March 3, 1862
S.B. Smith, Hamersville, Brown County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter requesting authority to recruit for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 206]

March 3, 1862
P.H. Watson, Assistant Secretary of War, War Department, Washington City, D.C. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the Secretary of War directed him to inform Tod that his letter recommending the appointment of Sergeant Robert K. Seig, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to a Lieutenancy in the regular army had been received and duly filed with others for consideration when a vacancy occurred.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 235]

March 4, 1862
James R. Challen, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he had received additional information in writing and orally since last addressing Tod, that he had accumulated proof of fraud and oppression practiced in the 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry without the condemnation of the Colonel if not with his connivance and consent, that it did not detract from the importance of the matter that the parties on whom it had been practiced were loath to make it known fearing they would be impressed into the service again, that several men had obtained discharges signed by the Colonel by paying large sums of money, that this could be proven if the persons who had been discharged were allowed to testify without being held, that it was a criminal practice for them as well as for those who received the money, that the persons who were discharged had been threatened, so he was informed, with arrest and enrollment in their respective places if they said one word about it, that many of the most prominent and respectable citizens of Hamilton County and vicinity had spoken and written to him on this and kindred subjects, but as it had been under injunction of secrecy, he was not at liberty to make them known, that Colonel [Lewis D.] Campbell was a most bitter, implacable, and relentless man, and would not "scruple" to ruin anyone who incurred his enmity, that this was so well known that men were exceedingly cautious how they opposed Campbell, that he was not personally cognizant of the frauds and exactions charged, but as the gentlemen in question were known by him to be honest and truthful and were perhaps unknown to Tod, he had taken the liberty to testify that he believed what they said and therefore added his own word to the strength of theirs, and that he was doing what he conceived to be an imperative duty. Together with a printed circular dated February 18, 1862, of the law firm of Cranch & Challen, Cincinnati.
4 pp. [Series 147-27: 112]

March 4, 1862
William O. Collins, Lieutenant Colonel, 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter requesting that Charles H. Hunter be commissioned as Adjutant of the battalion of cavalry furnished from the 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in its consolidation with the 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; and stating that Hunter had acted as Adjutant and drillmaster of the battalion since February 12, that Hunter's appointment would be satisfactory to officers and men, and that if Hunter's commission could be dated as of February 12, it would be but justice.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 137]

March 4, 1862
Joel B. Crabb, New Holland, Pickaway County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter enclosing a recommendation from Colonel Charles H. Sargent of the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry for him to recruit a company for his regiment; and stating that he did not know how many men he could get, but he would endeavor to recruit a considerable number if Buckingham gave him the necessary authority, that he was confident he could recruit a good number in a short time, that whatever he did, he would do quickly, and that if Buckingham felt disposed to grant him the requisite authority, he would give a good account of himself.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 207]

March 4, 1862
George C. Dodge, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that his son, W.S. Dodge, Battalion Quartermaster of the 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry now at Leavenworth, Kansas, wished to resign and to have Sergeant T. Reeve Spencer take his place, that Spencer was an excellent young man, son of Colonel T.P. Spencer of Cleveland, and that in order to get the appointment of Quartermaster, Spencer must have a Lieutenant's commission; and requesting that Tod send a commission for Spencer.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 168]

March 4, 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. 59; stating that the resignation of Chaplain L[eander] H. Long, 26th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on March 4, 1862. By command of Brigadier General [Don Carlos] Buell.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 200]

March 4, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri. To the Governor of Ohio. Extract from Special Orders No. 199; stating that the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant C.B. Krause, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on March 4, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 199]

March 4, [1862]
S.H. Lee, Assistant Surgeon, 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Eckley, near Cairo, Illinois. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that on January 9, 1862, a paper issued from Buckingham's office appointing him Assistant Surgeon for the 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that the paper had been lost in the mail; and requesting that another paper be sent to him at Cairo as soon as convenient.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 196]

March 4, 1862
Ferd[inand] F. Rempel, Lieutenant Colonel, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Office of Rempel's Great South-Eastern Ohio Mail-Coach, Express, and Accommodation Line, Logan, Hocking County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter enclosing a letter to Dr. P. Hooper; requesting that Tod forward said letter to Hooper if not objectionable; and stating that he was suffering some with severe sore throat (diphtheria) which he believed he caught not being used to warm rooms, and that he would leave Logan as soon as he dared absent himself.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 197]

March 4, 1862
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Lieutenant James Reynolds. Letter stating that Joseph B. Quimby of Hamilton County, Ohio was duly empowered and authorized to recruit for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as Reynolds' assistant, that as a recruiting officer, Quimby would be governed by the rules and regulations for enlisting volunteers from Ohio for U.S. service, and that Quimby would be respected and recognized as a recruiting officer.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 203]

March 4, 1862
C.H. Sargent, Colonel, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Lieutenant L.C. Simmons. Letter stating that William Bryant of Hamilton County, Ohio was duly empowered and authorized to recruit for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as Simmons' assistant, that as a recruiting officer, Bryant would be governed by the rules and regulations for enlisting volunteers from Ohio for U.S. service, and that Bryant would be respected and recognized as a recruiting officer.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 203]

March 4, 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 William Peacock of Clarksburgh, Ross County, Ohio desired authority to recruit a company for the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Peacock and ten others holding assistant's appointments to recruit for cavalry wished to organize an infantry company and felt this could be done at once, and that with authority and transportation, they hoped to have a large detachment in camp by Saturday next; and requesting that Peacock be granted authority.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 206]

March 4, 1862
S.F. Shaw, Recruiting Lieutenant, 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that not knowing what was to be done with him, or rather what he might expect in the way of an appointment or whether he was to receive any at all, led him to address Buckingham, that when he accepted a recruiting commission in the 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, it was at the solicitation of both officers and men of the regiment and with the understanding that he would have a commission in the regiment in consideration of past military experience and services, that the day before the regiment received marching orders, Colonel [John W.] Sprague said he would reserve the first occurring vacancy for him if possible, that the idea of being dismissed from the service did not exactly suit him nor did he like the other one of waiting for a vacancy in these times of onward movements, that he would much prefer a place in the 36th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 39th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, or 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that in all of these regiments, he had many friends and assisted in recruiting men, that he had done more in the 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry than in any other, that he had the honor of presenting to the 39th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry its present regimental flag from his company of the reserve, that he presumed he could send such recommendations as Buckingham might wish from officers of the three regiments, that he desired an appointment in one of the three regiments as soon as possible if consistent with justice, that Captain [W.] Craig advised him to go to Columbus and present his claims, saying that he deserved an appointment if anyone did, that he was obliged to leave Virginia last Spring for being loyal and was now without employment, that he had served a three months' term as Captain in the Militia of the Reserve on the line of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad and had held a commission in a Virginia regiment for years before the war broke out, and that he spent many days in the past nine months drilling different companies without compensation, but hoped to soon receive an appointment where he could be of service to the country; and requesting that Buckingham refer to his application dated November 30, 1861, for an Adjutancy.
3 pp. [Series 147-27: 168]

March 4, 1862
"Shorte", Camp Becket. To Messrs. Editors, [Cincinnati] Commercial. Letter stating that many of the Commercial's readers with relatives and friends in the 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry might be interested to know how the regiment was progressing, that the regiment was up one day and reduced in numbers the next, that officers took paupers who never could pass a mustering officer, swore them in, clothed them completely, and fed them well for a few days, that these men could not perform duty so they were sent to the hospital to remain there awhile, after which time the doctor pronounced them unfit for service and they were again set out upon the charity of the world, that he knew of no less than eighteen cases which had occurred as described, that the regiment was bordering on a demoralized condition and should be looked after by the head authorities, that many of the officers showed signs of a little too much "red eye" and consequently abused their men, that if the officers wished their men to do right, they should certainly set the example, that there was a death which occurred from intemperance on Sunday last, that the deceased was Patric Herne from Cleveland, Ohio, that instead of a physician being called, Herne was allowed to lay in his tent and die as if there was no medical aide within a thousand miles of camp, that Major Avey had been lying in a critical condition from the effects of an overdose of laudanum and had not entirely recovered, and that there was no telling when they would leave Camp Becket as they had been lying there for six months.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 195]

March 4, 1862
"Shorte", Camp Becket, Hamilton. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was doing what the country required of any honest, upright soldier and citizen when exposure was required in order to have matters rectified or "straightened", that what he wished to communicate was in regard to the 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry under Colonel [S.J.] McGroarty, that the demoralized condition of said regiment certainly required Tod's attention, that there was only one of the staff officers who kept himself in any way sober, and that was Major Becket, that sobriety to the rest would certainly be a miracle, that the Captains and Lieutenants were pretty much in the same condition with but a few exceptions, that a circumstance of a notorious character occurred in camp the other day, that when the companies were called out for dress parade, one of the members was awkward in his drill whereupon his Captain took his gun from him and knocked him down with the butt end of it, that when said soldier attempted to rise, the Lieutenant Colonel prostrated him again with a blow from his sword, that this was but one of many similar occurrences which frequently occurred in camp, that the Sutler kept whiskey by the barrel in his department to supply the officers, that hardly a night passed without the officers and some of their citizen friends congregating in the Quartermaster's department, sitting and playing cards, and drinking whiskey until midnight when they would go forth in the camp and order the long roll beat to get the men out of their tents and into the cold, that these were facts which could be subscribed to by at least one hundred sober, steady men, that if Tod required his name, he could give it, and that he was an officer.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 224]

March 4, 1862
Daniel N. Strayer, Captain, 57th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Mungen, Paducah, Kentucky. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that in his commission as 2nd Lieutenant dated October 18, 1861, there was an error of one letter, that the commission should read Daniel N. Strayer instead of Daniel A. Strayer, that his commission as Captain should also be corrected as the same error occurred in it, and that Tod's earliest attention was solicited.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 160]

March 5, 1862
Halbert B. Case, Late 1st Lieutenant, Company H, 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he heard there was to be a vacancy in the Colonelcy of the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he wished to call Tod's attention to Captain J[oel] F. Asper as a proper officer for promotion, that he had been in the same company as Asper for over nine months, that he had great confidence in Asper as an officer who had demonstrated bravery, energy, and courage, that in the taking of Glenville, Asper unhesitatingly marched at the head of two companies against four times their own number, that the expedition was cautiously managed and carried out in a prudent and energetic manner, that at the battle of Cross Lanes, Asper was among the bravest and coolest on the field, that in the retreat of the four hundred under Major [John S.] Casement, no one deserved more credit than Asper, that Asper was consulted by Casement and in nearly every respect, his advice was made the basis of operations, that at all times, he had found Asper ready to enter the thickest of the conflict, and that he believed Asper deserved promotion for his noble stand at the very beginning of the war and his conduct in the army ever since.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 191]

March 5, 1862
John S. Chapman, 2nd Lieutenant and Prisoner of War, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was desirous of being paroled and wished some information to know if such a thing was possible, that he had resided in Union County, Kentucky, that said county was in possession of federal authorities and always had been, that said county had paid over her last taxes as usual, that his father was clerk of the county court and his uncle was a county judge, that he could establish by as many names as Tod might require, either farmers or businessmen, that confidence was due him and that he would not break a parole if he was so fortunate as to receive one, that if he received a parole, he wanted permission to visit Union County, Kentucky and to remain there until exchanged or even a shorter time, that he also proposed to give bond for appearance if such a thing was required, and that the sympathies of Union County, Kentucky were very strongly with the South and he would therefore not render himself obnoxious.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 236]

March 5, 1862
Ichabod Corwin, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Jeremiah Mahoney, a Private in Company C, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was at Urbana without means of transport to his regiment which was said to be at Paw Paw Tunnel, Virginia, that Mahoney told him he was sick at home and on leave when the regiment left Urbana and that since his recovery, he had not the means or opportunity to rejoin his regiment, that he did not know how such things were managed, and that Mahoney was a good, honest-looking man and the soldier he represented himself to be; and asking if Buckingham or the Quartermaster General could send him a transportation certificate for Mahoney.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 220]

March 5, 1862
J[udson] N. Cross, Captain, Company K, 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter stating that O[rlando] P. Brockway of the 12th Ohio Battery had been Orderly Sergeant of Company C, 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry for six months, during which time he was 1st Lieutenant of the same company, that Brockway was a brave, skillful, industrious, and most truly faithful officer, and discharged all his duties in a masterly manner, and that it gave him great pleasure to recommend Brockway for a Lieutenancy in the 12th Ohio Battery, knowing that he would honor the commission and all its requirements.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 232]

March 5, 1862
Z. Cushing, Covington, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that from their early acquaintance and cousinship, he took the liberty of writing Buckingham for information, that there were several of their lady friends in Covington who had friends among the rebel prisoners in Columbus, and that the ladies were very anxious to send the prisoners some clothing and comforts which he presumed they greatly stood in need of; asking to whose care the clothing and comforts could be directed so that they would be properly examined and delivered in safety; and stating that he presumed there had been some mode already indicated, but he had not observed any notice of it, and that the friends were very anxious for some relief to reach the prisoners as soon as they knew it would be permitted and in what manner.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 175]

March 5, 1862
W[illiam] H. Hayward, Lieutenant Colonel, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the ammunition had arrived and he would be ready to take the field on Saturday with the remaining battery of their regiment; asking to whom he should report; and stating that he was awaiting orders.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 212]

March 5, 1862
Samuel L. Leffingwell, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he saw that Lieutenant Colonel [Cyrus W.] Grant had been reinstated in the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and Colonel [Frederick C.] Jones had been transferred to the 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that he might be dumb, or probably a fool, but he could not understand why Grant was reinstated and not himself as well; asking for an explanation; and stating that he would like to find out why he was ordered to be mustered out of service, that he knew Brigadier General [Don Carlos] Buell so ordered and that the order was carried out, but he had yet to learn by what higher authority or for what reason, that Buckingham's letter to him at Nicholasville stated that when he was mustered, there were only two companies and that would make his appointment void, that Buckingham's next communication stated that there was no date on the field roll to show when he was mustered, that these statements conflicted somewhat, that he wanted to know if the 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to which he was transferred, was ever to be organized and, if so, whether he would remain on the roster as Major, that he had yet to receive one dime of pay, that despite expending nearly five hundred dollars and being away from home and business for six months, he had gotten nothing in return, that he thought this was hard, that he knew it was a matter of little consequence to Buckingham how matters might terminate in his case and that he could never expect a reinstatement in the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he had been sadly misrepresented and abused, that his only hope for vindication of the abuses heaped upon him would have been through reinstatement in his own regiment where he could have refuted all charges made by Colonel M[oses] B. Walker, that Walker knew this and politely informed him that he would resign if said reinstatement took place, that it had been customary in civilized nations, either in civil or military life, for a person accused of crime to be brought face to face with his accuser and for no punishment to be inflicted unless the person so charged was judged guilty, that neither his superiority of military capacity nor his opposition in politics should have been any reason for such treatment as he had received from both Walker and Governor William Dennison, that he could forgive them both, but could never forget, that he hoped they both lived long enough to enjoy their triumph, that he did not blame the Governor who was influenced by false statements from Walker, that when at Camp Chase, no officer there was better schooled than himself, that he felt a glow of pride when ordered by Buckingham to command the detachment of the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry which went to Gallipolis, but this amounted as a feather now in the scales, that he had been much distressed of late and hardly knew what to do or say, and that the final documents in his case (the pay matters) had been in the hands of the Paymaster General for nearly six weeks and he had gotten no answer as yet.
4 pp. [Series 147-27: 230]

March 5, 1862
W[illiam] R. Lloyd, Colonel, 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Headquarters, Camp Dennison, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Z[enas] A. Northway was selected as Hospital Steward by Surgeon [William B.] Rezner at Camp Hutchins, that Northway was not an enlisted soldier and was not in the service at the time, and that Northway was a proper person for the place; and asking if he or Rezner had the right to muster Northway into the service as a Hospital Steward.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 174]

March 5, 1862
Robert Long, President, and A. Baker, Secretary, Military Committee, Millersburgh, Holmes County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the bearer, Henry Snyder (a Private in Company B, 16th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry), was taken violently sick with typhoid fever on November 18, 1861, while at Camp Tiffin near Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, that by leave of the commanding officer, Snyder was brought home by his father, who was a resident of Hardy Township, Holmes County, Ohio, and tenderly cared for until his disease was entirely removed, that Snyder was anxious to rejoin his regiment, now stationed near Cumberland Gap, Kentucky, and that they recommended Snyder hoping Buckingham would assist him in procuring the necessary means or issue a pass so that he might in due time rejoin his regiment.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 216]

March 5, 1862
J.G. Mohler, Brigade Engineer, Lake P.O., Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that about three months prior to the breaking out of the present rebellion, he was commissioned as Brigade Engineer for the 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Ohio Militia, that he was under the impression that in officering the volunteers, those belonging to the militia who desired to go into active service would receive first consideration and, if found fit, be newly commissioned, that with said view, he addressed a note to the Adjutant General praying for some place in one of the many regiments then forming, that he never even received an answer to his note, that if a man was fit to be a state officer, he should be fit to be a U.S. officer, that if this was not the case, then he had yet to learn of what stuff the military system of Ohio was composed and how unworthy it was of the dignified name "military system", that he would almost as soon trust himself to a lot of school boys armed with nothing but sticks as to the military system of Ohio if it was such a miserable and despicable thing as they could infer from the usage of state military officers, that he had no desire to crowd himself into the service, that if the powers that be did not see fit to accept his humble services, he would be content to remain at home, in ease, inglorious though it might be, that he was appealing to Tod to be appointed to some place in some regiment, be it only a Lieutenancy, and that he would like to be an aide to some Colonel.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 218]

March 5, 1862
James Monroe, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the bearer, H.N. Penfield, wanted an appointment as Quartermaster in the Army, that Penfield was a gentleman of education, business capacity, strict honesty, and hearty patriotism, and that he did not doubt Penfield would do well in such a position as he was seeking.
1 p. [Series 147-27: 139]

March 5, 1862
William Moore, Jr., Degraff, Logan County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he had been discharged from the service of the U.S. on account of physical disability, that he had gained his health and was anxious to return to the service, that he had been Corporal in Company F, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he would be thankful for a position, that he would like either the position of Lieutenant or recruiting officer, or any other honorable position Tod could give him, and that he had not drawn his wages yet; and asking if he could draw them in Columbus.
2 pp. [Series 147-27: 164]

March 5, 1862
Smith Orr, Orrville, Wayne County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter written in behalf of a young man from Orrville now in the army in Kentucky; and stating that Thomas McGill was a 2nd Lieutenant in Company I, 64th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that [Turenne C.] Myers, the Captain of Company I, would probably be promoted to the office of Major, that should said event take place, the desire was to have McGill promoted to the office of Captain of Company I, that McGill was a young man of fine abilities and acquirements, with very sober and steady habits, that McGill was very energetic and untiring in his zeal for the cause, that McGill raised his proportion of the company to which he belonged under the greatest difficulties, discouragements, and hindrances such as would have paralyzed almost anyone else, that if the vacancy referred to should take place and Tod supported McGill, he would extend his warmest thanks, that he was not writing because McGill was his political pet, that he had always been a Whig or a Republican and McGill had always been a Democrat, that thankfully, these distinctions and party lines did not separate their best men now, and that the time was when he and Tod were widely separated by party lines, but now in God's providence they were doing battle together for the Government and for the Union under the same glorious flag of their country, marching to the same music ("Yankee Doodle" and "Hail Columbia"), and with their eyes fixed upon the same glorious principles that warmed and cheered the hearts of their common forefathers in the revolutionary struggle.
4 pp. [Series 147-27: 211]