 27, 1862
John Hutchins, Washington. To Governor David Tod. Letter renewing his recommendation of Mr. Phillips as Battalion Quartermaster for reasons stated in his previous letter.
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February 27, 1862
Thomas J. Janney, 2nd Lieutenant, 25th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Beverly, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 25th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and assigned to Company K on January 8, that upon reporting himself for duty, he found that the company was very much dissatisfied with his appointment, that he thought this might wear off and that when he once became settled down, it would to a great extent pass away, that it seemed both the Captain and 1st Lieutenant were equally dissatisfied with his appointment because the Orderly Sergeant was not promoted, he having been recommended by the Colonel, that the men, being aware of this, were encouraged to resist his authority and to vex him by all the little, petty annoyances they could, that if the officers favored him, he could, in the course of time, have the proper respect of the company, but with officers and men both opposing him, it would be impossible to have discipline and there would be trouble in the company continually, that his purpose in writing was to request a transfer to some regiment which had not as yet seen service in the field, either one which had not yet gone into active service or one which had been in it but a short time, that if he should go into such a regiment, there would be less difficulty and less complaint than if he went into one which had been in the service several months, that the 25th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had seen a great amount of hard service and its members thought that if any vacancies occurred, they should be filled by the promotion of those from the ranks who had shown themselves worthy of the position, that he thought it would be for the good of the service if he could be transferred from his present position in the 25th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to one of equal rank in a new regiment just raised, that in this opinion, the field officers of the regiment concurred, that it was by their advice that he wrote to ask a transfer, and that he hoped Buckingham had it in his power to grant the request; and referring Buckingham to a letter from Lieutenant Colonel [William P.] Richardson on the subject written on or about February 1.
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February 27, 1862
A.F. Joseph, M.D., Cumminsville, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that as the Ohio Legislature had granted Tod's request to appoint Surgeons for the suffering troops and as a young practitioner of a few years' practice, he was requesting an appointment as a Surgeon, that such an appointment would be thankfully received by him and his poor mother, that he was a graduate of the regular old alopathic school, and that he could send the best recommendations from medical gentlemen in Hamilton County.
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February 27, 1862
C.A. William Milchsack, Instructor in the New York State Idiot Asylum, Syracuse, New York. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he had served as a three months' volunteer and afterwards honorably passed the examination as company officer before the Military Board of Examination of New York, that without sufficient means to recruit, he had in vain applied to New York authorities for a commission, that he was anxious for an active soldier life, that he took notice of the reported grand movement of troops from Ohio and saw an opportunity to offer his services to Tod, that since the expiration of the three months' term, he had with good success practiced military exercises with some 30 or 40 boys of the New York State Idiot Asylum, that he was a Rhinelander by birth and served in the 28th Prussian Infantry as a one year volunteer, and that he spoke and wrote French and German as well as English almost with ease; and providing references.
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February 27, 1862
John A. Murphy, M.D., State Board of Medical Examiners for the Army, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter requesting that Tod give Richard Wright a 2nd Lieutenancy in one of the Ohio regiments; stating that Wright served well and faithfully in the ranks of the 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry until he was injured and was discharged, that Wright had now recovered his health and deserved something, that Wright was strictly temperate in all his habits and indeed did not drink at all, and that he had known Wright for several years as a young man of great probity and energy of character; and enclosing a certificate from Wright's late officers.
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February 27, 1862
George M. Parsons. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Edward Fisher and John W. Spangler, residents and natives of [Franklin] County and loyal citizens, wished to go to Owensburg, Kentucky on private business, that they had been informed that at some point in the journey they would probably be stopped unless they had passports, and that Buckingham would confer a favor if he could give them such a letter as would facilitate their procuring passes when needed.
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February 27, 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 Percy S. Lowers of Canton, Ohio, formerly Adjutant of the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) and well recommended, desired authority to recruit for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; requesting that Lowers be given the proper authority; stating that Lewis Baker of Cambridge, Ohio represented he could at once recruit twenty-five or thirty men, and that Baker was recommended by the military committee and desired proper authority; and requesting that Baker be given authority to recruit for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
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February 27, 1862
S[amuel] H. Steedman, Colonel, 68th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Fort Donelson, Tennessee. To Governor David Tod. Letter calling Tod's attention to the position of Ohio troops in the area; stating that the Ohio troops would not receive any credit, regardless of the valuable services they might render in the war, unless they were brigaded and placed under the command of Ohio Generals, that in so far as he had an opportunity to converse with Ohioans, there seemed to be a universal dissatisfaction, that a very common expression was "why in God's name can't we have Generals of our own," that they were humiliated being commanded by Illinois and Iowa Generals, and that he was aware that Tod and Buckingham were doing all in their power to change this state of things; asking if Rosecrans or Cox could be transferred to his division of the army; and stating that if this was not possible, it would afford them great relief if Charles R. Wood (Colonel of the 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry) was appointed, that one day Wood commanded their brigade and the next day he was transferred to some other brigade and under some Illinois or Iowa man, that he could not find one solitary man who could account for the surrender of Fort Donelson, that he gave all the credit to the Almighty, that the stolen bonds must have haunted the vision of [John B.] Floyd, that their army was badly whipped, that after two days hard fighting, they had not achieved any greater success at the time of surrender than on the morning of the assault, that two hundred and forty members of the 68th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been very sick with measles and diarrhea brought on by severe exposure, that two cases of measles proved fatal, and that for three days past, they had very pleasant weather which materially improved their health.
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February 27, 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. 43; stating that, having been adversely reported on by Boards of Examination and the President of the United States having approved the report, Captain Charles Mueller, 1st Lieutenant John H. Diehl, and 1st Lieutenant Charles Donely, 51st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were discharged from the service to take effect on February 25, 1862. By command of Major General [George B.] McClellan.
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February 27, 1862
George O. Toms, Lieutenant, 71st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Dave Tod. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that there were a number of citizens and colored men wearing soldiers' overcoats around the streets, that these individuals said most of the overcoats had been given to them by the soldiers and some of the overcoats had been stolen, that the colored men said the officers gave them their coats, that the man he sent to Columbus as a deserter sold his clothes and squandered the money, that he thought it was wrong for a citizen to wear soldiers' clothes, and that if Buckingham said it was wrong for citizens to wear soldiers' overcoats and sent him an order to gather them up, he would do so.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 81]
February 27, 1862
George O. Toms, Lieutenant, 71st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Dave Tod. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that two sick brothers were in the hospital there, that they wanted him to write and see if they could get a furlough to visit their sick mother at home and regain their health, that as soon as these brothers were able for service, they were anxious to again join their regiment, and that he told these brothers he could not grant them a leave of absence until he received orders from Columbus to do so.
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[February 27?, 1862]
William S. Williams, Captain, 3rd Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that according to their morning report, Buckingham would see that they had 148 men in camp, that he wished Buckingham could send them a mustering in officer, and that if it was put off much longer, he was afraid his boys would have as many ills as flesh was heir to.
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February 28, 1862
W.W. Bridge, M.D., Marion, Marion County, Ohio. To the Honorable John Hood. Letter stating that he saw in the Senate Journal that there was a bill pending authorizing the Governor to appoint one additional Surgeon to the Ohio regiments which might stand in want of more medical aid; requesting Hood to call on Judge Bartram and, at some suitable time, to present his case to the Governor; stating that he did not care where they sent him or for pay if additional medical aid was wanted, that he was ready to go, pay or no pay, and that he would come in haste; and citing references.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 154]
February 28, 1862
M.L. Brooks, M.D., U.S. Marine Hospital, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Lieutenant James Armstrong. Letter stating that having examined Charles Stafford, he found him troubled with a chronic disease of the bones of the lower part of the spine which would undoubtedly disable him from long and continued hard labor, and that Stafford was not fit for military duty.
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February 28, 1862
Lewis D. Campbell, Colonel, 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the bearer, J.R. Widgen, believed that in connection with two other young men he could recruit a company for the 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in a very short time; and recommending that Widgen receive an appointment to recruit.
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February 28, 1862
Lewis D. Campbell, Colonel, 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commanding Officer, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To General. Letter stating that they removed 107 men from Prison No. 1 (old) to Prison No. 3 (recently constructed), and 133 men from Prison No. 2 (new) to Prison No. 3, that they received 8 men on February 27 from Newport Barracks, that there were a total of 248 men in Prison No. 3, that 17 men remained in Prison No. 1, 103 men remained in Prison No. 2, and 26 men remained in the hospital after the change, that 107 Ft. Donelson prisoners were received on February 27, that there were a total of 253 men in Prison No. 1 and Prison No. 2, and a total of 248 men in Prison No. 3, that there was a total of 50l prisoners, that owing to the difficulty in procuring the proper data for his report, there might be a slight deviation from the stated numbers, that he would send a complete descriptive list of all prisoners on March 1, and that as much labor as was required to prepare it, some delay was unavoidable.
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February 28, 1862
S. Campbell, Recruiting Officer, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter requesting about twenty suits of clothing together with an order as to where he should forward the men.
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February 28, 1862
J[acob] D. Cox, Brigadier General Commanding, District of the Kanawha, Headquarters, Charleston, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Major [Lyman J.] Jackson of the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was about to visit Columbus, that he took this opportunity to urge that a company be assigned to the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to fill it up, that from July 1, 1861, until a few weeks since, only eight companies had been with the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry now had nine companies, but no regiment in the service had a better claim to be filled up, that the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been performing the most laborious and active duties in the field during a whole campaign and every reason existed why its numbers should be made full, that some sixty whole regiments had been raised and equipped while the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had thus been at work, that the mere fact the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been out of sight in the mountains of western Virginia seemed to have caused it to be out of mind at the Adjutant General's office at Columbus, that the officers and men felt neglected, that they thought, and rightly, that their active and dangerous service should be a claim to remembrance and be the means of having their wants more promptly supplied, and that if any regiment had to wait for its complement of men, it should be one of the new ones and not a veteran battalion which had been on duty steadily since April 1861; requesting Tod's immediate attention to the matter; stating that his duties had prevented him from writing a letter of personal congratulations on Tod's inauguration as he had intended to do, that he trusted there was no need to provide assurance of his satisfaction with Tod assuming a post of which the dignity and responsibility had been vastly increased by the troubles of the country, and that they were anxiously awaiting an opportunity to take a more active part in the movements now going on so gloriously, feeling that the more important part of their duties there were completed the previous summer and that they might properly hope to be removed ere long to one of the great lines of operation, east or west; and requesting that he be remembered kindly to Judges Hoffman and Day and also to Tod's family.
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February 28, 1862
J[ohn] H. Finfrock, Captain, 64th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that being home on sick leave, he wanted to obtain a few recruits as sickness and death had reduced his company; and requesting transportation for a few men from Van Wert, Ohio to Louisville, Kentucky.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 166]
February 28, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Orders No. 184, stating that the resignation of 1st Lieutenant Z.S. Adkins, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on February 28, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
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February 28, 1862
E[dward] H. Phelps, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 38th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Smithland, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter recommending that the vacancy in Company I occasioned by the promotion of Captain M[oses] R. Brailey be filled by 1st Lieutenant [Edward D.A.] Williams of the same company, that 2nd Lieutenant [Thomas W.] Wright of the same company be promoted to 1st Lieutenant, and that Orderly Sergeant Elisha Fewlass of the same company be promoted to 2nd Lieutenant; and stating that Williams, Wright, and Fewlass were competent and efficient officers and had fairly earned promotion, that he had written General Delano quite fully regarding promotion to fill vacancies in field offices, that he did not desire to decide between Captains [William] Stough and [Charles] Greenwood, but would leave it to be determined by their own company friends, that both Stough and Greenwood were good officers and would be satisfied with the decision of the Governor, that they hoped the appointments might be made from the officers in the regiment, that there was no question as to who was entitled to the first promotion, that Captain [William A.] Choate was senior Captain and the most able man, and he spoke of Stough and Greenwood in case of two promotions being made, that their regiment was in much better condition and was improving all the while, and that he had not had the assistance of either a field or staff officer for more than a month.
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February 28, 1862
James C. Richart, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that all there were satisfied that the 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry had "gone up", that an effort was made to get the men to go as infantry, but without avail, and that a great majority were anxious to go in artillery; requesting an order to raise a battery out of the regiment; and stating that in one hour, he could fill it with as good men as ever handled a swab, and that he had consulted Colonel [William R.] Lloyd and wrote with his approval.
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February 28, 1862
George D. Ruggles, Assistant Adjutant General, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter reporting that Captain Wilson M. Stanley, 32nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Captain D.C. Howard, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1st Lieutenant Albert Ritter, 28th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 2nd Lieutenant F. Wagner, 47th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had resigned effective on the dates specified.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 45]
February 28, 1862
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that Captain Phillip J. Theis of Cincinnati, Ohio, an experienced officer, had twenty-two men recruited and would undoubtedly fill up a company for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry if authorized, and that Theis wanted to send his men to camp at once; requesting that Theis be granted authority to recruit a company for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; calling the Adjutant General's attention to his request to have Emanuel Preston of Cincinnati appointed as assistant to Lieutenant F. McGrew; and stating that Preston had quite a number of men, but did not feel disposed to put them in camp until he got his appointment.
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