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The following letters have been received in reply to a cir- 

 cular letter sent out about the 1st of Jan., 1907, to all the old 

 comrades that we could g-et the address of. The letter requested 

 them to give a brief account of themselves §ince the war. Out 

 of about 50 sent out, 6 came back uncalled for, 38 answered and 

 the remainder failed to make any reply. 



J. H. Bradford, Monmouth, Illinois. 



In i-egard to my experience since the war, I hardly know 

 what to say. My plans were spoiled by ill health. I started to 

 school in Monmouth, Sept., 1865, but took typhoid fever, and had 

 to give up school. Have had very good health for the last 20 

 years. Am just as straight as when in the army and have chang- 

 ed very little in form. Weigh about 152 lbs. Don't know what 

 a rheumatic pain is, but the wound in my right thigh lets me know 

 when a change of weather is coming. Have not made a great 

 success financially. Was comfortably fixed at one time, in Kan. 

 but went into the Imported Stallion business in 1890, and the bot- 

 tom falling out of that business, left me stranded. I went into 

 the oil business at Beaumont, Texas, in 1902 and made $15,000 in 

 nine months, but have most of it tied up there yet. Have a lot 

 of oil leases in Kansas, but they are not likely to make me much 

 money, although I consider Kansas one of the greatest oil fields 

 In the United States at the present time. 



I was married in 1876, to Miss Carrie Holt, of Monmouth, 

 have 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls. The oldest boy was in the 

 Spanish war in the 6th 111. Reg., and when volunteers were being 



