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Kentucky Webster County } sct

John H. Burnpass says that he is a Citizen of Webster County that Dixon is the County seat of said County that he is well acquainted with John A Brooks late of Said Town — That Said Brooks is said now to be in the Territory of Colorado That Said Brooks has a wife and child now living in Dixon — That Brooks was a practising lawyer of the Webster Circuit Court — That he was a commissioned Lieutenant in the Regiment of Col A R Johnson of the Army of the so Called Confederate States during the year of 1862 or a part there of — That during the early part of the year 1863 he took the oath of allegiance Gave bond and was released by Col Foster commanding Post at Henderson That he retunred to his home in Dixon and behaved himself well and peaceabley during the time he remained & attended to his practice as a lawyer — but that during the Sumnmer of 1864 Some officers and soldiers of 52^nd Ky. Regiment passed through Dixon and with out any apparent cause threatened said Brooks life and ordered him to leave the Country. Which he did and in affiants estimation it was prudent and safe for him to do

There was at the time a great prejudice in the minds of the Federal soldiery against those who had been in the Rebel Army

J H Burnpass

Subscribed and sworn to by John H Burnpass before me the 24th day of June 1864

W. W. Gentry J P