April 6, 1862
William Palmer, Nevada, Wyandot County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter applying for the position of Lieutenant of infantry; and stating that he was at present recruiting locally, but would be leaving that P.M. for the 15th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
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April 7, 1862
C.D. Adams, and Charles C. Jennings, Secretary, Military Committee of Lake County, Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that they had signed a letter of recommendation the previous week in favor of Lieutenant R[ussell] Hastings of Company I, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry for promotion to the Captaincy of said company, that they subsequently learned that Hastings was 2nd Lieutenant and that S[elleck] B. Warren was 1st Lieutenant of the company, that they presumed that the department was governed by certain rules and regulations in the matter of promotions, that they would do nothing to prejudice the promotion of Lieutenant Warren as they considered him to be an efficient and gallant officer, and that they were writing to the department as an act of justice to Warren.
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April 7, 1862
J.E. Bailey, Colonel, 49th Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers, C.S.A., et. al., Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To ? Letter signed by five prisoners of war; and stating that by order of Major General [Henry] Halleck, they were required to proceed with Colonel George Thom, Aide-de-Camp, U.S. Army from Columbus, Ohio to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, and that they solemnly promised on their parole of honor to accompany Colonel Thom and to report in person to the commanding officer at Fort Warren as ordered.
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April 7, 1862
G[ranville] Moody, Colonel, 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commandant of Post, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter requesting the descriptive records of the prisoners at Camp Chase in order to facilitate the work of making proper selections of field officers to be sent to Fort Warren as per order of General [Henry] Halleck; stating that Mr. Chase, who went in pursuit of the escaped prisoners of the previous Saturday, had but fifty minutes to proceed from Camp Chase to the depot at Columbus, that Chase did not have time to make an abstract of the description of prisoners and so took the descriptive record (containing the rank of the prisoners) with him, and that he must depend on the descriptive record in Tod's office to finish the list required; enclosing passes issued by Tod which had been used improperly; stating that said passes were lacking his signature; referring these cases to Tod; and asking what he should do with Gordon the forger.
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April 7, 1862
G[ranville] Moody, Colonel Commanding Post, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the number of prisoners to town would be 21 and the guards 12.
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April 7, 1862
Robert Murray II, Mentor, Lake County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Captain [Robert B.] Moore of Company I, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had resigned, that Lieutenant S[elleck] B. Warren stood next in command, that Warren was an efficient officer and a reliable young man, that he hoped Tod would appoint Warren as Captain, and that if names were necessary to help Warren to the appointment, he could get two-thirds of the names in Lake County.
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April 1862
Charles T. Sherman, et. al. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by five citizens of Richland County, Ohio; stating that they understood that there was to be an additional Lieutenant appointed in Company D, 25th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; requesting the appointment of Orderly Sergeant Ammi P. Fairbank of said company to fill the office aforesaid; and stating that Fairbank, at the time he entered the service, was a citizen of Richland County, that Fairbank was a very worthy and exemplary man, that they were informed that Fairbank filled his present position well, and that they were confident that Fairbank would make an efficient officer should he be promoted.
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William P. Reid. To ? Letter stating that he was 35 years of age, that he had seen service in Mexico in Company C, 15th U.S. Infantry and lost two fingers of the left hand, that this did not injure him from performing the duties of the office sought, and that he had drawn a pension since his discharge; enclosing a copy of his original allowance, back pay having been allowed to its date; and stating that he could give references and present himself when so required.
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Undated
William P. Reid. Copy of pension paper.
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