July 10, 1862
J.E. Gregg, Captain, Company E, et. al., 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Harrison's Landing, James River, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by seven Captains and nine Lieutenants of the 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; stating that by the promotion of S.S. Carroll, Colonel, 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, they would be deprived of a commander whose energy and ability had placed them in their present enviable position, and that a further promotion of their Lieutenant Colonel and Major would tend to demoralize the regiment; and requesting that someone outside of the officers of the regiment be appointed to fill the vacancy.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 205]
July 11, 1862
J.A. Ambler, Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending Stanton Weaver of Salem as a proper person to recruit at that location. Bears the endorsement of Thomas C. Boone, Member, Military Committee of Columbiana County.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 67]
July 11, 1862
F[erdinand] F. Rempel, Lieutenant Colonel, 58th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter recommending James B. Christie, a young man who had been acting as his secretary at Pittsburgh Landing.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 144]
July 14, 1862
James Cantwell, Colonel, D[avid] Thomson, Major, and F.S. Jacobs, Adjutant, 82nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp near Woodville, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending Sergeant William F. Scott of Company E as a suitable person to fill the position of 1st Lieutenant in said company.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 94]
July 14, 1862
James E. Gregg, Captain, Company E, 8th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Harrison's Landing, James River, Virginia. To Earl Bill. Letter regarding a promotion for [?] Harper; and stating that everything was very quiet there, but they could not tell how long it would continue, and that they had a very strong position and could not be driven away.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 180]
July 14, 1862
J. Chester Harrison, 1st Lieutenant and Regimental Adjutant, 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Dear Colonel. Letter recommending Osceola Minor, Company F, 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry for a commission.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 122]
July 14, 1862
Benjamin F. Stone, 1st Lieutenant, Commanding Company C, 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Sperryville, Virginia. To ? Letter stating that having learned that an expression of opinion touching the vacant Lieutenant Colonelcy was desired of the officers of the 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, they desired to say that Major Richard Long was entirely unfit for said position.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 94]
July 14, 1862
John W.F. Williams, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Harrison's Landing, [Virginia]. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he had now carried a musket for nearly fourteen months and was willing to do so until the rebellion was crushed, but as there were new regiments being raised, he thought of something better; and requesting a commission as Lieutenant.
3 pp. [Series 147-43: 70]
July 15, 1862
Thomas Beach, Captain, and L[uther] M. Buchwalter, Lieutenant, 73rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Sperryville, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter regarding a petition for the promotion of Captain [Samuel H.] Hurst to the Lieutenant Colonelcy.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 106]
July 15, 1862
J[acob] D. Cox, Brigadier General Commanding, Headquarters, District of the Kanawha, Flat Top Mountain. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Captain H.S. Clement, Company A, 12th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been with him in service for more than a year past and had proven himself a brave, prompt, intelligent, and reliable officer; and recommending Clement for promotion in the organization of new regiments in Ohio.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 69]
July 15, 1862
M[anning] F. Force, Colonel, 20th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp near Grand Junction. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter regarding certain commissions which might have been on a train destroyed by the rebels.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 179]
July 15, 1862
James P. Fyffe, Colonel, 59th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Battle Creek, Tennessee. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that there was no vacancy in Company C, 59th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the office of 2nd Lieutenant for which he recommended Orderly Sergeant William King, and that the mistake occurred by the resignation of James Jennings having been mislaid and finally not accepted, he having recovered his health.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 204]
July 15, 1862
W[illiam] Howard, Major, 59th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp near Battle Creek, Tennessee. To Governor David Tod. Letter regarding five nominations previously recommended; and requesting that those commissions not be issued since vacancies for said positions had not occurred as anticipated.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 177]
July 15, 1862
William Lawrence, Camp Lawrence, Cumberland, Maryland. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that N.N. McGinnis of the 26th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry desired to raise a company and command it as Captain; and recommending McGinnis for an appointment. Bears the endorsement of A.S. Ramsey.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 35]
July 15, 1862
John S. Mason, Colonel, 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp near Harrison's Landing, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending the promotion of 1st Sergeant William Welch of Company A to 2nd Lieutenant.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 82]
July 15, 1862
Henry S. Wetmore, Captain, 9th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. To ? Letter testifying to the gallant and soldierlike conduct of Sergeant G[eorge] J. Rudell, 9th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery; and stating that Rudell's qualifications for a commission were preeminent, and that Rudell had won promotion by his conduct.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 100]
July 16, 1862
C.M. Dengler, Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter stating that he considered it absolutely necessary to have a personal interview with Hill and the Governor in order to get proper employment and be placed in the right place to mutual and general benefit; and requesting a free ticket from Wauseon to Columbus.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 141]
July 16, 1862
Moses R. Dickey, Colonel, 15th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp near Stevenson, Alabama. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending Henry C. Hodgdon to fill a vacancy. Bears the endorsement of R.W. Johnson, Brigadier General.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 178]
July 16, 1862
W.K. Foutch, Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that as pastor of the church to which William Knowlden, Chaplain of the 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, belonged, he felt it his duty to write, that if he was not mistaken, only ministers of the gospel were eligible to the Chaplaincy, and that if so, Knowlden could not officiate as such as he was not and never had been a minister.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 18]
July 16, 1862
James Gibson, Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he had not yet received a Captain's commission, that he felt confident he could raise 40 or 50 men locally in forty-eight hours, that he feared their county military committee was not efficient enough, that the committee did not appear to be doing anything, and that there was too much "old fogyism" in said committee.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 34]
July 16, 1862
A.W. Lawwill, Company H, 12th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp Flat Top, Western Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was the first man to enlist in Huntington Township, Brown County, Ohio, that he had been in the army for one year and three months, that he wished to get the opportunity to recruit a company, and that he thought there was more to be gained by energy than by drilling.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 116]
July 16, 1862
Daniel C. Liggett, 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant, 62nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, near Harrison's Bar, Virginia. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter declining a commission as Captain in the 62nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that he could best serve his country in his present capacity.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 176]
July 16, 1862
William J. Loy, Jamestown, Greene County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he had been discharged from the service in consequence of diseased eyes, that his sight had returned and he desired to enter the service again, and that being an experienced horseman and possessing considerable knowledge of cavalry tactics, he had been induced by a number of friends wishing to join the Ohio volunteer cavalry to address Tod asking permission to raise a company of cavalry in that district.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 34]
July 16, 1862
N.H. McLean, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Mississippi, Corinth, Mississippi. To the Governor of Ohio. Special Field Orders No. 163; stating that the resignation of 1st Lieutenant Aquilla Coonrod, 48th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was accepted to take effect on July 16, 1862. By order of Major General [Henry] Halleck.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 32]
July 16, 1862
L[ionel] A. Sheldon, Colonel, 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Virginia. To Adjutant General C[harles] W. Hill. Letter stating that the resignation of 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Lackey, 42nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry had been accepted; and recommending the appointment of Sergeant Peter Miller to fill the vacancy.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 238]
July 16, 1862
John T. Toland, Colonel, 34th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Flat Top Tannery. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter reporting a vacancy in Company G, 34th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry created by the resignation of Captain C.G. Broadwell; recommending promotions; and stating that he trusted the scarcity of officers on duty in the regiment and the probabilities of an early movement would be a sufficient apology for urging prompt action in forwarding commissions for the recommended individuals.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 91]
July 16, 1862
W.P. Wells, Wellsville, Columbiana County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he wanted to be the Sutler of one of the new Ohio regiments of one year men.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 42]
July 17, 1862
W.B. Bowland, Winchester, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was on hand with the 32nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but matters did not suit him exactly, that he would be much gratified to have Tod recall him and make the promotions in the company, and that he was not particular as to position.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 147]
July 17, 1862
Adam Bratton, Valley Ford, Meigs County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter requesting a Captain's commission.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 13]
July 17, 1862
A. Haines, Eaton, Preble County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that instead of military committees, the volunteers by vote should signify the officers and those and none other should be appointed, that this would dispose of the herd of "silk stockins" and "kid glove gentry" and bring out the middle and laboring classes where the bone and sinew of the country now was and always had been, that men and not boys should be called into the field and ought to be led by those of their choice when in service, that when men entered the service, they should be allowed, as in private life, to designate their leaders, that he feared it would be necessary to resort to a draft in the end and thought the sooner it came the better, and that in one sense he liked a draft as it would place all on a level and bring in a class of men who talked much, but never acted themselves.
4 pp. [Series 147-43: 11]