April 25, 1862
L[ionel] A. Sheldon, Colonel, 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending the appointment of 1st Lieutenant William W. Olds to the Captaincy in place of Captain F[rederick] A. Williams promoted, and that 2nd Lieutenant William H. Clapp be promoted to a 1st Lieutenancy and made Adjutant of the regiment.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 102]

April 25, 1862
William D. Stone, Captain, Company I, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that owing to the peculiar circumstances by which Mercer County was surrounded from the fact of their having three companies in the 71st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry which was said to have disgraced itself at Pittsburg [Shiloh] on April 6, he placed himself under Tod's notice to make a request, that if more troops were needed, he desired the privilege of raising a company to prove that Mercer County both could and would fight, that he had the honor last Spring to command a company from Mercer County which, for its promptness, energy, gallantry, and discipline, was commended by all the officers of the regiment, and that it was Company I of the 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service); citing references; and stating that he firmly believed that no set of men on "God's footstool" had better "game" than Mercer County, that he was in the Mexican War for fourteen months and in several engagements, that he assisted in raising two companies in Mercer County after his return last Summer, that his reasons for not re-entering the service were of a purely personal character connected with his family, and that the 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) had not yet received their discharges.
4 pp. [Series 147-32: 101]

April 25, 1862
L[orenzo] Thomas, Adjutant General, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Colonel J[ames] A. Garfield's letter of February 15, 1862, endorsed by Tod, recommending the discharge of James F. Jones and William Segraves, prisoners of war at Camp Chase, Ohio, was duly submitted to the Secretary of War, that the Secretary of War declined to grant their release, and that the same was his decision in the case of Oliver A. Patton.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 98]

April 25, 1862
Thomas W. Williams, Company F, 30th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he received an order from the Lieutenant of his company to return forthwith and join the regiment, that he went as far as Wheeling and received orders from General [John C.] Fremont to remain at Washington, Ohio until exchanged or discharged, and that Fremont also told him to apprise Tod every thirty days of his whereabouts.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 78]

April 26, 1862
John W. Church, Canton, Stark County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter regarding the Majorship of the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that [James M.] Nash was Captain of Company B and was in the battle of Shiloh, that he was informed that Nash did his part nobly, and that Nash's appointment would greatly gratify all his friends.
3 pp. [Series 147-32: 179]

April 26, 1862
J[ames] A. Garfield, Brigadier General, Headquarters, 20th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, Pittsburg, Tennessee [Shiloh]. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he would most cheerfully adopt Buckingham's suggestion in regard to Mr. Norris if he had not already made his staff appointments, that he arrived at Shiloh in time to be in the engagement two hours on Monday [April 7], that although his brigade was under fire during that time, it did not get an opportunity to do much in return, and that he very much regretted that the 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry could not be with him.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 205]

April 26, 1862
George W. Gregg, Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that the enclosed letter would explain itself, that he could bear testimony as to the good material (of which soldiers were supposed to be made) in the writer, and that the promotion of the writer would give satisfaction to the local citizenry.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 32]

April 26, 1862
John S. Mathews, Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was in receipt of intelligence that the 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry was ordered into active service, that he recruited men for said regiment which entitled him to retain his position as Lieutenant, that at the time of making up the muster roll, he was at home ill and on sick leave, that in the organizing, his name was stricken or left off the muster roll, that on February 6, 1862, he received notice of being mustered out of service from January 4, 1862, that he protested against this unusual proceeding because officers were commissioned who had not done any service or recruited a man for the 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, that Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham declined to inform him of the cause of his being deprived of his commission, that on appealing to Tod, he received assurances that he would be advised of the reason (if not detrimental to the service), that no cause having been given, he supposed good reason influenced Tod in declining to send him an explanation, that he recruited the men for the purpose of going with them into the service and pledged his word to do so, that to be deprived of his position and no reason assigned was hard enough, that to be obliged to give up the recruits which enlisted with him, receiving assurances that his purpose was to accompany them, was a great mortification, that Colonel [William R.] Lloyd had supposedly represented that he did not want to go with the regiment and if he did, the men did not desire it, that if any such representation had been made, it was untrue, that if not detrimental to the service, he requested Tod to restore him to the position he was entitled to in the 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, that if this was impracticable, he requested that a court of inquiry in his case be convened so that justice might be done, and that he was deprived of his position without cause.
2 pp. [Series 147-32: 97]

April 27, 1862
And[rew] C. Kemper, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee [Shiloh]. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Field Orders No. 29; stating that the portion of Special Field Orders No. 17, issued on April 20, 1862 by Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, which directed that 1st Lieutenant Ezra Bennett, 13th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery be mustered out of service was revoked, and that Bennett would be attached to some battery for temporary duty. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 83]

April 27, 1862
And[rew] C. Kemper, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee [Shiloh]. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Field Orders No. 29; stating that 2nd Lieutenant Emil Schmidt and 2nd Lieutenant Adolphus Schmidt, 8th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery had absented themselves from their company without proper authority and were mustered out of the service of the United States to take effect on April 27, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 91]

April 28, 1862
E[phraim] R. Eckley, Colonel, 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Hamburg Landing, Tennessee River. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had the honor to report that the 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was situated on the west bank of the Tennessee River, six miles above Pittsburgh [Shiloh] in General [John] Pope's division, that they had seven hundred and eleven fit for duty and thirty-five in hospital at Paducah, [Kentucky], that all officers were fit for duty except one 2nd Lieutenant, and that they were under marching orders and would advance six miles in the direction of Corinth.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 203]

April 28, 1862
Charles W. Fearns, Lieutenant, 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Johnson's Island, Sandusky, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had not yet received his appointment as 1st Lieutenant in Captain [William H.] McGroarty's company, that he was now at Johnson's Island with the company until further orders, having been sent there by Colonel [Newton] Schleich in obedience to Buckingham's orders, and that when his appointment reached him, he could be mustered in by Captain Reed of the 8th U.S. Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 100]

April 28, 1862
C.W. Gilmore, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that Joseph England was a Private in Company B, 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that when his regiment left Chillicothe for Marietta, England was very sick, that when the regiment left Marietta for the south, England attempted to join it but was again taken sick, that England had made three attempts to join the regiment within the last three or four weeks, that England asked his Lieutenant (Frank T. Gilmore), his Chaplain (Benjamin St. James Fry), and the sutler to take him, but they all made excuses, that England had just received a letter directing him to join his regiment by a certain day or he would be arrested as a deserter, that the letter was sent to the wrong office and the time had elapsed, and that England had no money and knew not where to get any; requesting Buckingham to write him on the subject; and stating that the information would be of service to others besides England.
2 pp. [Series 147-32: 100]

[April 28?, 1862]
H[enry] C. Hatfield, 1st Lieutenant, Company A, et. al., 34th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by thirteen commissioned officers of the 34th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; stating that since the office of Colonel had become vacant by the promotion of A. Sanders Piatt, they naturally felt great anxiety as to who his successor should be, and that after seven months' service in the field with the two now holding the offices of Lieutenant Colonel and Major, they expressed their preference for Major F[reeman] E. Franklin for Colonel; and requesting that Tod give their representations due consideration when making the appointment of Colonel.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 185]

April 28, 1862
Rodney J. Hathaway, 1st Sergeant, Company G, 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Woodstock, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had received an order dated April 2, 1862, stating that as he had failed to recruit a sufficient number of men to entitle him to a position and as the time assigned him for enlisting a company had expired, his appointment had been revoked and that he was to return his papers for cancellation, that after receiving his appointment as recruiting Lieutenant of the 45th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he exerted himself to the best of his ability in order to recruit a company, that meeting with poorer success than expected, he recruited only twelve men, that their regiment was then consolidated with, or rather transferred to, the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that before leaving Camp Tod, Cleveland, Ohio, the fragments of companies were consolidated by Lieutenant Colonel A[lvin] C. Voris so as to form three companies and an election of officers ordered by him, that his squad was joined with those of Lieutenant V. Heckman and Lieutenant George Emerson, and the result of the election was V. Heckman chosen Captain, George Emerson 1st Lieutenant, and himself 2nd Lieutenant, that this was in conformity with the instructions in their papers that no man recruiting a less number of men should be placed in command over them and all was satisfactory both to men and officers, that they went to Camp Chase not dreaming that there was to be any but fair means used to secure position, that Voris asked him for his appointment and enlistment roll, stating that he wished to examine them, that a few days after, he asked Voris for his appointment papers and was told that they were either lost or mislaid, that so matters stood for a week or more when one day Voris came to him and said that the Governor of Ohio would not confirm the appointment and that he had already commissioned A.P. Girty, who had never recruited a single man, as 1st Lieutenant and George Emerson as 2nd Lieutenant, that as a result, he was thrown out entirely, that so it was that an officer who had done no recruiting had been thrust upon them to the detriment of Emerson and himself who had labored and spent some considerable money for the sake of recruiting men for the regiment, that he then saw it was too late for him, but was determined to serve his country, that he could not return home and, after some reflection, accepted the appointment of Orderly Sergeant in Company G, 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he had been with the regiment in the field ever since, that as to the pay for his recruiting services, he had not expected it, that a correct account of his disbursements for subsistence of the men prior to going into camp was made out and accepted by the Assistant Quartermaster, U.S.A. at Columbus before they left, that it had not been paid yet, that his papers were given to Voris so he was unable to send them, and that his recruits all came into the service with him.
4 pp. [Series 147-32: 208]

April 28, 1862
J.C. Jeffries, Joseph Ferrell, J[onathan] Maffett, Louis B. Lott, A. Thorpe, Thomas Wilson, R.R. Titus, J.S. Reisinger, and George L. Converse, Representative Hall, State Capitol, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter enclosing a communication from Adjutant A[lexander] S. Ramsey, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who desired promotion to the position of Major of said regiment; and stating that being intimately acquainted with the applicant, they took great pleasure in recommending Ramsey to Tod's favorable consideration as a gentleman of unquestionable sobriety, morality, and integrity, and that Ramsey was eminently qualified in every sense for the position to which he aspired.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 125]

April 28, 1862
Andrew C. Kemper, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Field Orders No. 32; stating that the resignations of Assistant Surgeon L[afayette] Woodruff, 57th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Chaplain James Knapp, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 2nd Lieutenant J[acob] Heitzmann, 8th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery were accepted to take effect on April 28, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 230]

April 28, 1862
Eli Nichols, Wolfpen Spring near Newcastle, Coshocton County, Ohio. To My Dear General. Letter regarding the resignation of his son, Clarkson C. Nichols, from the 1st Lieutenancy of Company K, 32nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; stating that according to his son, Colonel [Thomas H.] Ford had never drilled the regiment except on dress parade and the Lieutenant Colonel only a few times at Camp Dennison and never in Virginia, that his son was examined by a board of examiners largely on regimental drill and was asked scarcely a word on the duties pertaining to a Lieutenant, that he was truly sorry for Colonel Ford's efforts to disgrace his son, and that they had a "hard corner" there, almost "secesch", and with the popularity his son was rapidly acquiring, he could have added much strength to the country's cause; enclosing a clipping as a sample of the kind of letters the company wrote home; and stating that his son would cheerfully have remained Lieutenant if Colonel Ford had in a manly and kind manner asked him not to aspire to the Captaincy, as he had promised it to another, and would not desire now to return as Captain.
5 pp. [Series 147-32: 77]

April 28, 1862
L.C. Simmons, 2nd Lieutenant, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that he had reported 33 or 34 men, that his son had attended to his business since he had been sick, that he had not been out of his house for nearly 6 weeks, but was now able to go about some, that he was not credited with all his men who went away first, that Colonel [C.H.] Sargent told him he would get credit for all and promised to see that he received his commission as he was not able to attend to it himself, that he wanted Buckingham to send the commission, that if there was no vacancy for him now, perhaps there would be one soon, that if anyone in the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had earned a commission, he had, that he had worked hard all the time and spent a great deal of money, that he had been in the military business for 10 or 12 years, that as soon as he was able, he would make out his recruiting bill and go to Columbus, and that his men were much dissatisfied because he did not go with them.
2 pp. [Series 147-32: 104]

[April 29?, 1862]
B[enjamin] A. High, et. al. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by thirteen members of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio; and stating that they were acquainted with Lieutenant Wilford Stiers of Company F, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry now at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee [Shiloh], that Stiers' merits and services were such as to entitle him to promotion, and that Stiers had acquitted himself nobly in the battle of Shiloh.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 207]

April 29, 1862
S.J. McGroarty, Ex-Colonel, 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the bearer, J. Corwin Smith, a resident of Hamilton, Ohio, was a recruiting officer in the 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Smith had reported upwards of twenty recruits for the regiment when he detached him from said service to be his secretary, with a promise of placement as a Lieutenant in one of the companies forming in the regiment, that Smith was appointed recruiting Lieutenant on October 7, 1861, and had ever since continued faithfully to perform all the duties assigned him, that Smith was honest, sober, and industrious, and a young man of good capacity and fair education, that it afforded him pleasure to recommend Smith to Tod's favorable consideration for promotion or continuation in his present position as Lieutenant in the army, and that if Smith was not to be continued, he should be promptly mustered out and paid.
2 pp. [Series 147-32: 214]

April 29, 1862
[George D. Ruggles], Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To the Governor of Ohio. Incomplete letter reporting that ten named officers of the volunteer forces from the State of Ohio had resigned to take effect on the dates set opposite their respective names.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 236]

April 29, 1862
John Russell, Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was a member of Company K, 64th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he was taken sick at Lebanon, Kentucky and laid there with typhoid fever for a period of six weeks, after which he was granted a furlough, that the furlough had run out, that he had not received his pay from the Government and did not have the money to go back, that he was not yet able for duty on account of his lungs being so weak, and that if Tod thought he better go back or get some place in the hospital, he wished a pass over the railroads.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 108]

April 29, 1862
W[illiam] T. Sherman, Brigadier General Commanding Division, Colonel, 13th U.S. Infantry, Headquarters, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee. To ? Special Orders No. 40; stating that Colonel J.J. Appler of the 53rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was hereby mustered out of the service of the United States pursuant to an order of Major General [Henry] Halleck endorsed on the proceedings of a military commission held at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee [Shiloh] pursuant to Orders No. 40 dated April 18, 1862.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 218]

April 29, 1862
L[orenzo] Thomas, Adjutant General, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To the Governor of Ohio. Extract from Special Orders No. 94; stating that 1st Lieutenant Joseph Richards of Company E, 60th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was, upon the recommendation of his commanding officer, discharged from the service to take effect on April 12, 1862.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 21]

April 29, 1862
A[lvin] C. Voris, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Post at Winchester, Virginia. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter stating that a vacancy had occurred in Company K, 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry by the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Seiter; recommending Commissary Sergeant John Cochran of the same company for the vacant place; stating that he thought Cochran was the best man in the company for the place, that Cochran had given such evidence of his courage under fire and was so thorough going that it was hoped Buckingham would give the service the benefit of his abilities in a better position than he now occupied, and that Cochran was also entitled to consideration for the efficient efforts made by him in getting up the company of which he was a member; requesting that the appointment be dated April 15, 1862; and stating that by letter dated March 29, 1862, directed to the Governor, he had recommended the promotion of 2nd Lieutenant Henry J. Crane for the Captaincy of Company B to replace Captain [Hyatt G.] Ford who was killed at the battle of Winchester, and the promotion of Orderly William Nixon for 2nd Lieutenant in case of the promotion of Crane, that these promotions would be in regular order of gradation in the same company, that he hoped this matter would receive early attention as the company had only one commissioned officer as now organized, Lieutenant Joseph Jacobs having resigned, and that not having had notice of the acceptance of Jacobs' resignation until that day and the company being at present detached, he was not prepared to say who should be recommended for Jacobs' place.
2 pp. [Series 147-32: 5]

April 29, 1862
Charles Whittlesey, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that on his way up the river, he saw one of the prisoners taken at Mill Springs, Kentucky, a Surgeon by the name of Morton, that Morton had been at Camp Chase and like most of those on parole, abused his liberty to defy the government, that he presumed General [Henry] Halleck had advised the Adjutant General of his resignation which took effect on April 19, that he presumed the promotions in the regiment would take place in regular order, and that their information seemed conclusive that the rebels were evacuating Corinth.
2 pp. [Series 147-32: 206]

April 30, 1862
L.C. Brown, Post Surgeon, Post Hospital, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To ? Letter stating that he had discharged Spencer Atkin and R. Wilson of Company B, and Isaac Meeker of Company E, 29th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and John R. Green of Company E, 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry from the Post Hospital, Camp Chase to rejoin their regiments.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 102]

April 30, [1862]
C.W. Gilmore, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that the Adjutant General's communication covering a pass for Joseph England of the 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was duly received; requesting that a pass be forwarded for George W. Thomas, Private, Company B, 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that Thomas had been sick, but was now able to rejoin the regiment and was anxious to do so, and that he was the brother of the Lieutenant Colonel of the 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and of course was applied to in such cases as these.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 197]

[April 30?, 1862]
R.D. Millar, Auditor, Hardin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham. Letter asking whether the enumeration of white male inhabitants was to be taken annually or every four years.
1 p. [Series 147-32: 106]