June 20, 1862
E.E. Retter, Fairfield, Greene County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that having recruited fifty-three men for three months and finding he could not fill up in the time specified, he disbanded them and sent nine of them to Columbus via Xenia, and that there were still some additional young men locally who wanted to go; asking if Tod had a place for them; and stating that if Tod had a recruiting agency for him or a commission, he would accept the same, and that he served seven months in western Virginia, but resigned on account of inactivity there.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 210]

June 20, 1862
L[orenzo] Thomas, Adjutant General, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To the Governor of Ohio. Extract from Special Orders No. 140; stating that Captain Oscar Hultman, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had tendered his resignation, and that he was honorably discharged from the service to take effect on June 20, 1862. By order of the Secretary of War.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 21]

June 20, 1862
Bennett Whiteley, Springfield, Clark County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C[harles] W. Hill. Letter requesting the age, date, rank, and place of enlistment of Daniel Bradley in Company C, 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, the names of the Colonels of the 12th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the names of the Captains of the company organized by Captain [John W.] Lowe, afterwards Colonel Lowe, and the rank, age, date, and place of enlistment, and date and place of death of Robert Batchelor of said company; asking what Hill's charge was for the trouble; and stating that he would send the money.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 87]

June 21, 1862
James Barnett, Colonel, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Headquarters, In Camp near Florence, Alabama. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the Quartermaster of the regiment had been mustered out of the service by order of General [Henry] Halleck; asking that Charles H. Randall, who was Commissary Sergeant of the regiment, be promoted to a 1st Lieutenancy in Company F for the purpose of being detailed as a Quartermaster; and stating that he could speak of the qualifications of Randall in the highest terms, and that all who knew Randall would join in the statement that a better selection could not be made for the position.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 48]

June 21, 1862
Edward H. Chase, 1st Sergeant, Company B, 7th Illinois Volunteers, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter stating that as his furlough expired next week and he was about able for duty, he wished to be furnished with army transportation passes to Cairo via Chicago.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 206]

June 21, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Corinth, Mississippi. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Field Orders No. 118; stating that the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant Mathew Brown, 27th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on June 21, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 12]

June 21, 1862
George A. Orris, Johnson's Island. To Dear Sir. Letter stating that he sent a letter to Governor David Tod requesting the appointment of 2nd Lieutenant in some company, and that he had not heard anything yet; and requesting the addressee to look into the matter for him.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 220]

June 21, 1862
S.S. Osborn, Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter stating that Captain Eleazer Burridge, Company F, 29th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had just been brought home from Washington by his brother, that Burridge had a slight flesh wound in the arm and was struck on the side of the head by a piece of shell, that the effect of the shell wound had been to render Burridge delirious a portion of the time and was now affecting his limbs and relieving his head, that Burridge's commission as Captain arrived at Painesville after he left to join his company, that the commission was sent after Burridge, but failed to overtake him before the fight at Port Republic in which he received his wound and was incapacitated from writing, that Burridge was placed in command of his company and had since acted as Captain, that Burridge desired him to say that he accepted the position, and that Burridge was a very brave and meritorious officer and hoped and desired to be able to join his command in time to aid in the capture of Richmond; and requesting that Hill assure Burridge by letter that his acceptance was satisfactory.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 219]

June 21, 1862
O.C. Pratt, Lieutenant, Ashtabula, Ashtabula County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he had reported thirty men to the Adjutant General, that it had not been possible for him to get any additional men in the time he had to recruit, that if he could have an extension of a few days, he would report the balance of his required number, and that he wished to be informed whether Tod would continue him in his appointment or not and whether he could have a longer time.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 217]

June 21, 1862
O.C. Pratt, Lieutenant, Ashtabula, Ashtabula County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that he would report thirty men in all, that he did not know how many men his assistants had as he could get no report from them, that he thought it would be safe to say that his assistants had ten men, that he presumed this was rather under than over the true number, that he would send some additional men into camp next week, that if the Adjutant General could continue him in his place without coming to Columbus, he wished it would be done as he did not like to waste the time, and that his average in getting men was about two per day.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 218]

June 21, 1862
George A. Purington, Major, George G. Miner, Major, and Henry L. Bennett, Major, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Headquarters, 2nd Brigade, Camp, Baxter's Springs. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that in the event of the resignation or promotion of Colonel Charles Doubleday, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, they recommended that their efficient and highly respected Lieutenant Colonel, R[obert] W. Ratliff, be appointed to the command of the 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 82]

June 21, 1862
M.B. Wright, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter requesting information respecting the date of the commission of Colonel [Frederick] Porschner, 47th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry compared with the date of the commission of Colonel George Crook, 36th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in seniority.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 216]

June 22, 1862
John Kennett, Colonel, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending Captain H[enry] C. Rodgers of Company I, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry for promotion to the position of Major made vacant by the resignation of James E. Dresbach; and stating that Rodgers was from Ironton, Ohio, that Rodgers was a very intelligent, well educated, attentive, thoroughly disciplined, and gallant officer, that Rodgers would prove competent to fill said rank with credit to himself and efficiency to his country, that Rodgers' promotion would meet the approval of all the officers and men composing his regiment, and that they were at Huntsville, Alabama.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 108]

June 22, 1862
John Kennett, Colonel, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C[harles] W. Hill. Letter requesting that various commissions be issued; and stating that the Governor had expressed a willingness to have him open a recruiting office at Cincinnati to fill up his regiment, and that he would do so as soon as he returned to Huntsville, Alabama and could send an officer for that purpose.
2 pp. [Series 147-39: 109]

June 22, 1862
Rufus King, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To the Honorable William Dennison, Columbus, Ohio. Letter stating that he had a cousin (Arthur Watts, Jr. of Chillicothe) in the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, that Watts had the Governor's promise of a Lieutenant's commission whenever an opportunity should occur, and that Watts' sister had written to him about the matter; asking Dennison to give Watts the benefit of his aid by speaking to Governor David Tod on the subject; and stating that Watts was a young man of excellent character, and that Watts had deported himself in all respects creditably and would make a good officer.
2 pp. [Series 147-39: 110]

June 23, 1862
J.S. Everich, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C[harles] W. Hill. Letter stating that in company with Captain Weaver, they brought sixty-nine men to Camp Chase with the explicit understanding that he should be 2nd Lieutenant of the company, that on arriving at camp, they were obliged to consolidate with a squad recruited by a Lieutenant Copeland, that as he had been in the service of the Government some nine months and had some knowledge of military affairs, the command of the company was given to him, that while occupied in drilling the company, some of those most interested were at work laying plans to defeat him and to deprive him of the office they had agreed to give him, that they deprived him of the privilege of an election knowing that he could beat Copeland, that if they had put the matter to the test of an election and Copeland had beaten him, he would have abided by the decision, that feeling as he did that great injustice had been done him, he did not feel like submitting and had made his statement to Hill, and that he was tendering his resignation of the position which he felt justly entitled to.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 223]

June 23, 1862
John D. Holcomb, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Sir. Letter stating that he had written twice to the addressee who would confer a great favor by giving him the information required, that he belonged to the 39th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry commanded by Colonel John Groesbeck, that Governor [William] Dennison sent him a Lieutenant's recruiting commission while in Missouri, that he came home, but could not get in a regiment, that as he had only a fifteen day furlough, he returned to his regiment, that he was 1st Sergeant in Company E, with the extra pay of twenty dollars per month from the Captain for drilling the company, that to save that money while he was at Columbus, the Captain appointed another man in his place, that when he returned to his regiment, he was forced to go to the ranks in a company whose members learned all they knew from him, that he applied to Groesbeck to let him go to Cincinnati and try again, that Groesbeck offered him the position of Captain of Company G, that this he refused as the company was against having a man from another company as their Captain, that when all hope was lost, he laid charges against Captain John S. Jenkins and Lieutenant John J. Hooker of Company E for defrauding the United States, that the case was so clear that Groesbeck sent him to Cincinnati on the same recruiting commission which Governor Dennison sent him, and that Groesbeck ordered him not to write to anyone in the regiment and to stay in Cincinnati; asking if he was discharged or if he was now a recruiting Lieutenant; and stating that if he was the latter, he wished to know to what command he belonged, that he was doing nothing, and that he had been at Cincinnati ever since January 12, 1862.
2 pp. [Series 147-39: 184]

June 23, 1862
J.C. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Corinth, Mississippi. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Field Orders No. 121; stating that the resignation of Captain James Taggart, 63rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on June 23, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 13]

June 23, 1862
S.S. Osborn, Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter calling Tod's attention to Battery G, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery; and stating that by some means, the battery had gotten badly disorganized and was greatly reduced both in men and horses, that judging from Privates discharged and officers returned, he was satisfied that the Captain lacked qualifications and was altogether incompetent, that his only son, E[ugene] A. Osborn, was a Lieutenant in the battery, that at the battery's organization at Camp Dennison, his son was made junior 1st Lieutenant, the position he thought him competent for and entitled to, that by some means, when commissions were made at Columbus, the Colonel had Eugene placed as senior 2nd Lieutenant, that [Thomas C.] Floyd, who had no military experience and never intended to go into the field, was made junior 1st Lieutenant, that this was as gross a piece of injustice as had been done, that Floyd had long been too sick to do duty, that Floyd never would be well enough to take the field of duty and of danger, and intended to resign if he could, that he was told that Captain [Joseph] Bartlett had recommended an outsider, not connected with the battery, to be appointed in Floyd's place and that Colonel [James] Barnett had endorsed it, that he could hardly believe it of Barnett, but had Floyd's words for it, that this would be such an insult and outrage to his son as would admit of no defense and such as no humble man could submit to, that from all sources, he heard a good account of his son and a bad one of Captain Bartlett, that it was evident that Bartlett had lost the confidence of all his men, that in the appointment of officers in the battery, he would deem it a personal obligation if Tod would do him the favor not to act upon any of them until he had the opportunity to explain and prove what he had said, that he had urged his son to resign, the service being hard and dangerous enough where one was rightly treated, that his son enlisted some of the best men who stuck to and depended upon him, that his son would dislike leaving them, that his son had a soldier's pride in the battery which he had labored hard to make efficient, and that his son did not wish to see it "fizzle out".
2 pp. [Series 147-39: 47]

June 23, [1862]
S.H. Rosecrans, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter recommending Sergeant Joseph O'Connor for a 2nd Lieutenancy; and stating that General [Jacob D.] Cox was willing to make O'Connor his aid if commissioned.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 50]

June 24, 1862
Joseph Bartlett, Captain, Battery G, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the bearer, Robert D. Whittlesey, was a Sergeant in Battery G, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery; requesting that Whittlesey be appointed as Lieutenant in said battery in place of T[homas] C. Floyd resigned; and stating that Whittlesey was entitled to said appointment by reason of superior ability as an artillerist and for his conduct on the battlefield of Shiloh.
2 pp. [Series 147-39: 31]

June 24, 1862
David A.B. Moore, Captain, Company D, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter stating that his health was improving although he was not gaining strength as quickly as hoped, that he did intend starting on Monday next to rejoin his regiment, that his physician remonstrated against him doing so, that although his complaint was checked, the least thing might bring it back again, that he was in a quandary what to do, that he wanted to go, but at the same time wanted to be able to do duty when he arrived, that by General Orders, he was ordered to report at Camp Chase, and that he went there and obtained a Surgeon's certificate and extended his leave until July 1; asking Hill to see Governor David Tod, or whoever was the proper man, and have his time extended one week as the time for him to start to rejoin his regiment; and stating that at said time, he would go trusting to Providence and a sound constitution. Bears a pencilled note stating that the case came within General Order No. 61, that if able to travel, although not fit for duty, he must report to Camp Chase and await action of the Medical Board, and that if not able to travel, he must apply to the Adjutant General for extension of leave.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 89]

June 24, 1862
P.W. Norris, Captain, Company C, Hoffman's Battalion, Johnson's Island. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter requesting some blank subsistence forms and pay rolls; and stating that all was moving along agreeably.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 148]

June 24, 1862
George D. Ruggles, Assistant Adjutant General, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter reporting that eleven officers of the volunteer forces from Ohio had resigned to take effect on the dates set opposite their respective names.
2 pp. [Series 147-39: 137]

June 24, 1862
James N. Scott, Captain, Company M, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was informed that several applications had been made to Tod by the friends of different members of his company to fill the vacancy created by the death of Lieutenant John M. Renick, that he left his regiment on May 28 to recruit his health, being prostrated by typhus fever, that Renick died the same day, that his 1st Lieutenant was Regimental Adjutant and his company was now under command of Captain Patton of the same battalion, that he hoped to be able to resume his duties the following week, that he would be obliged if Tod deferred making an appointment until hearing from him again, and that he was anxious to have the place filled by one who was competent and worthy of the position.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 84]

June 24, 1862
George B. Senter, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that C.L. Russell desired to be appointed Quartermaster for one of the new regiments, that Russell had been very active in military matters locally, raised a company early, and was elected Captain, that the company was not assigned to a regiment when it should have been, but was kept for so long a time in camp that it disbanded, that he knew Russell well, and that he thought Russell would make a first class officer.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 170]

June 24, 1862
L[orenzo] Thomas, Adjutant General, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington. To the Governor of Ohio. Extract from Special Orders No. 143; stating that 1st Lieutenant S.R. Ewing, and 2nd Lieutenant Frank Smith, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been reported on adversely by Boards of Examination and the President had approved the reports, and that these officers were discharged from the service to take effect on June 21, 1862. By order of the Secretary of War.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 22]

June 24, 1862
Benjamin Turner, Huron, Erie County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that if Tod gave him a Captain's commission, he would get up an infantry company, that he would not offer in this way, but he was satisfied that many more men were now wanted before Richmond and elsewhere, that it was time for men of his age to turn out, that as his son would be home in a short time, having been released from Salisbury, North Carolina upon parole, he could do no less than try his hand and see what success would attend his efforts, that his son was taken at Cross Lanes, western Virginia some ten months earlier and had been a prisoner, that if Tod thought his services were needed, he wished to have a commission sent and the necessary powers to recruit, and that with such authority, he would report very soon.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 203]

June 25, 1862
John Crist, et. al., Delphos, Allen County, Ohio. To ? Letter signed by eighteen individuals; stating that they had long known Dr. John D. Carey as a skillful physician; and recommending Carey to those in command of hospitals as a suitable person for them to employ in treating the sick or wounded soldiers.
1 p. [Series 147-39: 226]

June 25, 1862
T[homas] W. Forshee, Tonica, Illinois. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that there was or would be a vacancy in Company K, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry of a 2nd Lieutenancy; recommending Quartermaster Sergeant [Abijah S.] Chears of Company K for promotion in place of Lieutenant [Abram F.] McCurdy resigned; and stating that Chears was worthy and fully competent for the position, that he was Captain of Company K from its organization until June 6, that he could recommend Chears without any hesitancy, being better acquainted with his qualifications than anyone else in the regiment, that Chears had been a resident of Columbus for many years and his family resided there now, that Chears had many influential friends, that Colonel Minor Millikin might have already sent Chears' name or someone else's for the position, that Chears was the only non-commissioned officer in the company who had a family, that Chears was a poor man, and that when a poor man was equally competent, he should have the preference.
2 pp. [Series 147-39: 86]