Miller - States at war. Volume 5, A reference guide for Ohio in the Civil War

States at War

VOLUME 5

A Reference Guide for

Ohio in the Civil War

RICHARD F. MILLER, editor

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

States at war : a reference guide for... in the Civil War / Richard F. Miller, editor.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61168-688-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-61168-689-0 (ebook)

1. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865. 2. U.S. statesHistory, Military19th century. 3. U.S. statesPolitics and government19th century. 4. U.S. statesEconomic conditions19th century. I. Miller, Richard F., 1951

E468.S79 2012

To Alyson.
Specially dedicated to my father, Samuel H. Miller

Thematic Listing of Material

Key Events

Legislative Sessions

State Military Affairs

Acknowledgments

Editors of others works are under especially heavy obligations. Thousands of state legislators, numerous adjutants general, governors, memoirists, biographers, secondary source historians, genealogists, census takers, soldiers, and sailorsalong with the War Department bureaucrats assembled by the able Provost Marshal General James B. Frydid the acts and created the texts on which this work is based. Thanks are due to them in the same measures that are sometimes reserved for the other faces of the Norths Civil War, say, Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan. Causality is not stretched (at all) in noting that without the generally able (and sometimes extraordinarily able) efforts of governors, adjutants general, and state legislatures, there would have been no armies to command or funds to finance them.

Next, thanks are tendered to the custodians of this vast record. The staff in the Widener Librarys Reading Room was unfailingly helpfuldespite the hardships of budget cutsin the delivery and setup of now frail, original sources kept in what the editor fantasizes as Harvards bottomless depository. Special thanks also are due to the staff at Harvard Law Schools Langdell Library. Since this editors dreary days in law school, many state statutes have become available online through in-library subscription services and, occasionally, through Google Books. Alas, few of these statutes cover the period from 1860 to 1866 and, after a hiatus of thirty-three years, the editor was once again in a law library scanning microfiche, although this time with far weaker eyesight. (The more things change, the more they are different.) The Langdell staff graciously assisted with finicky reader-printers, locating microfiche and, on more than one occasion, introducing the editor to the mysteries of Hein Online.

States at War was enormously improved by the criticism of Professor Emeritus James McPherson of Princeton University, Associate Professor of History Robert Bonner at Dartmouth College, and the dean of Vermonts Civil War history, Mr. Howard Coffin.

When States at War is complete it will include all states and territories that were inor temporarily out ofthe Union. The value of such an extensive project is hardly self-evident. That UPNE editor Phyllis Deutsch found value here is something that exceeds this particular wordsmiths smithy and so it will be left unsaid. I wish to thank production editor Amanda Dupuis and copyeditor Peter Fong whose efforts have not only improved this volume but also have contributed to the improvement of every volume to follow. I also wish to thank researcher Lori Miller (no relation) for her willingness to follow my bibliographic footprint, check sources and, in the process, save this work from manifold embarrassments.

While errors are inevitable in projects like these, this editor alone is responsible for all that appears here, and can only repent in advance by inviting readers to communicate the mistakes found so that, should this work find favor, corrections can be made at a later time.

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used throughout the text of this volume.

AAG: Assistant Adjutant General

AAPMG: Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General

ADC: Aide-de-camp

ASW: Assistant Secretary of War

AWOL: Away without leave

EO: Enrollment Officer

GO: General Orders

JAG: Judge Advocate General

NCO: Non-commissioned officer

OVI: Ohio Volunteer Infantry

PMG: Provost Marshal General

POW: Prisoner of war

SO: Special Orders

UDC: Union Defence Committee

USA: United States Army

USCT: United States Colored Troops

USV: United States Volunteers

VRC: Veteran Reserve Corps

The following abbreviations are used throughout the notes.

AAC: The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events

AG: Annual Report of the Adjutant General to the Governor of the State of Ohio

BD: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 17742005

CQ: Congressional Quarterlys Guide to U.S. Elections

CW: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

HJ: Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States

OGL.61: Acts of a General Nature and Local Laws and Joint Resolutions passed at the Fifty-Fourth General Assembly of the State of Ohio [second session]

OGL.62: Acts of a General Nature and Local Laws and Joint Resolutions passed by the Fifty-Fifth General Assembly of the State of Ohio [first session]

OGL.63: General and Local Laws and Joint Resolutions passed at the Fifty-Fifth General Assembly of the State of Ohio [second session]

OGL.64: General and Local Laws and Joint Resolutions, passed at the Fifty-Sixth General Assembly of the State of Ohio [first session]

OGL.65: General and Local Laws and Joint Resolutions, passed at the Fifty-Sixth General Assembly of the State of Ohio [second session]

OR: Official Records

QMG: Annual Report of the Quartermaster General to the Governor of the State of Ohio

SGR.63: Annual Report of the Surgeon General for the year 1863

SJ: Journal of the Senate of the United States

Cin - Cincinnati

wards 1-5, 9-11, 13

Ham - Hamilton

But - Butler

Mnt - Montgomery

Pbl - Preble

Drk - Darke

Mia - Miami

Sby - Shelby

Agz - Auglaize

Aln - Allen

Mer - Mercer

Vn Wt - Van Wert

Put - Putnam

Han - Hancock

Wod - Wood

Luc - Lucas

Hny - Henry

Ftn - Fulton

Wil - Williams

Dfn - Defiance

Pdg - Paulding

Cle - Clermont

Brn - Brown

Ads - Adams

Hld - Highland

War - Warren

Cnt - Clinton

Fay - Fayette

Mad - Madison

Grn - Green

Clk - Clark

Chn- Champaign

Log - Logan

Uni - Union

Del - Delaware

Hrd - Harden

Mar - Marion

Crw - Crawford

Wyn - Wyandot

Sen - Seneca

San - Sandusky

Ota - Ottawa

Sco - Sciotto

Law- Lawrence

Gal - Gallia

Jks - Jackson

Pke - Pike

Rss - Ross

Mgs - Meigs

Ath - Athens

Per - Perry

Fld - Fairfield

Hoc - Hocking