Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-08

be elected by the men, thus securing them
the advantage of procuring competent Off
GERS.
CAMP DENNtsoN.
Appearances at this camp indicate d more
cheerful aspect. Squads Of volunteers .s,re
arriving daily for the different companies
and regiments now quartered there. During
this week large acquisition win be made
TO the number now encamped, which will
swell the total to about three thousand. The
camp is one of the finest in the Western coun-
try, and is well planned and laid cut.
COLONEL FoRD's REGIMENT.
This regiment is full, numbering one thou
sand and ten men. The following are its
officers:
Colonel, Thomas II. Ford.
Lieutenant Colonel, Z. H. SWinney.
Major, s. NJ. Hewitt.
Adiutant, 3. L. jackson.
Quarter-master, r. H. Bentley.
Company A-Captain, B. Lacey; First
Lieutenant, A. NJ. Cumbacker; Second Lieu
tenant, A. Morris.
Company B-Captaiu, VIM. A. Palmer,
First Lieutenant, A. B. Barrington; Second
Lieutenant, ]. B. Helpley.
Company C-Captain, j. B. Banning; First
Lieutenant, A. R. Raymond; Second Lieu
tenant, B. Church.
Company D-Captain, W. B. Boland; First
Lieutenant, ]. W. Mclaughlin; Second Lieu
tenant B. F. Greak.
Company E-Captain, NJ. W. Morden; First
Lieutenant, D. N. Stambough; Second Lieu
tenant F. H. Fickell.
Company F-Captaip, B. f. Potts; First
Lieutenant, @. Brant; Second Lieutenant,
n. Sinth.
Company G-Captain, W. D. Hamilton;
First Lieutenant, A. F. Spaulding; Second
Lieutenant, U. Westbrook.
Company H-Captain - Dyer; First Lieu
tenant -; Second Lieutenant, W. H, Ii.
Case.
Company I-Captain G. NJ. Baxter; First
Lieutenant. S. B. Breesei Second Lieutenant,
j. S. Van Martin.
Company K-Captain A. Stanley; First
Lieutenant, G. Nichols Second Lieutenant
George Jack.
Surgeon, J. NJ. Mowry.
SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.
Major Durbin Ward is recruiting rapidly
for this Regiment. They are quartered at
Camp Dennison, to which point recruits are
sent.
LEN. HARRIs's REGIMENT.
There are about six hundred men attached
to this regiment all uniformed. Recruits are
being daily mustered into its ranks, and we
hope soon to chronicle its completeness.
Two more companies from Steubenville will
be added to its ranks during this week.
ARRIVAL OF ARTILLERY.
Quite a number of the artillery promised
by Governor Dennison have arrived at Camp
Dennison, and are stationed on the west side
of the grounds. They are six and twelve
Founders, and are supplied with ammuni-
ton, and equipments, including quite a
number of horses.
OHIO REGIMENTS IN VIRGINIA.
Colonel Dunning, with a battalion of the
| Fifth, is at Buckhannon. The rest of the
regiment is scattered about.
The Ninth Regiment, Colonel McCook, i!
| at Bulltown.
| The Tenth, Colonel Lytle, is in the same
division, and quartered at Sutton.
The Wilstach Regiment is at Clarksburg
| where it arrived just in time to prevent al
| outbreak after the departure of General Rose
Grams. 1t will probably remain there fo
| some time.
GENERAL MITcHELL's PLAN.
The following is the mode of organization
| proposed by General Mitchell on THURSDAY
| night last, at Smith & Nixon's Hall, which
be wished kept out of the press. AS th
modas operandi has appeared in one of ou
city journals, we think we are bound nj
longer to withhold the same from our readers
i. All Home Guard troops TO be mustered
into the service of the United States for thre
years, or during the war.
Q. To be clothed, fed, armed, equipped
lodged, drilled and transported as othe
troops.
3. To be subject to duty for ten CONSECUTIVE
days in every thirty, during which time mel
and officers shall receive full pay.
4, To be subject to the call of the GoVernO
of Ohio for full duty, and by him to be turne
over, as other volunteers, to the control G
the General Government whenever in hi
opinion the necessity would warrant him i
drafting the State Militia into actual service
5. Whenever any full Company shall ap
ply to be placed upon full service they shaI
be accepted in preference to other applicants
To The Editors Of the Daily Press:
WANTED AN OFFICER" Under til
above heading observed, in your issue c
this days date, an article intimating that tn
city is at loss for a commander of the bat
terry recently forwarded hereb by the Governor
If such is the fact allow me to mentio
the name of Isaac Chancery Brown as on
we'll qualified for that or any other militar
position. Mr. Brown first saw service !
Florida, when quite young. During the wa
with Mexico he entered the service as a Lieu
tenant in the First Pennsylvania Volunteer
was at the siege of Vera Cruz, and the battl
of Cerro Gordo: after which, the regimen
being stationed at the Castle of Perote, b
was, upon application of Captain Taylo
transferred to Company A, Third Regimen
United States Artillery, and was with 'Tay
lOr's Battery" at the battles of Huamantl
and Atlixco, under General Lane. After r,
turning to Perote he was left in command
the company and the artillery of that pos
, Mr.. Brown is the son of the late Commt
dore Thomas Brown, U. s. ~, and is Il
only male survivor of the family, both of b
, brothers having lost their lives in the publ
service-One in the navy, the other in h
I army.
) He has been resident of this city or Il
surrounding neighborhood for the last eig
. years. A PHlLADELPHIAN,
SEPTEMBER 3, 1861.