July 21, 1862
A.C. Null, New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter requesting a commission as a Lieutenant to recruit in Columbiana County.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 50]

July 21, 1862
S.S. Osborn, Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the 1st Lieutenant's commission for 2nd Lieutenant E[ugene] A. Osborn, Battery G, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery had not been received, and that he not only liked, but advocated Tod's views as to substitutes.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 64]

July 21, 1862
James E. Philpot, Adjutant, 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Camp Clear Creek. To Robert McCarty. Letter directing McCarty to proceed to Columbus, Ohio to arrange the business matters of the 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry with the Governor of Ohio, to procure the filling up of all vacancies in the commissioned officers of said regiment, and to report his action to regimental headquarters as soon as possible. By order of Colonel E[phraim] R. Eckley, 80th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 182]

July 21, 1862
H[iram] H. Poe, Captain, Company I, et. al., 68th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Grand Junction, Tennessee. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter signed by twenty commissioned officers of the 68th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and recommending the promotion of Lieutenant Colonel Robert K. Scott to Colonel, and the promotion of Captain Lewis Y. Richards to Lieutenant Colonel.
3 pp. [Series 147-43: 200]

July 21, [1862]
W.S.V. Prentiss, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter regarding his brother's discharge; stating that his brother lived in Morrow County; and suggesting that his brother be commissioned in Vance's regiment.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 9]

July 21, 1862
A.J. Ricks, Lieutenant recruiting for 104th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Massillon, Stark County, Ohio. To Adjutant General C[harles] W. Hill. Letter stating that he had opened his recruiting office that morning and was ready for work; and asking if he was in any way subordinate to Captain O[scar] W. Sterl recruiting for the 104th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Massillon and if so, in what respect, if he was successful in enlisting the required number for a company, could the company elect their Captain, 2nd Lieutenant, and other non-commissioned officers, if he was to be attached to any of the three Captains already commissioned for Stark County, could he choose the one to whom he should be attached, and how many men must he raise to secure his commission as 1st Lieutenant.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 71]

July 21, 1862
William Rininger, et. al., Attica, Seneca County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by twenty-two individuals; stating that Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio had sent over one hundred volunteers, and that of said number, there was not one who held a commission; and requesting that Tod commission Alonzo C. Jones of Company B, 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry to an office.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 104]

July 21, 1862
E. P[arker] Scammon, Colonel, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commanding 1st Provisional Brigade, and C[arr] B. White, Colonel, 12th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Flat Top Mountain, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending Lieutenant Colonel Freeman E. Franklin, 34th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as eminently fitted for the Colonelcy of one of the regiments now forming in Ohio.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 107]

July 21, 1862
James F. Smith, Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the greatest barrier now in the way of recruiting was General George B. McClellan not being recalled, that if he could be commissioned to recruit in Erie County, Huron County, Sandusky County, and Seneca County, he was persuaded that he could raise a company in a short time, and that they were in the height of harvest and their recruits would be mostly farmers with some mechanics; and citing references.
4 pp. [Series 147-43: 57]

July 21, 1862
Joseph C. Smith, Captain, Company E, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Camp below Corinth, Mississippi. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter regarding the date of his commission.
4 pp. [Series 147-43: 168]

July 21, 1862
J[ohn] S. Snook, Grand Junction, Tennessee. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that he was acting as Major of the 68th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that since February, there had been an effort in the regiment to displace Colonel S[amuel] H. Steedman, that he believed said effort was pushed to an unwarrantable extremity, amounting at times to open mutiny, and he did not approve of it, that he had the misfortune to fall under the displeasure of a clique of officers favoring the pretensions of Lieutenant Colonel [Robert K.] Scott who headed the onslaught on Steedman, that said clique was now doing all they could against him, that the Adjutant General knew how easy it was for designing men, possessed of a little cunning, to prejudice the public for a time, and that a promotion to the office of Lieutenant Colonel would soon be made in the regiment and he hoped no hasty action would be taken in the matter, but that a sufficient time would elapse for things to cool before the appointment was made.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 137]

July 21, 1862
William Stanton, Member, [Ohio] House of Representatives, Hamilton County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter regarding an appointment for his nephew, Stanton Weaver.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 68]

July 21, 1862
J.N. Stark, Delaware County War Committee, Kingston Center, Delaware County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter regarding B.W. Wilcox of the 18th Regulars; asking if Tod would get Wilcox out so he could accept his commission in the 96th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and stating that Wilcox was an excellent man to raise volunteers.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 22]

July 21, 1862
Leander Stem, et. al., Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by thirty-five individuals; stating that at a meeting of the District Military Committee composed of Erie County, Huron County, Seneca County, Wyandot County, and Crawford County, it was agreed to locate the camp for the 101st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Monroeville, Huron County, that since then, many of the citizens of said counties decided that it would greatly facilitate the raising of recruits to change the location of the camp to Tiffin, and that local residents offered to furnish the camp grounds rent free; and requesting that Tod delay action on the matter.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 27]

July 21, 1862
P.B. Swing, and R.W. Clarke, Military Committee of Clermont County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that Jacob Flegle of Clermont County had a company of thirty men which he wanted to organize into a company of sharpshooters; asking if Flegle could be authorized to recruit such a company, and how many men should compose it; stating that if such authority could be given, they recommended Flegle's commission for that purpose; and asking if cavalry could be raised under the state military law, or if there was provision for anything other than infantry companies.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 51]

July 21, 1862
Peter A. Temple, Delphos, Allen County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that he was now nearly sixty years of age and in good health, had a good, sound constitution, and would proceed at once to raise a company if he could get a Captain's commission.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 52]

July 21, 1862
Horace W. Wayne, Mantua, Portage County, Ohio. To Adjutant General Charles W. Hill. Letter asking if any individual liable to a draft could obtain a substitute, if any individual liable to a draft could obtain a substitute that was liable to a draft, and if any individual liable to a draft could obtain an individual that was not a naturalized citizen.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 155]

July 21, 1862
Thomas H. Wells, Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that the county military committees felt somewhat embarrassed by finding recruiting officers appointed for that regimental district without their knowledge, that it appeared necessary to promise commissions to those at home who could best forward the recruiting service, and that to prevent the appointment of a Major to the 105th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry before the military committee report, the friends of Lieutenant George T. Perkins wished his name brought before Tod for that appointment which they had no doubt would be unanimously supported by the committee.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 16]

July 21, 1862
E.R. Williams, et. al., Ashtabula, Ashtabula County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter signed by eight individuals; and recommending John F. Gifford for appointment as a 2nd Lieutenant to be attached to the 105th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 162]

July 21, 1862
W.M. Wilson, Farmer's Bank, Greenville, Darke County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that [Joseph W.] Frizell had consented to enter the service again, that Frizell would not have resigned from the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry if it had not been for his great dislike of Colonel [Charles A.] DeVilliers, that Frizell was a spirited, high-minded Kentuckian and had no patience to deal with such a man as DeVilliers, that Captain John Drury of Troy, who was with Frizell in the 11th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, had consented to raise a company again if Frizell would go as Colonel, that when Tod saw Frizell and Drury, he would not think it strange that such men could not consent to be under the command of an ignorant French rascal and mad pretender, that he was writing from the fact that Tod had some rule against re-appointing officers who had resigned, and that he hoped that military [red] tape would not deprive the country of the service of such capable men.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 130]

July 21, 1862
George L. Wood, Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio. To B.F. Hoffman, Columbus, Ohio. Letter stating that his friends in Trumbull County, Lake County, and Geauga County were desirous that he consent to be a candidate for the position of Major or Lieutenant Colonel of the 105th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that he thought he was by right entitled to something given the experience he had and the amount of labor he had performed, that he had therefore consented to allow his name to come before the Trumbull County Military Committee, that all of the committees were slow and it occurred to him that the Governor might get impatient and appoint before the committee had met, and that his desire was that the Governor should either await the action of the committee or give his friends an opportunity to urge his appointment.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 128]

July 21, 1862
J.M. Wright, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Army of the Ohio, Huntsville, Alabama. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Special Orders No. 109; stating that the resignations of 2nd Lieutenant Theodore Michaels, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 1st Lieutenant A.W. Daniels, 13th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry were accepted to take effect on July 21, 1862. By command of Major General [Don Carlos] Buell.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 185]

July 22, 1862
E.L. Barber, Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio. To the Governor of Ohio. Letter accepting the position of Commandant of the camp of rendezvous recently established near Toledo, Ohio.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 78]

July 22, 1862
Samuel Beatty, Colonel, 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commanding 11th Brigade, Headquarters. To Governor David Tod. Letter stating that several vacancies had occurred in the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and recommendations had been made to fill said vacancies from officers of the line, without regard to rank or seniority, that he learned since said recommendations were made that much dissatisfaction existed, which might prove detrimental to the best interests of the regiment, and that he respectfully suggested that Tod fill said vacancies from the roster in his possession, regardless of said recommendations, as he considered each officer in the 19th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry capable of filling any vacancy that might occur therein.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 198]

July 22, 1862
C.L. Boalt, Chairman, Military Committee of Huron County, Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio. To Adjutant General [Charles W.] Hill. Letter stating that at a meeting of the county military committees of that Regimental District (101st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry) held on July 17 in Tiffin, all the field officers not then appointed were recommended for appointments; asking who would select the grounds for a camp at Monroeville; and stating that he was called on by John Friend who claimed to be authorized, if the military committees consented, to raise a regiment of Germans in the northern part of the state, that they told Friend that in providing funds by voluntary subscription to pay a bounty of $25 to each recruit, they had not taken him into account, that Friend said that the Germans would pay the same bounty and would themselves provide the money if the state should not do so, and that there were many Germans in Huron County who might be enlisted in such a regiment that probably could not be reached in any other way.
3 pp. [Series 147-43: 140]

July 22, 1862
L.D. Booth, Lieutenant, Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio. To the Adjutant General of Ohio. Letter stating that he wished to be in the camp of Captain Wells and he believed that was the understanding with the military committee, and that he would go and see Wells in the morning and get to work; and requesting that the Adjutant General write on for his transfer.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 99]

July 22, 1862
J[ames] M. Comly, Major, and R[utherford] B. Hayes, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Camp at Pack's Ferry, Virginia. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending Captain C[arlos] A. Sperry of Company B, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry for a higher position in the service.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 166]

July 22, 1862
Thomas T. Cowen, 1st Lieutenant Commanding Company H, and S[amuel] H. Steedman, Colonel, 68th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Headquarters, Grand Junction, Tennessee. To Governor David Tod. Letter recommending 1st Sergeant Robert B. Mead of Company H for promotion to fill the vacant position of 2nd Lieutenant in the company; and stating that there was only one commissioned officer present with the company.
1 p. [Series 147-43: 96]

July 22, 1862
Hiram W. Floyd, Medina, Medina County, Ohio. To Governor David Tod. Letter regarding a commission for his son, William H. Floyd; and stating that as there was to be a regiment raised in Medina County, Lorain County, and Cuyahoga County, he would like to have his son commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of one of the companies to be raised in Medina County, and that he was in hopes that the war might not last more than one year longer, but he must say that the signs of the times portrayed a different state of things.
2 pp. [Series 147-43: 6]

July 22, 1862
H.J. Hayes, Walker & Hayes, Produce Commission Merchants & Forwarders, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. To Dear General. Letter requesting a situation for his oldest son, Orlin S. Hayes; stating that his son was subject to severe spells of sick headache and could not stand long marches and extreme exposures, and that they were having war meetings every night, but enlistments were slow and he feared would be from the northwest; and asking if his brother, Captain E.L. Hayes, could be transferred from an Illinois regiment to an Ohio regiment.
3 pp. [Series 147-43: 5]