amputated for six weeks, by that time the bone was so diseased 

 it would not heal; so after three months, it was amputated the 

 second time. After returning- home from the army, he took a 

 course in a business college in Chicago, then came to Findlay, 

 Ohio, where his brother, William, lived and accepted a possi- 

 tion as bookeeper, for W. L. Davis & Co., in the retail and whole 

 sale grocery business. In 1868 he was compelled to undergo the 

 third amputation, which left only three inches below the knee. 

 In 1871 he bought an interest in the firm he worked for and in 

 same year was married to Miss Anna B. Horn, to this union were 

 born two sons and one daughter. For about six years before his 

 death, which occurred in 1904, he was not able to do much busi- 

 ness. 



Mrs. R. M. Dihel, West Chester, Iowa. 



After ray husband came home from the army, we lived on 

 a farm in Illinois, until 1868, when we moved to Washington 

 county, Iowa, where we lived until 1893, then we sold our farm 

 and moved to the town of Washington, Iowa, thinking rest would 

 do him good, but his health did not improve, so in the same year 

 we moved to Chetopa, Kansas, where, in July, 1905, he died. 



J. J. Dihel, Aledo, 111. 



After the war came home and went on a farm. Married 

 "the girl I left behind me," in 1867. Moved to Iowa in 1872, to 

 Chicago in l892 and back to Aledo in 1894, where I still live. 



Wm. M. Graham. Vinton, Iowa. 



After coming home from the war, I settled near Vinton, 

 and engaged in farming. I was married in 1869, to Miss Mary 

 Saintclair. We haye a family of three boys and four girls. I 

 resided on the farm until 1900, when my health failing 1 moved 

 to Walker. Linn county, Iowa, and remained there six years, not 

 engaged in any business, then returned to Vinton, where I have 

 since lived a retired life. 



Ed. Grow, Tacoma, Washington. 



I was a prisoner in Andersonville, during the latter part of 

 the war, and it was a year after I got home before T was good foi' 



