May 16, 1862
C.P. Buckingham, Brigadier General and Assistant Adjutant General, War Department, Washington City, D.C. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Tod's letter was in the hands of the Adjutant General with orders to authorize the Governor to raise a company to be stationed at Camp Dennison, that he supposed Tod would receive the order from the Adjutant General very soon, and that at any rate, the thing had been authorized and he thought Tod would be safe in going ahead.
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May 16, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Camp on Corinth Road, Mississippi. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Field Orders No. 61; stating that 1st Lieutenant David R. Hume, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being absent from the regiment without authority, was hereby mustered out of the service of the United States. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
1 p. [Series 147-34: 33]

May 16, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Camp on Corinth Road, Mississippi. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Field Orders No. 61; stating that the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant W[illiam] D. Neal, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on May 16, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
1 p. [Series 147-34: 34]

May 16, 1862
J[ohn] C. Lee, Colonel, 55th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Franklin, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Lieutenant R[obert] C. Pennington, 55th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been acting Quartermaster of the regiment from the time of its organization until within the last month, during which time he had been at home recruiting his health, that during the whole term of Pennington's official career, he had been most industrious and made himself master of his position, that fearing as he did that Pennington's health might not be equal to a continuance of duty in the field and knowing him to be thoroughly qualified for it, he would earnestly commend him to the appointment of a Captaincy and assignment to duty as Quartermaster in Columbus, Ohio, that R[aymond] Burr who now held a Lieutenancy in the regiment was on that duty and had advised him that if ordered to duty in the field, he would at once respond, that he hoped Tod might find it proper to put Pennington upon duty at the post in Columbus, and that Pennington was in every way qualified for the post, having been a man of good business qualification and of enlarged experience. Bears the endorsement of Robert C. Schenck, Brigadier General Commanding, Headquarters, Camp Franklin, Virginia.
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May 16, 1862
W[illiam] R. Lloyd, Colonel, 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Headquarters, Wheeling Island. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter informing Hill that an order had been received stating that 2nd Lieutenant J[osiah] D. Freer, 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry had tendered the resignation of his commission, that the same was accepted, and that Freer was honorably discharged from the service.
1 p. [Series 147-34: 32]

May 16, 1862
James Monroe, Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was writing a note to accompany certain papers recommending R[ichard] H. Pardee, Orderly Sergeant, Company I, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry for promotion, that he cordially endorsed said papers, that Pardee had done his duty most worthily thus far, with intelligence, industry, and pluck, that he believed Pardee deserved promotion, and that if Pardee should be promoted, the country would never be ashamed of him.
1 p. [Series 147-34: 93]

May 16, 1862
George D. Ruggles, Assistant Adjutant General, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter reporting the names of ten officers of the volunteer forces from the State of Ohio who had resigned to take effect on the dates set opposite their respective names.
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May 16, 1862
David S. Sampsel, Captain, James Cantwell, Colonel, J[ames] S. Robinson, Lieutenant Colonel, D[avid] Thomson, Major, and F[rancis] S. Jacobs, Adjutant, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Franklin, Franklin, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending the appointment of William W. Brown, 2nd Lieutenant, Company K, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to the position of 1st Lieutenant made vacant by the appointment of Francis S. Jacobs to Adjutant of said regiment.
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May 16, 1862
D[avid] S. Sampsel, Captain, James Cantwell, Colonel, James S. Robinson, Lieutenant Colonel, D[avid] Thomson, Major, and F[rancis] S. Jacobs, Adjutant, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Franklin, Franklin, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending the appointment of Sergeant John A. McClusky as 2nd Lieutenant of Company K, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in case of the promotion of William W. Brown to 1st Lieutenant; and stating that McClusky was a suitable and competent person for the position.
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May 16, 1862
L[orenzo] Thomas, Adjutant General, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To the Governor of Ohio. Extract from Special Orders No. 109; stating that Major R[ichard] B. Treat of the 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, having tendered his resignation, was discharged from the service to take effect on May 16, 1862. By order of the Secretary of War.
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May 17, 1862
James Cantwell, Colonel, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Franklin, Virginia. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter recommending the appointment of 2nd Lieutenant John P. Drennan of Company F to be 1st Lieutenant; and stating that he had appointed Drennan as Quartermaster of the regiment to fill the vacancy occasioned by the promotion of 1st Lieutenant [William E.] Scofield to be a Captain, the appointment to date from May 15 which corresponded with the date of the resignation of 1st Lieutenant A[lexander] S. Ramsey.
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May 17, 1862
A.F. Rockwell, Aide-de-Camp and Acting Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Army of the Ohio, In Camp. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Special Orders No. 53; stating that the resignation of Surgeon T[homas] M. Cleveland, 41st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on May 17, 1862. By command of Major General [Don Carlos] Buell.
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May 18, 1862
James Cantwell, Colonel, James S. Robinson, Lieutenant Colonel, D[avid] Thomson, Major, and H[enry] B. Fry, Chaplain, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp near Franklin, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that by the resignation of 1st Lieutenant W.D. Porterfield and the promotion of Lieutenant P. Faught of Company G, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, said company was now deprived of a 2nd Lieutenant; and recommending Dr. P.W. Lee, 1st Sergeant in said company, to Tod's favorable consideration as a suitable person for promotion to fill the vacancy.
1 p. [Series 147-34: 93]

May 18, 1862
M[anning] F. Force, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp near Purdy Bridge. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that there was confusion in the dates of appointment of the officers of the 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that these dates did not agree with the date of actual appointment, dates of muster, dates of filing muster rolls, dates of completion of company, or any other one rule, that he wrote to Adjutant General C.P. Buckingham before they left Ohio to fix, in some way, seniority in the regiment, that perhaps from the difficulty of the task, he never received an answer, that while the dates of appointment were so arbitrary, promotions might not be held rigidly to them, that there was a strong feeling in favor of promoting officers in their own companies, that in the two flanking companies, it was very desirable they should be so, that those two companies were older by a marked interval than the rest of the regiment and had a decided character of their own, that their officers and noncommissioned officers were able and had seen service, and that in the confusion of rank in the regiment, he strongly urged that in the flanking companies, promotion be made from the company; recommending various promotions; and stating that he had the efficiency of the battalion much at heart, that he had watched it from the first germ, that from the date of his first reporting for service to that hour, he had not been absent four days in all and had never been excused from duty one day, and that it was zeal for the interest of the battalion which had led him to write.
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May 18, 1862
George H. Guild, 1st Lieutenant, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp near Corinth. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter informing Hill of the receipt of his appointment as 1st Lieutenant in the 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that he was absent from home at the time the notice arrived and it did not reach him until a few days since, whereupon he immediately joined his regiment, that he hoped the delay in receiving the notice had not materially changed his acceptance of the appointment, that he was very thankful that he was near Corinth in time to play a part in the next great struggle for the preservation of the glorious Union and cause which they were all struggling so hard to maintain, and that he hoped to give a good account of himself.
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May 18, 1862
F[rederick] S. Wallace, late 2nd Lieutenant, Company A, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service), Captain, 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter certifying that John Davis was a member of the company of which he was 2nd Lieutenant in the three months' service, that Davis was transferred with him to a corps of engineers and pioneers, and that Davis was with him at the battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, when he acquitted himself with the greatest bravery and in every manner satisfactory; and stating that Davis was very proficient in all that pertained to the duties of an officer or soldier, that he thought Davis would make a good officer, and that while under his command, Davis was always prompt, subordinate, and willing to perform his duty.
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May 19, 1862
C.P. Buckingham, Brigadier General, War Department, Washington City, D.C. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that when Governor [William] Dennison was there, he obtained for Colonel Milliken the privilege of re-examination, that another officer discharged by the same board had appealed to the President and he had upset the whole proceedings of that board and pronounced them illegal and void, and that all the officers were reinstated.
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May 19, 1862
S.J. McGroarty, Lieutenant Colonel, 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To the Honorable William Dennison, Ex-Governor of Ohio. Letter requesting Dennison's aid in behalf of one who was qualified for the position of Captain; and stating that W[illiam] H. Bucke was an applicant and he knew of no person who so well deserved the position, that Bucke had recruited 51 men, but military necessity deprived him of his position, that when the President first called for volunteers, Bucke aided him, that Bucke represented his situation to Dennison and procured for him a daily contribution of provisions for three hundred men for one week before the 10th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) was accepted by Dennison as Governor, that Bucke had credit for 17 men in an Indiana regiment, but gave up the position to go with him when he received his appointment from Dennison as Colonel, and that he found Bucke to be an officer and a gentleman. Together with a letter dated May 19, 1862, from William H. Bucke, 1st Lieutenant, 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, to the Honorable William Dennison; stating that Dennison would confer a great favor by assisting him in obtaining a Captain's commission in one of the companies about to be raised in Ohio, that he secured a 1st Lieutenancy in the 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry by recruiting his complement of men, but lost it in the consolidation, that he could give good reference, and that he pledged his honor to do his best in filling well any position to which he was appointed. Bears a pencilled note dated May 21, [1862], from Dennison; stating that his impressions of Bucke were favorable, and that he thought Bucke would make a good officer.
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May 19, 1862
George L. Melick, Camp Shiloh, Pittsburg, Tennessee. To Adjutant General C[harles] W. Hill. Letter stating that there was a vacant Captaincy in the 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and he begged leave to call Hill's attention to General Order No. 3, issued from the Adjutant General's office, which regulated promotions, and that Hill would see from the record of commissions that he was senior 1st Lieutenant in the regiment.
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May 20, 1862
H[enry] B. Banning, Captain, Company B, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that his promotion had been requested by General George W. Morgan who left recommendations with Tod, that Morgan said he should call upon Tod if at any time he was in Ohio, that he had a few days leave to visit a sick sister, that on his return, he called and found Tod absent at Cincinnati, that he learned at the Adjutant General's office that Tod was about to organize some new regiments, that he had been in the service over a year as Captain, that his Colonel (John S. Mason), his Lieutenant Colonel and Major, the field officers of the 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry under whom he served in the early part of the war, and General Morgan had given him strong recommendations, all of which were on file in the Adjutant General's office, that upon referring to these recommendations, Tod should see proper to give him a promotion in one of the new regiments, and that his every effort would be to show himself equal to the recommendations of his friends and not to disappoint Tod's expectations.
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May 20, 1862
Charles S. Cotter, Captain, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Camp near Corinth, Mississippi. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that there was a vacancy of a 2nd Lieutenant in Company A, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery; and recommending Roland G. Day, a member of said company, as a competent person to fill the vacancy. Bears a note dated May 30, 1862, from Samuel D. Harris, Jr. and Alphonso Hart, Military Committee of Portage County, endorsing the recommendation.
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May 20, 1862
M[anning] F. Force, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp near Purdy Bridge. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter acknowledging the receipt of Hill's letter of May 8, directing him to give the names of persons in the same companies with Lieutenant Jacobs, Lieutenant Neal, and Lieutenant Bostwick who were fit to fill the vacancies made by the promotion of these Lieutenants; and stating that the 1st Sergeants of these companies were unquestionably the most suitable and were well worthy of promotion, and that in case of the acceptance of the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant Irwin of Company C, he recommended the promotion of 1st Sergeant Presley McCafferty who for some time had been in command of the company.
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May 20, 1862
Denis Hoban, Lieutenant, formerly of the 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that he understood there had been an order issued by the War Department calling for fourteen companies of infantry from Ohio, that if this was the case, he wanted the opportunity of going into the field, that he had recruited 55 men for the 50th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and reported them in camp, that he had one hundred and fifteen men in his company and was deprived of his command in the consolidation, that he had been in the service for the last seven years and hoped the Adjutant General would do him justice, that he could recruit another company if there was any truth in the report, that he was determined to go into the field once more if possible, that he had worked hard for the last six months and succeeded in getting a good company, and that the Adjutant General was aware of the nature of his case and how he came to lose his command.
2 pp. [Series 147-34: 66]

May 20, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Camp Corinth Road. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Field Orders No. 68; stating that the resignation of 1st Lieutenant John H. Miller, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery was accepted to take effect on May 20, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
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May 20, 1862
C.J. Skiles, Galion, Crawford County, Ohio. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter requesting that her husband be transferred to the Quartermaster's Department.
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May 21, 1862
William L. De Beck, Captain, Battery K, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Headquarters, Camp Franklin, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that on March 27, Junior 1st Lieutenant John D. Holden sent in his official resignation leaving only three Lieutenants in the battery, that his 2nd Lieutenants were Lewis Heckman and Henry S. Camp, that if in accordance with Tod's views, he would like Heckman and Camp to be promoted, the former to Junior 1st Lieutenant and the latter to Senior 2nd Lieutenant, that this would leave the place of Junior 2nd Lieutenant vacant, that Hiram B. Iams had been the Orderly Sergeant of the company for nearly a year and at all times had proven efficient and unusually active, that the good discipline of the battery was due to Iams and his individual exertions, that he would like to see Iams promoted to the vacant position, that Iams had been acting as such since Lieutenant Holden left, that they had just returned from the hard fought field of McDowell and he was proud to say that every son of Ohio stood manfully to his post, that not one man flinched though opposed by overwhelming numbers, and that their men fought for six long hours, only withdrawing when all the ammunition was spent and the rebels were as willing to quit as themselves.
2 pp. [Series 147-34: 191]

May 21, 1862
John P. Hatch, Brigadier General, Commanding Cavalry, Headquarters, Department of the Shenandoah, near Strasburg, Virginia. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter enclosing official copies of Special Orders Nos. 26 and 35, Headquarters, Department of the Shenandoah.
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May 21, 1862
A.T. Ready, New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Jacob Fribley of the 30th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an applicant for a Lieutenancy in his regiment, that he knew Fribley personally and did not hesitate to say that he was an excellent young man and would make an efficient officer, that Fribley's only brother entered the service and did good service, but was killed the previous winter in some of the Virginia battles, that Fribley's parents were very solicitous about him and particularly so since the death of their other son, and that if it was at all consistent with Tod's views of propriety, he hoped Fribley might be appointed.
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May 21, 1862
[A.T. Ready], New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending Captain Benjamin F. Potts of the 32nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a suitable person for promotion in his regiment; and stating that Potts entered the service early, was a young lawyer of fine ability and good moral character, and would make an excellent Major or Lieutenant Colonel either in the 32nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry or any other Ohio regiment where there might be a vacancy, and that Potts' appointment would be gratifying to his numerous friends in Carroll County and adjoining counties.
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May 22, 1862
Charles Colahan, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter asking Tod to accept his name as an applicant for position in the Quartermaster's Department; and stating that if full there, a commission as a Lieutenant or Captain in the new levy would be accepted and kept bright in the field or camp.
1 p. [Series 147-34: 67]