--let
him alone.

In regard to religion, he writes this: "I am a Christian, _i. e._, a
believer in Christ and his teachings. I am not connected with any
denomination, but have a leaning to the Congregational. My father was of
that denomination in Scotland, the name for them there and in England
being Independents." Became a Kendall county man by adoption.

"I enlisted at Champaign, Ill., April 18, 1861, but when we went into camp
at Joliet that Company had four men above the maximum number, and the
Kendall county Company lacked two men of the minimum number. I and another
transferred ourselves from A to K, and were put on the muster roll as
having enlisted in Company K April 24, 1861. So you can put me down in
roster as having enlisted at Newark, Kendall county, Illinois, April 24,
1861."

Comrade Todd is badly broken in health. Right side partly paralyzed. He
says he "cannot write worth a continental." Is a shoemaker. Has worked at
that trade principally since the war, but has been otherwise employed and,
he writes, "I finally got in here." He receives from Uncle Sam at
Washington a regular remittance at the rate of six dollars a month. I
should think the old fellow could do a little better than that.

SAMUEL TRENTOR, Morris, Illinois.

April 24, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born at Moundsville, West Virginia. Nearly
nineteen years old when enlisted. Sam thought that with his long arms he
could do good work with a cavalry sabre, and did not re-enlist in the 20th
Regiment, but when discharged therefrom joined Captain Collins' Company of
the 4th Illinois Cavalry and served until the close of the war. Was shot
in the neck at Britton's Lane. Receives pension at rate of twelve dollars
a month for disabilities incurred in the service. Works for a living.
Writes thus: "I am not a democrat. My religion I have not yet."

WILLIAM VREELAND, Maurice, Iowa.

April, 1861-July 14, 1864. Born in Hudson county, N. J. Twenty-four years
old when enlisted. Receives pension at rate of eight dollars a month for
disability incurred in the service. Was a farmer for several years after
discharge, but the condition of his health forced him to abandon that
vocation. Is now editor and proprietor of the Maurice Free Press. "A
rock-ribbed republican and a Methodist. The two things go well together,
you know." How would prohibition and Methodism go? Think about it brother!

AMBROSE WALLACE.

Born in England. Enlisted in April, 1861. One day w