May 29, 1862
W[illiam] B. Woods, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp before Corinth, Mississippi. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that on May 27, 2nd Lieutenant Calvin G. Wells, Company H, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry died; and enclosing and approving the recommendation of Captain [Jerome N.] Rappleyea that 1st Sergeant John A. Wilkins of Company H be promoted to the 2nd Lieutenancy made vacant by the death of Wells.
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May 30, 1862
Calvin Carr, Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter requesting the promotion of Dolsen Vankirk, Orderly Sergeant of Company G, 65th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that Vankirk was a young man and brother-in-law of his, that Vankirk had many relatives in Richland County, Knox County, and Franklin County, that Vankirk left one of the best positions in Sandusky as bookkeeper, for the three months' service, that on his return, Vankirk left his situation a second time and went for the war, that from what he could learn, Vankirk had proven himself a brave and true soldier and eminently worthy, that he hoped Tod would promote Vankirk to 2nd Lieutenant which would be very gratifying to his many friends and widowed mother, and that if necessary, he could obtain for Vankirk the endorsement of 100 names of prominent men in Sandusky.
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May 30, 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. 80; stating that the resignation of 1st Lieutenant S.S. Wells, Adjutant, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on May 30, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
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May 30, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Camp on Corinth Road, Mississippi. To the Commanding Officer, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Special Field Orders No. 80; stating that the resignation of 1st Lieutenant S.S. Wells, Adjutant, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on May 30, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
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May 31, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Camp on Corinth Road, Mississippi. To the Commanding Officer, 39th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Special Field Orders No. 81; stating that the resignation of Surgeon O[liver] W. Nixon, 39th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on May 31, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
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May 31, 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. 81; stating that the resignation of Surgeon O[liver] W. Nixon, 39th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on May 31, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
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May 31, 1862
W[illiam] B. Woods, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp before Corinth. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that he was emphatically withdrawing the recommendation he made a day or two since for the promotion of 1st Sergeant John A. Wilkins, Company H, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to the 2nd Lieutenancy made vacant by the death of Calvin G. Wells, that facts had come to his knowledge in reference to Wilkins since that recommendation was made that satisfied him that he was not a proper subject for promotion, and that if an appointment was forwarded for Wilkins before his letter reached Hill, he hoped it would be at once recalled. Together with a letter dated May 31, 1862, from W[illiam] B. Woods, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp before Corinth, to Adjutant General Charles W. Hill; recommending that 1st Sergeant Andrew J. Battee, Company B, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry be promoted to the 2nd Lieutenancy made vacant by the death of Calvin G. Wells of Company H.
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June 1, 1862
M[atthias] H. Bartilson, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, et. al., Camp near Corinth, Mississippi. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by twenty-three commissioned officers of the 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that William J. Eckley, Quartermaster Sergeant in said regiment, was a young man of merit and in every respect qualified to act as 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant in said regiment, and that should a vacancy of the Adjutancy occur in the 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the appointment of Eckley would be esteemed as a favor.
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June 1, 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. 82; stating that the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant John D. Truitt, 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry was accepted to take effect on June 1, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
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June 2, 1862
J[esse] Hildebrand, Colonel, 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Corinth. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending that Tod appoint Jesse Hildebrand as 2nd Lieutenant in Company H to fill a vacancy occasioned by Levi J. Fouraker having been seriously wounded on April 8; and stating that Fouraker would not be able to return to his regiment, that Hildebrand aided in raising Company D and had been a candidate for 2nd Lieutenant, but was beaten by two votes, that Hildebrand was then made 2nd Sergeant of said company and served as such at the battle of Shiloh, behaving with perfect bravery through the whole battle on April 6, 7, and 8, that it was hoped Tod would appoint Hildebrand as 2nd Lieutenant from April 14, since which time he had been discharging the duties of 2nd Lieutenant in said company, and that not a post office stamp could be found in camp.
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June 2, 1862
J[esse] Hildebrand, Colonel, 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Corinth. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that on April 8, O[liphant] S. Thomas, 2nd Lieutenant in Company G, and Levi J. Fouraker, 2nd Lieutenant in Company H were seriously wounded and it was now understood that neither of them would be able to return to their commands during the war, and that Hanson Criswell, 2nd Lieutenant in Company E was either killed or taken prisoner on April 8, and had not been heard of since; recommending that Tod appoint Robert C. Berry as 1st Lieutenant in Company H to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of W.H. Mason; and stating that Thomas Ross was appointed to fill said vacancy, but he was compelled to transfer Ross to take command of Company G, that Robert C. Berry had been discharging the duties of 1st Lieutenant in Company H ever since April 17, that Berry had been transferred from the 15th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Berry was in the battle at Shiloh and showed good fighting courage.
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June 2, 1862
William Lawrence, Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Captain C.E. Fulton of Company A, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry desired a place as Major of that regiment, that Fulton wrote him that there would probably be a vacancy soon, that Fulton said he had the recommendation of the Lieutenant Colonel, Major, and all the Captains, and was senior Captain and so entitled by rank to the place desired, that from his knowledge of Fulton, he believed him to be the proper man to appoint, that Fulton was a man of talents, and that he would consider Fulton's appointment as one eminently fit to be made.
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June 2, 1862
W[illiam] B. Woods, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp before Corinth, Mississippi. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter enclosing the acceptance of the resignation of 1st Lieutenant S. Sylvester Wells, Adjutant of the 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; recommending that Sergeant Major Charles D. Miller be commissioned a 1st Lieutenant in order that he might be assigned to duty as Adjutant; and stating that Miller was the best and perhaps the only man in the regiment fully competent for the discharge of the duties of that position.
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June 3, 1862
James Ballard, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C[harles] W. Hill. Letter stating that he believed his son, George M. Ballard, to be a good soldier, that his son had, from the first organization of the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, performed the duties of 1st Sergeant, Company E to the satisfaction of his superior officers generally, that no change had yet been made in that company and none might be contemplated, that he found in a soldier's life, a day's time frequently made great changes, that Captain [Edwin S.] Platt told him that his son was better posted as to drill and duties generally than any other man in the company, that all who had been home from the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry gave his son credit for being perfectly straightforward, gaining the good will of his men, that they would be glad to see his son made Lieutenant, that it seemed to be the order that men should work up from the ranks and that is where his son started from, that from what he had learned, his son was brave as well as ambitious, that Captain [Edwin S.] Platt said his son took to the military as a duck took to water, that his son was fond of the military and the more excitement the better, that although his son was not injured at the battle of Winchester, there was good reason to believe he was at the post of duty putting in 34 out of 40 rounds and generally taking as good an aim as ever he did at a squirrel, that he was informed that Hill's recommendation would be successful in procuring a commission for his son, that it was a great sacrifice for him to let his son go into the service as he needed his help so much, that he would never have consented if he did not feel it his duty to contribute of what he had for the maintenance of their government and laws, and that now, with poor health and not having been able to go at his regular business on account of sickness, he felt the need of his son's services or of pay equivalents; and asking Hill to do what he thought the interest of the service would warrant so far as his son was concerned.
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June 4, 1862
T.E. Cunningham, Lima, Allen County, Ohio. To the Honorable G. V[olney] Dorsey. Letter written on behalf of his brother, John N. Cunningham, now Orderly Sergeant of Company H, 81st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; stating that the 81st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been in active service since October 1861, and was through both days fight at Shiloh, that they had yet to hear of a single "skeedaddler" among them, that the accompanying letter from Major [Charles N.] Lamison would bear witness that his brother did his duty, that his brother had been in the contest from the first and had well earned promotion, and that his brother's company desired it; and requesting that Dorsey use his undoubted influence at headquarters in his brother's behalf.
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June 4, 1862
Charles N. Lamison, Late Major, 81st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Lima, Allen County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he had just been requested to furnish a statement as to the fitness of John N. Cunningham (Orderly Sergeant of Company H, 81st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry) for promotion to the position of 2nd Lieutenant, a request with which he most cheerfully complied, that Cunningham had conducted himself with spirit and gallantry, performing every duty, that Cunningham's habits were good and his character as a man and soldier was unimpeachable, that Cunningham had always enjoyed the full confidence of his superior officers, and that Cunningham's appointment would render satisfaction to the company and regiment.
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June 4, 1862
George B. Senter, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Edward J. White, Sergeant, Company G, 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was a native of and enlisted in Cuyahoga County, and that he was satisfied from reliable information that White was a young man worthy of confidence and promotion.
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June 5, 1862
J[esse] Hildebrand, Colonel, 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp near Corinth. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that William West had resigned the office of Quartermaster and 1st Lieutenant in the 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that West's resignation took effect on June 1, 1862; asking Tod to appoint Edgar P. Pearce as 1st Lieutenant in the 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry so that he could appoint him Quartermaster at once; and stating that Pearce had been the Quartermaster Sergeant ever since the organization of said regiment, and that Pearce had discharged nearly the entire duty of the office of Quartermaster.
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June 5, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Camp Corinth. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Field Orders No. 87; stating that the resignation of 1st Lieutenant and Quartermaster W[illiam] West, 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on June 5, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
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June 5, 1862
Granville Moody, Colonel, 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commandant of Post, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To ? Letter stating that Jacob L. McVeigh and Peter Knowlton were ordered to proceed to Athens County, Ohio and recruit men for a company being formed in Camp Chase for the service of the United States, and to return on June 10, and that the Assistant Quartermaster would furnish transportation.
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June 6, 1862
James Adair. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was 1st Lieutenant of Company G, 62nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that said company was principally recruited by him under a Lieutenant's commission, that Milton Barnes, late Captain of said company, was elected and appointed as Captain with his consent and concurrence, that since said regiment had been in the service, Barnes had been with the company but little on account of ill health, that the company had been under his command nearly the whole time it had been in the service, and that he begged to be remembered by Tod when the vacancy was to be filled.
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June 6, 1862
John H. Finfrock, Captain, 64th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that he was at home on sick leave and, although unfit for duty in the field, he could do some service where there was less exposure; asking if the Ohio regiments now in the field would be filled up with new recruits and what would be the manner of recruiting; and stating that if he could be of any service in that department, he would like a place there until he was able to rejoin his regiment, and that he hoped to hear from Hill as soon as convenient.
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June 6, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Corinth, Mississippi. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Field Orders No. 90; stating that the resignations of Captain Joel Haines, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Lieutenant J[esse] J. Cook, 72nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1st Lieutenant O[liver] Eckles, 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Captain T[homas] W. Forshee, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, 2nd Lieutenant H[enry] C. Dewar, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Captain G[eorge] A. Miller, 48th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Captain Thomas Stone, 35th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were accepted to take effect on June 6, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
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June 7, 1862
Jesse Hildebrand, Colonel, 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Chawallow. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that William P. Richner had been discharging the duties of Lieutenant in the 77th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry for the last 25 days and expected a commission as 1st Lieutenant in said regiment, that Richner was duly elected as such about December 31, 1861, but the commission was refused on the grounds that he held the same position in the volunteer active service and had resigned, that the Honorable James R. Morris of Woodsfield called on the Secretary of War who promised to revoke the rules in Richner's case and authorized Tod to commission Richner, and that he had written Tod some 22 days ago, but had not received a response; asking whether Richner was to be commissioned or not; stating that in the present situation, he as well as Richner were under very unpleasant circumstances; and asking to be advised at once as to the result of Richner's case.
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June 7, 1862
Granville Moody, Colonel, 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commandant of Post, Headquarters, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the letter from General Bates, received from Tod's office, surprised him and perhaps more than it did Tod, that he knew nothing of the matter, that he did know that no orders had issued from his office to any squads of men to consolidate and that no squads of men were told by his office that they would not be allowed to await expected squads to join them to make up a company as stated in Bates' letter, that among all the volunteers that had arrived at Camp Chase since the issue of Tod's call, he did not know of a solitary instance wherein a single recruit or squad of recruits had been refused rations, that such stories may or may not have been told to the men in question or were inventions of their own to cloak their inglorious return home, that if they had such representations made to them, it must have been by irresponsible parties among the volunteers themselves who were interested and electioneering to complete their companies, that in any event, Tod could rest assured that no official authority passed from his office in support of such assertions, that on the contrary, he had studiously endeavored, with the hearty assistance of the force he had around him, to receive every company and squad coming in with his best welcome and had them assigned quarters and provided with blankets, utensils, and rations, that there were one or two cases of very small squads desiring to be attached where he felt that he had Tod's authority to support him in endeavoring to attach these men to squads already at Camp Chase, that this was done only with the mutual consent of the parties involved, and that Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill had Bates' letter and intended to reply to it.
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June 8, 1862
James Crandon, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter submitting the resignation of his position as 1st Lieutenant of Company C, 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that he had not yet received the commission for said position, and that his business was such that his attention was demanded by it and his private domestic affairs would not permit of his being absent from home. Bears a note from Halbert B. Case, Captain, Company C, 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; certifying that Crandon's circumstances were such as to demand his attention at home; and stating that he believed justice to Crandon and his family dictated his resignation.
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June 8, 1862
A[lmon] F. Rockwell, Aide-de-Camp and Acting Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Army of the Ohio, Camp. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Special Orders No. 72; stating that the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant Homer J. Ball, Company C, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect from June 8, 1862. By command of Major General [Don Carlos] Buell.
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June 8, 1862
A[lvin] C. Voris, Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, In the Field near Columbia Bridge, [Virginia]. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that since Hill's communication of May 6 was received, the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been constantly on the move, that the regiment marched from Woodstock to Mt. Jackson, thence to Strasburg, Front Royal, Warrenton Junction, and Fredericksburg, thence back to Warrenton Junction, Manassas Junction, Front Royal, Luray, and Columbia Bridge, and now was resting on the road between Columbia Bridge and Luray, that Hill would thus perceive that they had done much hard labor during the last month, that they had been cut off from general communication for much of the time, that they had mail only twice in three weeks, that he had only seen two newspapers of a later date than May 24, that this afforded a fair excuse for not answering Hill's communication at an earlier day, that the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was deserving of great credit for the manner it had borne the fatigues of the march above indicated, that the weather had been extremely unfavorable much of the time, and that added to this, there had been evident neglect in the supply departments of the army; enclosing a copy of a report dated June 3, 1862, which would show some of the disadvantages under which they had been struggling, and a list of casualties of the battle at Winchester which would answer Hill's request relating to Lieutenant Colton as well as all others who were unfortunate in that fight; stating that it might not be uninteresting to Hill to know the strength of the regiment so he was sending a copy of the consolidated report, that he was in hope that some plan might be adopted to fill the regiment, that Hill must be aware that his position in the regiment, with an unscrupulous, malicious, mendacious, and irresponsible foreign adventurer for Colonel still having influence, was anything but pleasant, that Major [John R.] Bond had been absent from the regiment since May 15 on sick leave, and that they feared Bond was seriously ill or he certainly would be with them; and asking if he might authorize fit persons who were at home on furlough to recruit for the regiment.
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June 9, 1862
Halbert B. Case, Captain, Company C, 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that at Hill's suggestion as to whether his men would be satisfied with the appointment of John W. Irwin to fill the vacancy arising by the resignation of James Crandon, 1st Lieutenant, Company C, 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he called a meeting of all his officers to receive their expression, that Crandon suggested Irwin as his successor and it received the unanimous and enthusiastic approbation of his officers, and that Irwin was the choice of the entire company.
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June 9, 1862
Jacob Hyer, Lieutenant Colonel, 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Joseph Hill had not yet received his appointment as Chaplain of the 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that Hill was with the regiment laboring and was not yet mustered in; requesting that Tod forward Hill's appointment, dated back, so he could receive pay for the time on duty; recommending the appointment of James Gibson of Greenfield as Captain of a company; and stating that Gibson was in every way suitable for said position.
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