Indian War Related Cover And Wonderful Content

Just got this in the mail today. I found it very interesting as it related to the Indian War with a Mary and Monroe Cole and a John Jones correspondence and neat letter.

I have retyped the letter as best I can, it is below the scanned in copy.

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Feb. 3, 1903

Mr. Monroe Cole, ________, White Co. Illinois

Dear Old friend, I do assure you that I would like to see you again we are getting old now and will soon be gone from here. I have not been able to do any work for a long time in fact--not able to do but little since I was discharged at Fort ______ Bussele, Wyoming Territory on the 16th day of June 1874. I write this to you to see if you can _____- me being in the Hospital about a month and about---two months before I was discharged there at Fort ________ if you will recollect I had the phenomena ____ Mountain Fever. I want you to study and recollect anything about it if you can recollect it and will make a statement of it on the Enclosed _______ and return it to me at once. I do assure you that I will be under many obligations to you. I kept that butcher knife you gave me about five years. I have thought of you a many time since I saw you.
I want you to write and tell me how you are getting along and what you are doing give me a little history of yourself since I saw you.
Ever yours friend,
John C. Jones

Interesting piece of history.

Quite often, the contents can be just as interesting as the covers themselves.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Nice cover, ilovelabbies - thanks for showing it. Some of the fill ins:

Mr. Monroe Cole, Gossette (spelling is "Gossett", White Co. Illinois

Fort ______ Bussele

- This is Fort DA Russell in Wyoming Territory

you can _____- me

... recollect me ...

- this is "pneumonia", and the word following looks like "are" but I think meaning is "or"

Enclosed _______

is "enclosed blank"
Hope this helps.

I'm not sure I understand the connection between the three documents scanned as they are spanning nearly 30 years in time. The cover is postmarked 1932; the typewritten letter dated 1916, some 16 years earlier; and the handwritten letter dated to 1903, some 13 years before that.

I do understand that the parties were trying to gather information together to qualify for a pension, but were all of these documents included in the 1932 postmarked cover?

nubuckeye, thanks for helping me fill in some of the blanks on the letter

wt1, this is the way everything was sent to me, maybe whoever owned the contents were just trying to keep everything in one envelope. I am not sure.

Interesting! I was also trying to decipher your letter but looks like I was beat to the punch!

The writer of that 1903 handwritten letter, John C. Jones of Madison Co., Kentucky, was actually a farmer in the town of Foxtown according to the 1900 US Census. He was born in 1843, meaning that he was 60 years old at the time the letter was written:

Thanks wt1. It is appreciated as always!

By reading the letter, I take it these guys might have became buddies in the Indian War.