General John Fonda 118^thIllinois ALS, 2PP, 4to, Feby 23, 1907 Los Angeles, CA. Describing Negro troops being over run by Confederates and the ensuing chase. Comes with a card outlining his military service.

Highland Park, Los Angeles, Cal., Feb23, 1907

Mrs. Lamatta A Dillman, Brooklyn, NY

Madam,

In Response to yours of Feb 15^th I have to say that it affords me great pleasure to comply with your request, and I herewith return your card with my signature and my present address and other matter that may interest you.

During the war I was in command of a cavalry force at Port Hudson, near that place was a mill owned and operated by a citizen from Brooklin named Noyes, near that mill was a stockade manned by negro troops for the protection of the mill. On Sunday morning May 15^th 1864 that stockade was attacked by Confederates and captured, among the prisoners taken was an old gentleman, also from Brooklin, within a short distance was a picket post composed of my men. I received information immediately and in a very short time was in pursuit with my whole command. We soon overtook them, killed some, captured some and retook the prisoners they had taken. Some time after I received a letter from a Brooklin lady informing me that the old gentleman was her father and expressing her gratitude to me. Your letter brings this incident to mind. I have lost the ladies name and would be pleased to learn it, but probably never will. Very Respectfully, John G. Fonda