February 26, 1862
Thomas A.P. Champlin, 1st Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster, 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. To Colonel J[ohn] W. Sprague. Letter stating that as yet he had been unable to receive any funds and of course could not pay any bills, and that as his health was still very bad and the Doctor thought it very imprudent for him to go into the field, he was obliged to request that Sprague appoint some officer to receipt to him for what property he might have with the regiment and also that Sprague give him instruction regarding what disposition to make of the property he had in store at Marietta after approving his resignation; and requesting that his resignation be returned to him at Marietta so he might forward it to Washington with his papers. Bears an addendum dated March 5, 1862, stating that he had started to join the regiment and got as far as Cairo when, from continued ill health, he was obliged to return. Also bears a note stating that the resignation was sent to Washington to take effect on March 31, 1862.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 62]

February 26, 1862
Valentine Cupp, Captain, and Lafayette Pickering, 1st Lieutenant, Company F, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Headquarters, Camp near Louisville, Kentucky. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter recommending Commissary Sergeant Peter B. Cool as a man qualified in every respect to fill the position of 2nd Lieutenant in Company F vacated by the resignation of Lieutenant Henry G. Ward; and stating that as the regiment was now in the field, they would also recommend that Cool be appointed at the earliest possible moment as the company had absolute need of a 2nd Lieutenant. Bears a note from Minor Milliken, Colonel, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, stating that he was very desirous that Cool be appointed, and that he knew Cool to be worthy and capable. Also bears a note from J[ohn] C. Frankeberger, Lieutenant and Quartermaster, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, stating that Cool had been his Commissary Sergeant for the past three months, that he found Cool to be one of the best men in the regiment, and that he could recommend Cool in the warmest terms for the post of 2nd Lieutenant.
2 pp. [Series 147-29: 99]

February 26, 1862
W[illiam] B. Woods, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Fort Donelson, Tennessee. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter transmitting the recommendation of Captain Jerome N. Rappleyea, Company H for the appointment of 1st Sergeant Calvin G. Wells as 2nd Lieutenant to replace 2nd Lieutenant Lucien H. Wright resigned.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 94]

February 27, 1862
N[icholas] L. Anderson, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp near Nashville, Tennessee. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that there was an urgent need in the present circumstances for more officers in their regiment; requesting that various men be promoted for exceeding energy and efficiency often proven in their nine months' service; stating that they were sadly in need of officers, there being but 12 line officers now present for duty; and requesting that William S. Getty be promoted from 1st Lieutenant to Captain, that Jules J. Montagnier be promoted from 2nd Lieutenant to 1st Lieutenant, that Henry Gee be promoted from Sergeant Major to 2nd Lieutenant, that A[lbert] G. Williams be promoted from 1st Sergeant to 2nd Lieutenant, and that John R. Kestner be promoted from 1st Sergeant to 2nd Lieutenant.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 36]

[February 28?, 1862]
H. Anderman, Treasurer, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. To ? Letter stating that Charles Gentsch, a native of New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, was 20 years of age and Orderly Sergeant in Company K, 51st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Gentsch was a young man of good moral character, wrote a good hand, was an excellent arithmetician, and had made an efficient and energetic soldier in service to which his superiors could bear willing testimony. Bears a note from A.T. Ready to Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham, stating that if a vacancy should occur in Company K, 51st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he hoped Buckingham would appoint Gentsch as it was one eminently fit to be made.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 84]

February 28, 1862
C.H. Babcock, House of Representatives, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was well acquainted with Henry Frisell and had been for several years, that Frisell was a gentleman of excellent character and ability, honest and faithful, that in regard to Frisell's appointment to a Lieutenancy in the 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, he knew that Frisell had been connected with the Quartermaster's Department of said regiment and had performed the duties of said office under the general supervision of Quartermaster [Lyman C.] Thayer, that he was well acquainted with many of the officers and men in the 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, that he knew Frisell was very popular with them and that they wanted him appointed to a Lieutenancy so that he might be detailed as Regimental Quartermaster, and that he was well assured that Frisell's appointment would give general satisfaction in the 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry should a vacancy occur.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 105]

February 28, 1862
J.H. Barnhill, New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that a member of the 51st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had informed him that Captain [Charles] Mueller of Company K had resigned and that 1st Lieutenant [John M.] Hodge of Company K had been promoted to Quartermaster of the regiment creating vacancies in the Captaincy and 1st Lieutenancy of said company, and that the name of [Charles G.] Harger of Company B was being pressed to fill the vacant 1st Lieutenancy, that if he was not mistaken as to the line of promotion, 2nd Lieutenant B[enjamin] F. Croxton of Company K would be first entitled to promotion in his own company unless some good reason existed for doing otherwise, that Croxton had been in Virginia with the 15th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), that Croxton was a very estimable young man, that Croxton was the son of a widow lady of New Philadelphia who sent him into the service at great sacrifice, that Croxton was a fine scholar and a gentleman in all respects, that if Croxton was made 1st Lieutenant of his company as they thought he should be, then Sergeant [Charles] Gench should be promoted to the 2nd Lieutenancy thus made vacant, and that in this manner, Company K would be much fairer dealt with than by promoting 2nd Lieutenant Harger of Company B to 1st Lieutenant of Company K over Croxton and thus opening the line of promotion to the 1st Sergeant of Company B when in justice it should be to the Sergeant of Company K.
2 pp. [Series 147-29: 83]

February 28, 1862
S.O. Griswold. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the bearer, H[enry] Frisell, was formerly of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, that Frisell wanted the appointment of Lieutenant so that he might be detailed as Quartermaster in Colonel [Charles] Doubleday's cavalry regiment [2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry], that he had no way of knowing the standing of the regiment, that he had been acquainted with Frisell for a long time, and that he knew Frisell was of good stock, and was faithful and honest.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 75]

February 28, 1862
Luke Murrin, Quartermaster Sergeant, 10th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Bowling Green, Kentucky. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter stating that he had been recommended for a Lieutenant's commission by the Colonel and Major some time ago, that it had not come to hand as yet, that if commissions were to go by rank, he should have had his two months ago as he was the 12th grade of an officer, that there had been eight commissions issued since his name was first sent off, and that he hoped the Governor would be so kind as to grant his request.
2 pp. [Series 147-29: 31]

February 28, 1862
Felix G. Slone, Captain, Company K, 70th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Paducah, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that in making up the muster in rolls for his company, he omitted Alexander Campbell, age 19, mustered in at Camp Hamer, Ohio on December 11, 1861, and John W. Campbell, age 18, mustered in at Camp Hamer, Ohio on December 11, 1861, and that he was anxious their names should be inserted in the roll in as much as they were at Paducah in service with him and were good soldiers.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 216]

February, 1862
R[utherford] B. Hayes, Lieutenant Colonel, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Fayetteville, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Captain D[ewitt] C. Howard, Company K, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry resigned on January 26, 1862, and his resignation was accepted, that 1st Lieutenant [Abraham A.] Hunter, Company D, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was recommended for promotion to the vacancy thus created, that 1st Lieutenant John F. Wall, Company A, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry resigned on September 19, 1861, and his resignation was accepted, that 2nd Lieutenant R[obert] P. Kennedy, Company F, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was recommended for promotion to the vacancy, that 2nd Lieutenant [George W.] Stevens, Company G, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was recommended for promotion to the vacancy created by the promotion of 1st Lieutenant Hunter, and that Sergeant George Warren, Company B and Martin V. Ritter, Company C, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were recommended for promotion to the 2nd Lieutenancies made vacant by the above promotions.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 11]

March 1, 1862
W[illiam] B. Hazen, Colonel, 41st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Andrew Jackson, near Nashville, Tennessee. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter recommending that Major George S. Mygatt be appointed Lieutenant Colonel to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of [John J.] Wiseman, that Captain Emerson Opdycke be appointed Major, that 1st Lieutenant James McCleery be appointed Captain, that 2nd Lieutenant Calvin C. Hart be appointed 1st Lieutenant, and that 1st Sergeant Ferdinand D. Cobb be appointed 2nd Lieutenant; stating that the recommendations were in conformity with General Orders No. 3, except that of Cobb, that the order could not be carried out to the letter with a due regard to the good of the service, that there had been two Sergeants already appointed from Company A (where the vacancy would be) and there were no other noncommissioned officers in the company suitable or even passable for appointment, that Cobb was by far the best noncommissioned officer who had ever been in the regiment, that he had repeatedly recommended Cobb for promotion and it had as often been disregarded, that the system of invariable promotion by seniority was not practicably applicable to the volunteer service and presupposed that all persons were equally competent, that the last set of promotions made in the 41st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were made without any regard whatever to recommendations from anyone having a right to do so, were "ridiculously absurd", and "gravely pernicious" to the regiment, and that by further reference to the records of the regiment, he found that the recent promotion of [James] Horner to a Captaincy was not even in the order of seniority; and asking upon what principle or for what reason Horner was promoted. Bears a note from W[illiam] Nelson, Brigadier General Commanding, 4th Division, approving and forwarding Hazen's recommendations.
3 pp. [Series 147-29: 55]

March 2, 1862
Thomas Kilby Smith, Colonel, 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, encamped near Paducah, Kentucky, District of Cairo. To Sir. Letter stating that the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had marched from Camp Dennison and was now encamped near Paducah, awaiting further orders; reporting on the organization of the command; recommending certain promotions; requesting that commissions be forwarded to all the officers of the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; reporting that a detachment from the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in cooperation with detachments from other regiments, had proceeded to Columbus, Kentucky under command of General [William T.] Sherman; stating that if opportunity was afforded the detachment, he should be able to give good account of its conduct in the field, that he wished to call attention to a fact which illustrated the patriotism of the brave men he had the honor to command, a fact which should be recorded in their behalf in the history of the Republic, that with clothing nearly worn out, unarmed, without transportation, with but scanty equipment, without pay (many of them having been five months in the service), and having had promises broken, they fearlessly and without a murmur entered rebel territory, that after such self-sacrifice and generous devotion, they now only awaited orders to throw themselves into the conflict, and that a number of enlisted men (Privates in the 54th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry) who had been left behind in the post hospital at Camp Dennison or permitted furloughs on Surgeon's certificates were at Camp Dennison and elsewhere in Ohio anxious to join the regiment and unable to procure transportation; and requesting an order to the commandant of the post at Camp Dennison to facilitate the transportation of these men.
3 pp. [Series 147-29: 66]

March 3, 1862
T.J. Gallagher, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the bearer, Harvy S. Goddard of Cincinnati, was desirous of entering the military service of Ohio, that Goddard already had the nomination and recommendation of Colonel [Peter J.] Sullivan which needed Tod's approval, that Goddard was the son of the Reverend Doctor [Kingston] Goddard of Christ Church, Cincinnati who had devoted much of his time and eminent ability to the cause of the Union, and that he was sure Harvy S. Goddard would not fail to sustain their arms and flag as was his duty as an American citizen and the son of such a father; and requesting Tod's favorable consideration of Harvy S. Goddard's wishes.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 81]

March 4, 1862
John A. Gurley, Washington. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending Luke Murrin for the position of 1st Lieutenant in Company B, 10th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry which he understood was now vacant; and stating that Murrin was qualified and deserving.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 31]

March 5, 1862
A[lfred] McVeigh, Senate Chamber, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Peter Cool, a Private in Company F, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry had been recommended for appointment as 2nd Lieutenant in said company to replace [Henry G.] Ward resigned, that Cool was a citizen of his county, and that he had no doubt Cool was the proper person to be appointed.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 97]

March 6, 1862
Herman Canfield, Lieutenant Colonel, 72nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Paducah, Kentucky. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Captain T[heodore] M. Thompson, Lieutenant T. M[ilton] Wiliamson, Lieutenant W[illiam] H. Skerritt, and Lieutenant Caleb G. Goshorn of the 72nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had not as yet received their commissions, that they requested that their commissions be sent, and that Thompson thought his commission ought to be dated January 4, 1862, at which time he took a full company into camp.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 120]

March 6, 1862
Eli Nichols, Wolfpen Spring, near Newcastle, Coshocton County, Ohio. To My Dear General. Letter stating that his son, C[larkson] C. Nichols, was 1st Lieutenant in Company K, 32nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that the company and friends of the company had been deceived and imposed on by late Captain [Wilson M.] Stanley, that influenced partly by letters from the company, nearly every friend of Company K would gladly sign a petition for his son to be promoted to Captain, that the company would have given his son the Captaincy at the outset, but considering his youth, he and his son insisted on the company electing Stanley, that it was hoped Stanley would do well given his Mexican War service, that at first, his son wrote that the company had been so demoralized by Stanley's neglect and opposition to good order that he did not care to be promoted, that the application heretofore made was at the request of his son's friends in the company to whom, as most parents perhaps would, he yielded, that in his son's last letter, he informed him that the boys were doing so well that he would accept a promotion with thankfulness, that Newcastle Township had sent relatively more men to the army than any other area in Coshocton County or the neighboring township of Knox, and that Company K could not have been made up without the active aid of his son's friends, yet he was the only officer from Newcastle Township.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 8]

March 6, 1862
William Raine, 2nd Lieutenant, Company G, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Andrew Jackson, Tennessee. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he held the office of 2nd Lieutenant in Company G, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that he was commissioned on June 22, 1861, that three 2nd Lieutenants of the 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who he ranked, had lately overstepped him by being promoted to 1st Lieutenants in the regiment, that he asked Colonel W[illiam] S. Smith about this seeming injustice and was told that the matter was to him unexplainable, that Smith advised him to address Buckingham on the subject so that the oversight, if such it was, might be corrected, and that he hoped Buckingham would favor him with an explanation of the subject.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 24]

March 7, 1862
William H. Gibson, Colonel, 49th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, et. al., Camp Andy Johnson, Tennessee. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter signed by sixteen officers of the 49th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that Captain [George E.] Lovejoy of Company I, 49th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry having resigned his position, the undersigned presented and urged the name of Lyman W. Moe of the same company for the vacancy, that Moe had been with the regiment and was deservedly popular with the entire command and especially his own company, and that Moe was of a military turn of mind, had some experience, and was an industrious, vigorous, and intelligent man.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 19]

March 7, 1862
O[scar] F. Moore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 33rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Andrew Jackson. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter recommending the appointment of Sergeant George C. Winkler of Company E as 2nd Lieutenant of said company in the place of 2nd Lieutenant Milton C. Peters resigned; and stating that the appointment of Winkler was recommended on December 8, 1861, and handed to Brigadier General O[rmsby] M. Mitchel to be forwarded, that by some inadvertence, the recommendation was not forwarded, that supposing his commission would be sent to him in due time, Winkler entered at once upon the discharge of the duties of his office and had ever since acted as the 2nd Lieutenant of Company E, that Winkler had been mustered and had already received the pay of 2nd Lieutenant, and that if possible, Winkler's appointment ought to date back to December 8, 1861.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 3]

March 7, 1862
A.G. Sutton, Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that while in Cleveland on March 6, 1862, he learned with much regret that his son had resigned his commission in the 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that if this was true, he hoped that Sergeant [Salem T.] Howe of Huron County, and currently in the recruiting service, would not be neglected, that although he and Howe had never been of the same political party until after the fall of Ft. Sumter, he did hope that no suggestion of his would be in the way of Howe's promotion, that from his own military experience and what he had seen in the service, he regarded Howe as a suitable person for a commission, from the highest to the lowest, to command or to be a subaltern in any company in the volunteer or regular service, that Howe was and always had been strictly temperate, and that Howe was a good scholar and a man of good moral character.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 26]

March 8, 1862
O.P. Brown, Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that their friend, Lieutenant L[ewis] D. Booth, requested him to write Buckingham again, that there was now a vacancy in Company F, 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry occasioned by the resignation of the Lieutenant Colonel, that it seemed to him by every principle of right that Booth should have the appointment, that Booth raised more men for Company F than any other man, and that he trusted it was now in Buckingham's power (or soon would be) to see that Booth got his position and that justice was done him.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 78]

March 8, 1862
H[enry] F. Hyman, Captain, Battery I, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Clarksburgh, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that having received through General [William S.] Rosecrans enough men to fill up his batteries and a few more, he was requesting Buckingham to send him two additional commissions, that one of the commissions was for Lieutenant [Joseph D.] King as 1st Lieutenant, that King already had an appointment from Ohio dated November 18, 1861, that the other commission was for Louis Doerr, that Doerr had been his Quartermaster Sergeant and had shown himself in every respect well worthy of a commission, that Doerr had in every way, both in the field and in general life, shown himself to be a good soldier, that Doerr was well drilled and tireless in his duty, that he had more men than he needed and Rosecrans was trying to get him eight guns, that Rosecrans told him he should have all he could manage, that he had received nearly everything he needed for his battery, that he was sent away from Camp Dennison not one quarter fitted out, that the only articles he could not get at Clarksburgh were boots and reinforced or any other pants, and that they felt the want of them.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 121]

March 8, 1862
George W. Maris, Post Surgeon, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To ? Letter stating that the bearer, Thomas J. Armstrong, reported himself as being in a condition to join his regiment (1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry), that Armstrong's furlough would expire on March 10, and that Armstrong was, on due examination of his furlough, entitled to a pass or certificate over the road to his regiment wherever he might find it.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 48]

March 8, 1862
R.F. Wheeler, 1st Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp to Colonel [Jacob] Ammen, Commanding 10th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, Headquarters, Nashville, Tennessee. To Colonel J. Buttles, Columbus, Ohio. Letter stating that he had long thought of writing and asking Buttles to present the claims of [Thomas] Gwynne, Company A, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to the Governor for promotion, that Gwynne was a good soldier and a gentlemanly young man, and that by his sobriety and intelligence, Gwynne had won the esteem of all whose regard was worth having; and requesting that Buttles speak to the Governor about Gwynne.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 58]

March 9, 1862
R[obert] Murray, Surgeon, U.S.A., Medical Director, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, Medical Director's Office, Nashville, Tennessee. To Dr. I[srael] A. Coons, 38th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp near Nashville, Tennessee. Letter stating that Coons' letter had been received, that General [Don Carlos] Buell had decided in a similar case that he could take no action, and that if Coons wrote an application to the Governor of Ohio for reappointment to date from the time he was dropped, Buell would approve the application.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 7]

March 10, 1862
E. Foster, Bryan, Williams County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was advised that Colonel [Edwin D.] Bradley, late in command of the 38th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, had resigned his position and that no appointment had yet been made to fill the vacancy thus caused; recommending their mutual friend, Erastus H. Leland of Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio, as a very suitable person to fill that vacancy; and stating that there was no question as to Leland's ability to fill the position honorably to himself and profitably to the nation, that Leland's experience acting as Adjutant of the 38th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, together with an early military education under the old militia laws, doubtless rendered him sufficiently versed in military tactics to promptly assume and execute any command the station could require, and that he made this recommendation not only of his own choice, but also at the urgent request of good and true men from his section of the State whose hearts were patriotic and who were zealous in the glorious work of crushing the rebellion.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 45]

March 10, 1862
John Grose, Company C, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Andrew Jackson, Nashville, Tennessee. To Jessie Baldwin. Letter requesting that Baldwin use his influence to get a Lieutenant's commission for John H. Roberts, a Private in Company C, 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that it was ridiculous to see so many "brainless" officers set over to govern good men, and that Roberts would make his mark upon the pages of history.
4 pp. [Series 147-29: 48]

March 10, 1862
H[enry] F. Hyman, Captain, Battery I, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Clarksburgh, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the person seeking a commission was Charles J. Gillis, that Gillis was at one time in Captain C[harles] S. Cotter's company and refused to be mustered into the service because he was not made a Lieutenant, that he did not know how Gillis had gotten the recommendation which he said he had, that as far as he could see and hear, Gillis knew very little about artillery, and that he understood Gillis had some trouble before at Columbus.
1 p. [Series 147-29: 122]