WEST VIRGINIA
ADJUTANT GENERALS' PAPERS

Union Regiments
1861-1865
Ar382

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10th West Virginia Infantry
(Field and Staff, Companies A - K, Unassigned/Recruits)
Box 17, Folder 2

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Dear Sir,
The bearer of this, Mr. O. P. Boughner, is the young man whom I have selected for Adjutant of my Regt.

He is a young man of very fair abilities, and good education.

I believe his habits, and character, to be good; and I learn he has some considerable knowledge of tactics. He is a good clerk, and I feel sure from a consideration of his talents, education, character, habits etc. that he can soon make himself familiar with the duties of the office to which I desire him appointed. Will you be so good as to give him the benefit of your influence.

I would be glad if you could find an opportunity to introduce him to Gen. Rosecrans, and show him this letter. Please do all that you can to have him commissioned for me. Show this letter to the Gov. also present Mr. Boughner to him if you please, in order that he may be able to judge of the propriety of his appointment. I am fully aware of the importance of having a competent man in this office, and it is only from a conviction of his ability to qualify himself for the discharge of its duties, that I urge his appointment.

Very Truly
Your obdt. Servt.
Thos. M. Harris
Lt. Col. 10th Regt. Va. Vol.

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Adjt 10th Regt Vols USS
Lt Boughner
Commission as requested
F. H. Pierpoint

Weston Jan 29th 1862
H. J. Samuels
Adjt. Gen. Va.

Dear Sir,
Since my last report I have visited this place and Buckhannon. Company D is being recruited at this place and is now up to 50 men. The bearer of this Mr. Jedediah G. Waldo has been duly elected 1st Lieut of the company you will please have him commissioned accordingly. You will please certify this fact to the governor and have him issue his commission. I am also satisfactorily informed that the Braxton Co. company is now entitled to organize by the election of a Lieut. I shall start for Braxton in the morning. This will be Company E. Marsh I have not heard from. He had 23 men last week. I shall have a report from him in a few days.

There is a company started at Buckhannon with sixteen men. The prominent citizens there have confidence in the success of this company. There are now twenty five men recruited at Harrisville. This has been done in two weeks and the prospect is fair for a company there.

I have not heard from my Philippi company. I understand there is a company commenced in Randolph Co that promises to succeed. My Company A is part at Sutton and part at Fort Pickens numbers near 100 men.

Company B at the upper end of Upshur Co. numbers 92 men,
Company C at Glenville numbers near 100 men.

My Adjt. will commence giving regular abstract reports week after next when you will be more accurately informed of the condition of the Regt.

Very Respectfully
Your obdt. Servt.
T. M. Harris
Lt. Col. 10th Regt. Va. Vol.

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Lieut J D Waldo
9th Infy Regt
US Vols
T. M. Harris
Weston Va.
Jany 23rd/63

Weston Feb 5th 1862
To H. J. Samuels
Adjt. Gen Va.

Dear Sir
Since my last report I have organized my company C in Sutton Braxton Co. by the election of Nimrod M. Hyer 1st Lieut. you will please have his commission issued and forward it to him at Sutton. This company has 45 names enrolled. Company D at this place is now up to 60 and steadily increasing. Companies A B & C are stationed respectively at Sutton and Camp Fort Pickens Co A at Camp Cainan Upshur Co. Company B at Glenville Company C. Having near one hundred men in each Company. I expect to organize a company at Philippi in Barbour Co. next week. The work is progressing favorably at every point as far as I have been informed. I have a company being recruited in Calhoun Co. with some show for success.

I am making arrangements for having morning reports sent in once a week from which to give weekly an accurate condensed view of the condition and progress of my Regt.

I desire you to have Morgan A. Darnall commissioned Captain of Company A, and Joseph G. Bouse and Ausbin Willson 1st + 2nd Lieutenants respectively of the same. These are really the officers of the company altho. the muster Roll sent by me to you don't show it so. I have explained the matter to Gen. Rosecrans and wish you to consult him about the matter. There will have to be a new roll made out for this company. Please give me instructions in regard to this matter.

Very Respectfully
Your obdt. Servt.
T. M. Harris
Lt. Col. 10th Regt. Va. Vol.

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Issue comm to N M Hyer as requested
F H Pierpoint

Weston Feb 6th 1862
To Brig. Gen. W. S. Rosecrans

Dear Sir,
I report my officers to you as follows; viz.
Co. A. Morgan A. Darnall Capt
Joseph G. Bouse 1st LIeut
Ausbin Willson 2nd Lieut
Co B. David Morgan Capt
Chas. Morgan 1st Lieut
Henry H. Lewis 2nd Lieut
Co C. Wm. D. Hall Capt
Wm. C. Hebener 1st Lieut
Jas. P. Conley
Co. D. Jedediah Waldo 1st Leiut
Co. E. Nimrod M. Hyer 1st Lieut

Of these all the officers of Co. A. are without their commissions but duly entitled to them and have been since about the middle of Novr. I was not aware of the fact that they had not been commissioned until last week. I have duly explained the whole matter to you. Please have them commissioned.

Nimrod M. Hyer Co. E. has not yet been commissioned. Commission applied for. There are none on detached service at present.

T. M. H. Lt. Col. 10th Regt
Va. Vol.

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Hd Quarters Depmt.
W.Va. Feby 10th 1862
Respectfully referred to Govr. Pierpoint in order that the officers mentioned may be commissioned.
By order Brig Genl Rosecrans
C Goddard
1st Lt. 12th Inf O.V.
Certificate for officers of 10th Regt
Officers comd
Feb 18th 62

Weston Feb 23rd 1862
H. J. Samuels
Adjt. Gen. Va.

Dear Sir,
Company D 10th Regt. has been organized by the election of the bearer of this note Thomas D Murrin Capt. and Daniel Curran 2nd Lieut. You will please have their commissions issued and let the Capt. Be [unreadable] in the _ there. I want to have this _ for the company mustered in on Friday next _ _ take next _ able as yet _ _ _ personal application _ __ to get trusted Rolls _ be glad if yu would aid Capt _ it getting a supply so _ _ not be disappointed about getting _ company mustered in _ is a matter of great importance to me as _ mustering in depends on it.

Very Respectfully
Your obedient servant
T. M. Harris
Lt. Col. 10th Regt. Va. Vol.
Rank 18th Feby.
1862

Clarksburg May 9th /62
Gov. F. H. Pierpont

Dear Sir
You will please issue a captains commission for Marshall W. Coburn and a 2nd Lieutenants commission for Isaac Rollins Co. H 10th Regt. Va. Vol. they having been duly elected by a clear majority of a full company.

Very Respectfully
Your obdt. Servt.
T. M. Harris
Lt. Col. 10th Va.

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M W Coburn
Capt 10th Regt Va
Vols (certificate)
Issue as requested

Buckhannon May 21st 1862
Gov. F H. Pierpoint

Dear Sir
I have been ordered by Gen Fremont to put John L. Gould in command of my Company B and ask you to commission him.

The reason of the suspension of Capt. Morgan is his utter incompetency. He has never obeyed strictly any order I have ever given him. I sent him out in command of one hundred men into Webster Co. with definite instructions or orders how long he was to stay and what he was to do. He went and stayed a portion of the time and them put it to the vote of his men whether they would stay longer or come home. They voted to come home and this vote superceded my orders.

I then ordered him to bring his whole command in to this place. He came with his whole force, leaving twenty five enfield rifles all his ammunition (a large supply) and his camp equipage in part at Camp Cainaan just on the borders of Webster Co.

If it did not fall into the hands of the guerillas we owe the Capt. no thanks for it. These are simply specimens of his incapacity.

He has been doing no thing but blunder and stumble along during his whole official career and his company tho composed of good material has been in a demoralized condition for months on account of his want of qualifications to command. He is a clever well meaning old man truly loyal and patriotic and courageous. Personally I have great respect for him. I therefore do not desire to have him court martialed and appealed appealed to Gen Fremont because the good of the Service required that I should have his company put under competent command.

The young man Jno. L. Gould is a number one young man has had nine months experience as a soldier has filled the place of orderly sergeant in Co. E. of the 3rd Va. and has the natural qualifications to make him a good captain.

I desire he should be commissioned without delay.

I desire also that Robt. W. Varner should be commissioned 2nd Lieut in Co G. He has been duly elected by a number that is clear majority of a full company.

Very Respectfully
Yours
T. M. Harris
Lt. Col. 10th Va.

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Commission as requested
F. H. Pierpoint
Jno L. Gould's
Recommendation
10th Regt Vols

Buckhanon May 23rd 1862
Gov. F. H. Pierpoint

Dear Sir,
Company F. at Sutton is now considerably above the minimum. They have elected Lt. Nimrod M. Hyer Captain H. Rollyson 1st Lieut and Henry Bender 2nd Lieut. You will please forward their commissions to me accordingly.

I have not yet received the commissions of Robt. Varner 2nd Lieut Co. G. nor of Benjamin F. Shreve 2nd Lieut Co. E.

Will you be so good as to furnish them to me. The Lieutenants are anxious about them.

I now have but three companies but what are fully organized and they lack but a few men each.

They will soon be up. I am ordered to concentrate here and to day will have six companies here. I shall need all my field officers badly as I am ordered to protect my district against guerillas by sending out strong detachments to scout different portions of it. My district is at this time much infested by guerillas and requires very active operations.

A party of guerillas under Walter Cool who was the Sheriff of Webster Co. came last week into the neighborhood of Camp Cainaan and robbed one Wm. Hyer taking all his horses and plundering his house taking all their clothing bedding shoes stocking etc. They even took all the bonnets and jewelry off the female portion of his family. I ordered out a scout of 50 men under Capt. Hall Co K 3rd Va. from Huttonsville to come in on them from that side and sent a detachment of fifty men under Lieut Lewis Co. B 10th Regt. from this side after them. Capt. Hall fell in with and captured that portion of this party that had started off with the horses to sell them and captured them all together with the horses. The ballance of the stolen property he did not look for as he deemed it best to secure what he had got and at once came in with the prisoners and horses arriving here by forced marches on Thursday eving having marched his men and prisoners 37 miles the first day after the capture was made.

He also brought in Mrs. Arthur the widow of a Mr. Arthur who was killed by two of the Chewnings one of whom has been captured and is now a prisoner in charge of Gen Milroy. Capt Hall brot Mrs. Arthur and her son in by order of Gen Milroy to be used as witnesses in the case.

They will swear that the two Chewnings first captured her husband and sent him a prisoner to Louisburg whence he was sent to Richmond. By the intercession of friends he was released and came home tired and sick. On the day after he got home the Chewnings came there called him out and told him they would give him 15 minutes to leave and return to Richmond and that if he did not do so they would shoot him. He replied that he was worn out and sick and could not go unless they would furnish him a horse. The then tore him violently away from his wife who had hold of him beging them to spare his life and shot him within ten steps of where she stood. He had a brother in your city and another a minister of the gospel in connection with the M. E. Church. I think living in Athens Co. Ohio. Capt. Hall also brought out with him a poor man and his family whose life was in jeopardy because he would not join the guerillas he has since coming in joined one of our companies and will be a valuable guide for our scouting parties in Webster. I have now six men in my charge as prisoners who have been connected with Downess and Spriggs Companies of guerillas and various other prisoners to the number of twenty. Some of them bad men I have no doubt but whether we can get the evidence of their true characters or not I am not yet able to say. The scouting party that was sent sent into Webster from here has not yet returned. Capt Hall deserves great credit for the manner in which he carried out my instructions.

Very Respectfully Yours
T. M. Harris Lt. Col. 10th Va

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Issue as requested
F. H. Pierpoint
10th Regt. Va Vols

Buckhannon June 10th 1862
Gov. F. H. Pierpoint,

Dear Sir,
I have just received the certificate of the election of J. M. Ewing as Captain of Company G. 10th Regt. he having received sixty five votes. You will please commission him accordingly.

Very Respectfully
Your obdt. servt.
T. M. Harris
Col. 10th Va.

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T. M. Harris
Buckhannon June 10th /62
Referred to H J Saml Adt Gel
H W Crosther
ADC
June 6th /62
J M Ewing
Elected Capt Co G 10th Regt Va Vols

Buckhanon June 11th 1862
H. J. Samuels
Adjt. Gen. Va.

Company K has just elected its officers as follows J. P. Kuykendall 1st Lieut. Elected Captain Thomas Hess elected 1st Lieut + Jeremiah H. Fluharty 2nd Lieut, all by a unanimous vote of the company.

You will please have the Governor commission them accordingly. Enclosed find certificate of Lieut Varner.

Very Respectfully
Your obdt. servt.
T. M. Harris
Col. 10th Va.

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Election in Co K
10th Regt Va Vols
Commission as elected 24th June 1862

Beverly July 3rd 1862
Gov. F. H. Pierpoint

Dear Sir,
I desire that Dr. Gans assistant surgeon of the 10th Va. should be commissioned surgeon.

You will please send him before the Examining Board and if he should be recommended by it commission him accordingly.

Very Respectfully
Your obdt servt
T. M. Harris
Col. 10th Va.

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Promote Dr Gans 1st Surgeon of 10 Va. Reg of 3 years vol
F. H. Pierpoint

Beverly July 3rd 1862
Gov. F. H. Pierpoint

Dear Sir,
In connection with the appointment of Dr. Gans as surgeon of the 10th Regt, I desire that Dr. Thomas Morton should be commissioned as assistant surgeon. He has been before your board of examiners and has their certificate which is on file in the Adjt. General's office. If this is sufficient you will oblige me by sending him his commission by Dr. Gans.

Very Respectfully
Your obdt. servt.
T. M. Harris
Col. 10th Va

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Commission Dr Thomas Morton assistant surgeon of the 3rd Va Cav and direct him to report to Maj McGee. In another note tell the Dr that I have been informed that he is addicted to intemperance and I have also had that reported contradicted but I shall expect him to remain a sober man etc
F H Pierpoint

Buckhannon Sept 8th 1862
H. J. Samuels
A. G. Va.

Dear Sir
I desire that 2nd Lieut James P Connolly of Co. C. 10th Va. should be promoted to the 1st Lieutenancy of said Co. vice Wm. C. Hebener resigned and that orderly Sergeant John H. Bailey should be commissioned 2nd Lieut. vice James P. Connolly promoted.

I desire that orderly Sergeant John L. Gould of Co E. 3rd Va. Vol. should be commissioned Captain of Co. B 10th Va. vice Capt. David Morgan resigned and that 2nd Lieut Lewis of Co. B 10th Va should be promoted to the 1st Lieutenancy of said company vice Lieut Chas. Morgan resigned and that orderly sergeant David J. Ezekiel of Co. G 10th Va should be commissioned 2nd Lieut. of Co. B vice Henry H. Lewis promoted. I desire also that you should send me duplicates of my commissions as Lt. Col. and as Col. and also duplicate of Lt. Col. Moses S. Hall's commission as the rebels got and destroyed or carried off all these commissions. I do not recollect the date of the two latter and neither of us had ever been qualified to them. Please attend to these commissions at once and forward them all to me.

Very Respectfully
Your obdt. servt.
T. M. Harris
Col. 10th Va.

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Officers in the 10th Regt Va Vols
Comsd 12th Sept /62
Commission as requested
F. H. Pierpoint

10th WV Infantry