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Oscar B. Kerlin

The O.B. Kerlin Bible is proving to be a font of information. As well as leading me to Cave Hill, it mentioned the obit of Oscar B. Kerlin

The Senate proceeded to consider the nominations of C. G. Harker, John F. Miller, C. C. Andrews, Guitar Kaemmerling, Cyrus Bussey, John W. Fuller, John T. Hogeboom, John Mendenhall, Henry L. Burnett, Edward R. Platt, Addison A. Hosmer, Charles B. Barlowe, George B. Wright, Algernon S. M. Morgan, Charles H. Veil, Thomas M. Deane, Randolph Monteith, Samuel Gilman, George H. Wallace, Selden A.


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Day, Stephen S. Harding, Almon Gage, Nehemiah H. Miller, Richard H. Lee, Regis de Trobriand, Marcus W. McCracken, Louis H. Pelouze, Dudley Chase, Samuel J. Davis, Miles W. Keogh, James W. Forsyth, Robert Des Anges, A. Sidney Alden, Russell Houston, John K. Cilley, John Parks, Amos M. Kellogg, Andrew Y. Carner, A. Patterson Smith, Amos S. Kimball, Alfred J. Lloyd, Andrew Van Bussum, James G. Payne, John V. Fury, Oscar B. Kerlin, N. M. Wardwell, Leroy R. Hawthorn, Angelo Crapo, Frank L. Hays, Freland D. Herbert, Charles T. Sherman, Nicholas L. Humphrey, James H. Buxton, William Irvin, George F. Pinkham, John Fahy, J. A. Crowell, Albert Mason, Edmond J. Thomas, M. D. Wickersham, Alexander Bircaccianti, D. W. H. Day, John W. Clark, Adoniram Austin, Alonzo Kingsbury, H. L. Thayer, Edward P. Graves, Jesse E. Willis, Alonzo S. Gear, Joseph F. Denniston, W. D. Chamberlain, John A. Cottman, Leo Rosenthal, John A. Lewis, Charles H. Parsons, Samuel Drury, David Waldo, Thomas P. Wilson, Jonathan S. Harvey, and Henry C. Lawrence; and

Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of the said persons, agreeably to their nominations respectively.

On motion by Mr. Ten Eyck,

Ordered, That the Secretary be directed to return to the President of the United States the nomination of “Colonel Joseph B. Carr, of the 2d New York Volunteers, to be brigadier-general in the Volunteer force, September 7, 1862,” with the request that the date of the said nomination may be made to correspond with that of the appointment of the nominee.

On motion by Mr. Fessenden,

Ordered, That the Secretary be directed to return to the President of the United States the nomination of “William Krebs, July 7, 1862,” “under the act approved May 20, 1862,” with the request that the date of the said nomination may be made to correspond with that of the appointment of the nominee.

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      • Captains.

      • Second Lieutenant Henry Jayne, of the Seventh Illinois Cavalry (for Major-General McClernand.
      • First Lieutenant Henry C. Robinett, of the First United States Infantry (for Major-General McClernand).
    • ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT.

    • Captain James W. Forsyth, of the Eighteenth United States Infantry, to be assistant adjutant-general with the rank of major.
    • Captain Robert Des Anges, of the Ninth Regiment United States Corps d’Afrique, to be assistant adjutant-general with the rank of major.
    • A. Sidney Alden, of Pennsylvania, to be assistant adjutant-general with the rank of captain.
    • JUDGE ADVOCATE’S DEPARTMENT.

    • Russell Houston, of Tennessee, to be judge-advocate with the rank of major (for the Eleventh Army Corps).
    • QUARTERMASTER’S DEPARTMENT.

      • To be assistant quartermasters with the rank of captain.

      • Lieutenant John K. Cilley, of the Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers.
      • John Parks, of New York.
      • George W. McLane, of Kansas.
      • Amos M. Kellogg, of Michigan.
      • Lieutenant Andrew Y. Carner, of the 134th New York Volunteers.
      • Private A. Patterson Smith, of the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteers.
      • Lieutenant Amos S. Kimball, of the — New York Volunteers.
      • Lieutenant Alfred J. Lloyd, of the Tenth Kansas Volunteers.
      • Andrew Van Bussum, of New Jersey.
      • Lieutenant James G. Payne, of the 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
      • John V. Furry, of New York.
    • SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT.

      • To be commissaries of subsistence with the rank of captain.

      • Oscar B. Kerlin, of Ohio.
      • N. M. Wardwell, of New York.
      • Leroy R. Hawthorne, of Kentucky.
      • Angelo Crapo, of New York.
    • MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

      • To be surgeons.

      • Assistant Surgeon Charles S. Frink, of the United States Volunteers.
      • Assistant Surgeon George A. Wheeler, of the United States Volunteers.
      • Assistant Surgeon Edwin Freeman, of the United States Volunteers.

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