June 18, 1862
Uriah Gregory, Captain, [Company K, 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry], Headquarters, Camp Lawrence, Cumberland. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that he had learned that Charles O. Fitch, mustered in at Camp Chase and left in hospital, was discharged and sent home, that if this was so, he wished to be notified, that if consistent with regulations, he wanted Albert Frazier, who was enrolled at Camp Chase in Company K and sworn in but not put on the muster roll, to take Fitch's place, and that Frazier came with them and was a strong, hardy young man. Bears the approval of William Lawrence, Colonel, 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
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June 18, 1862
Henry B. Tibbitts, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Private, Company E, 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that having seen Tod's notice in the Cleveland Herald, he was taking the opportunity to report himself ready for duty, that he belonged to Company E of the 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he was taken sick at Camp Chase with smallpox and had just recovered, and that he had received an unlimited furlough from his Captain, but as he was able to do duty, he felt obligated to report.
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June 18, 1862
Richard Waite, Captain, Company A, et. al., 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Lawrence, near Cumberland, Maryland. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by eight Captains of the 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that understanding that Charles D. Rhodes, Quartermaster, 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had tendered his resignation, they would request, if said resignation was accepted, that Frank Braisted of Company A be appointed as Rhodes' successor.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 168]

June 19, 1862
L.C. Brown, Post Surgeon, Post Hospital, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To General G[eorge] B. Wright, Columbus. Letter stating that W.A. Sutherland, Company C, 86th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (three months' service) was discharged from the Post Hospital to rejoin his regiment.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 170]

June 19, 1862
J[ames] W. Carlin, Captain, Company A, 71st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Ft. Donelson, Tennessee. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that a vacancy had existed in his company since April 4, occasioned by the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant E[zekiel] K. Hitchens, that the duties of 2nd Lieutenant had devolved upon 1st Sergeant John M. Simmons since that time, that as Simmons had been faithful, he was requesting his promotion to the office of 2nd Lieutenant, and that he believed Simmons had been recommended by Colonel R[odney] Mason.
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June 19, 1862
C[olumbus] Delano, Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Asa Trimble was an applicant for the post of Quartermaster of the 65th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Trimble had been acting heretofore as Assistant Quartermaster, that Trimble was a young man of superior business capacity and excellent character, that he hoped Tod could promote Trimble, and that he knew Trimble and his family and they were all highly respectable and loyal.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 45]

June 19, 1862
C.W. Potwin, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter stating that three companies in the 78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry allotted a portion of their pay to him for distribution, that the U.S. Paymaster informed the men in camp, when paying them their balances, that the allotment money would probably reach Potwin for distribution at about the same time, that it was now nearly three weeks since the Paymaster was in camp, that he had numerous applications, which were very annoying, for allotment money and he had as yet received none, and that Hill would do him a favor by advising whether this money would come directly from Washington or from what source and whether he could aid in promptly securing it.
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June 20, 1862
S.S. Bloom, John Mack, Thomas Mickey, and W.R. Bricker, Military Committee of Richland County, Shelby, Richland County, Ohio. To William Lawrence, Colonel, 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Letter stating that having understood that a vacancy had occurred in the 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the office of Quartermaster, they recommended Samuel H. Anderson of Company H as a man worthy and well qualified to perform all the duties pertaining to said office, that Anderson could give any security required and had sacrificed a great deal to enter the service, and that Anderson's appointment would be greeted with delight by all who knew him.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 173]

June 20, 1862
B[arnabus] Burns, Colonel, 86th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Clarksburgh, Virginia. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that at Benwood, he was met with an order from General [Benjamin F.] Kelley to proceed with his command to Clarksburgh and await further orders, that he arrived at Clarksburgh about 8 P.M. the previous evening in good order, and that the tents were now pitched and the men were in camp.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 185]

June 20, 1862
Alvin Clark, [Captain, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry], Front Royal, Virginia. To the Honorable Benjamin Stanton. Letter asking Stanton to use his influence with the Governor of Ohio to have Sylvanus Wilkins appointed 1st Lieutenant of Company D, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Robert Crockett; and stating that Wilkins had received a large majority of the votes of said company, that he supposed ere this that others had been recommended for the office, but they were men who the company had tried, and that the company would not be satisfied if under these men and they did not receive a single vote in the company, being of intemperate habits.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 47]

June 20, 1862
Charles H. Kibler, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. To [Quartermaster] General George B. Wright, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. Letter requesting that Wright hand to Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill the enclosed recommendation for the promotion of [Reason C.] Strong and [William H.] Darlinton; and stating that he would be obliged if Wright could join with them in the recommendation by speaking a good word for these young gentlemen, and that he could have gotten 100 names to the paper enclosed if he had thought it worthwhile.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 119]

June 20, 1862
Charles H. Kibler, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C[harles] W. Hill. Letter stating that accompanying his letter was a request on behalf of such members of the Military Committee for Licking County as were at home for the promotion of Lieutenant Reason C. Strong to the Captaincy and 1st Sergeant William H. Darlinton to the 2nd Lieutenancy of Company D, 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that Hill might remember their conversation concerning these promotions about two weeks ago, and that as the regiment had been moving on its way to Memphis, it was possible that his letter to the Colonel might not reach him immediately and the desired recommendations, which he was confident would be forwarded, might be delayed.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 120]

June 20, 1862
James Pickands, Captain, Company E, 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cumberland, Maryland. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that his name was misspelled in the Adjutant General's report and his commission, and that he wished the mistakes corrected.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 180]

June 20, 1862
Royal Taylor, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he had just been informed by Tod's secretary that Charles D. Rhodes had resigned the office of Quartermaster of the 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry on account of the difficulties of his position and his ill health, that this would place Daniel R. Taylor back in the ranks contrary to the arrangement made when he enlisted, that if Daniel R. Taylor was compelled to stand guard and do picket duty, he would fail to be of any service whatever, that as Tod would recollect, Daniel R. Taylor was compelled to abandon the Aurora Station on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad because he was too frail to endure the labor, that Daniel R. Taylor was a good penman and a ready accountant, and that if Tod could provide that Daniel R. Taylor should be the Assistant Quartermaster when the position of Quartermaster was filled, it would render him a favor and do substantial service to said department. Bears the endorsement of Junius Dana.
2 pp. [Series 147-37: 169]

June 20, 1862
Sylvanus Tenney, et. al., Company D, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Front Royal, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by twenty-five members of Company D, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and requesting that Tod appoint Sergeant Sylvanus Wilkins as 1st Lieutenant of said company.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 51]

June 20, 1862
M. Welker, Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C[harles] W. Hill. Letter stating that he was requested by 2nd Lieutenant Jasper P. Brady, late of Company F, 65th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry who resigned his office on March 30, 1862, to ask Hill to make application for removal of his disability to enter service again, that Brady was compelled to resign on account of ill health growing out of exposure in Kentucky and Tennessee, that Brady was now in very good health and desirous of again going into service, and that Brady made a good officer, had served a campaign in the Mexican War, and would again do good service.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 39]

June 21, 1862
Joseph Perkins, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending Henry J. Hoyt for appointment to the position of Quartermaster of the 84th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
3 pp. [Series 147-37: 167]

June 22, 1862
A.A. Wood, 1st Lieutenant, Company I, et. al., 85th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by eight commissioned officers of the 85th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; stating that they were about to be transferred to the 87th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; requesting that Tod appoint Captain Moses R. Brailey as Lieutenant Colonel of the 87th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that from their acquaintance with Brailey, they had the utmost confidence in his military ability and his character as a gentleman, and that if the position of Lieutenant Colonel of the 87th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was not vacant, they desired to see Brailey made Major.
2 pp. [Series 147-37: 186]

June 23, 1862
H[uron] E. Humphrey, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was a member of Company G, 85th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was fifty-six years of age, had been a Captain, a Major, a Colonel, and a Brigade inspector in the 21st Division, Ohio Militia, was a member of the Ohio Bar, and was always an old Whig in politics, that after the death of the Whig Party, he never claimed to belong to any political party until the late democratic movement in Ohio that united all parties in calling Tod to the position of Governor, and that he wished for a more active post in support of their glorious flag.
2 pp. [Series 147-37: 182]

June 23, 1862
John S. Nimmons, 1st Sergeant, Company D, et. al., 88th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter signed by thirty-seven members of Company D, 88th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that they wished to be transferred to Henry H. Fickel's company for the 87th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and that if said Henry H. Fickel was not their Captain, their request was to be considered null and void. Bears a note from Henry H. Fickel certifying that the letter was right and correct; and stating that all the noncommissioned must retain their positions in the company to which they were to be transferred or the request was to be considered null and void.
2 pp. [Series 147-37: 190]

June 23, 1862
C[lark] H. Robinson, Lieutenant and Quartermaster, 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that as a member of the 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he was well acquainted with Isaac Ulman, former Captain of Company A of said regiment, that Ulman was compelled to resign said position due to ill health, that Ulman desired to re-occupy said position since his health was restored, that he most cheerfully bore testimony to the high regard in which Ulman was held by said company, that the company's present efficiency in drill was due more to Captain Ulman's untiring industry than to any other officer of the command, that Ulman was an officer highly esteemed by his brother officers as a gentleman and soldier, and that he hoped it might meet the pleasure of Tod to re-appoint Ulman to the position which he sought.
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June 24, 1862
D. Barnhisel, et. al., Company A, 87th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by eighty-four members of Company A, 87th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that they were about to be deprived of a position in said regiment which they honorably and properly acquired, that such loss of their position not only caused them great inconvenience, but was an unjust insult to their honor, that they were displaced to give position to a company from the 85th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry which first enlisted as State Guards and which would only join the 87th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry on condition that they could be permitted to occupy the first position of honor in said regiment, and that in view of these facts, they respectfully and most earnestly protested against such change and earnestly begged Tod to interfere in their behalf.
2 pp. [Series 147-37: 188]

June 24, 1862
O[liver] D. Greene, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, District of the Ohio, Nashville, Tennessee. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Extract from Special Orders No. 86; stating that the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant B[arnard] J. Connaugton, Company I, 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted, and that Connaugton was accordingly honorably discharged from the service of the United States from June 24, 1862. By command of Major General [Don Carlos] Buell.
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June 24, 1862
E. Kleber, Captain, Company F, 85th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter stating that the bearer, J.L. Haskins of Company F, 85th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, knew of some recruits he could get; and asking Hill to furnish Haskins with transportation. Bears a note stating that any recruits that might be enlisted by authorized recruiting officers would be transported.
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June 25, 1862
William Edwards, Captain, Company A, 62nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, 2nd Brigade, Shields' Division, Army of the Potomac, Camped near Manassas Junction. To Governor David Tod. Letter requesting that Tod commission 2nd Lieutenant Jackson Tharp as a 1st Lieutenant and 1st Sergeant Thomas Showers as a 2nd Lieutenant; and stating that Tharp and Showers were members of Company A, 62nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that said promotions were rendered necessary by the acceptance of the resignation of 1st Lieutenant Henry Dilts of the aforesaid company and regiment on June 13, 1862, and that his having to act as Major during the long absence of Delafield Dubois together with the sickness of Dilts and his ultimate resignation had left his company with but one commissioned officer for most of the time during the past three months, hence the necessity of prompt action.
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June 27, 1862
James C. Henley, Captain, Company K, et. al., 88th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter signed by eighty-four officers and Privates of Company K, 88th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that they wished it understood that they desired to remain under the supervision of the present field officers. Together with a note dated June 28, 1862, from the same officers and Privates, to Governor David Tod; stating that they wished it understood that they desired to remain under the supervision of the present regimental officers.
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June 27, 1862
B[enjamin] Stanton, Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter enclosing a letter from Captain [Alvin] Clark of the 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry relative to promotion in his company growing out of the resignation of Lieutenant [Robert] Crockett; and stating that he was not personally acquainted with [Sylvanus] Wilkins who was recommended for promotion or with Lieutenant [John O.] Dye or Sergeant [Theodore] Stansbury who by seniority would be entitled to the place, that he had been well acquainted with Clark for more than 25 years, that Clark was about 50 years old and was in every respect one of the very best men in Logan County, that Clark was discreet, impartial, and upright, that he was sure that Clark had no objects in view in recommending the appointment of Wilkins except the good of the service, that he had conversed with Crockett on the subject, that Crockett concurred entirely with Clark, and said that Wilkins was the best man in the company and that Dye and Stansbury were disqualified by intemperate habits, and that for himself, he should have no hesitation in acting on the recommendation of Clark.
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June 27, 1862
B[enjamin] Stanton, Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C[harles] W. Hill. Letter stating that he was requested by the men of Captain [Alvin] Clark's company, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to look after the promotion in the company that would be necessary in consequence of the resignation of 1st Lieutenant [Robert] Crocket, and that Hill would oblige him by delaying any appointments for a few days.
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June 28, 1862
J.P. Robison, Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he had known E[dward] J. White, Sergeant, Company G, 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry since childhood, and that he believed White to be worthy and competent to receive promotion to a Lieutenancy.
1 p. [Series 147-37: 64]

June 28, 1862
Orland Smith, Colonel, 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Middletown, Virginia. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that by the resignation and discharge of Lieutenant Colonel J[acob] Hyer, a vacancy existed in the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that as it was very desirable that the vacancy should be filled at the earliest possible moment, he begged leave to indicate his preference for Major Richard Long for succession to the position and, in the event of Long's promotion, for Captain E[dward] H. Allen of Company C for the Majority, that in making this expression of his preference, he was aware that he asked in the latter case for a departure from the established rules of succession, that he was advised that a part of the Captains and subalterns of the regiment had pointed to Captain Samuel H. Hurst of Company A as their choice for the Lieutenant Colonelcy, that in giving his reasons for the selection indicated above, he preferred to limit himself to a statement of the qualities possessed by Long and Allen rather than dwell upon disparaging remarks in respect to their competitors, that Long, though a young man, possessed good health which had enabled him thus far to accompany the regiment in all its arduous marches and labors, that Long was a good drill officer, brave and energetic, and had never faltered in the performance of any duty assigned, that he knew no reason not based upon personal prejudice or private ambition why Long should not succeed directly to the position formerly occupied by Hyer, that in proposing Allen for the Majority, he was governed by an appreciation of his habits of studious industry, close application to any business in hand, systematic discipline, and a general military knowledge unequalled in the regiment, that Allen had always been on duty since the regiment entered the field, never having been absent from his post for a moment under any pretence, that in thus expressing his choice, he simply exercised a right which he conscientiously believed to be his in common with the other officers of the regiment, and that if, from the expression which he understood had been made by his subordinates, the Governor should judge that the good of the service would be promoted by the natural military succession, while such a conclusion would be contrary to his wishes, he would nevertheless aim, as he always had, to promote that harmony and concert of action which could alone achieve success in their efforts to sustain the Government.
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