On 30 November, 2005, I received a message from Jayne Hyslop transmitting to me the content of a newspaper article that she had found on page 9 of the Syracuse Herald of Saturday, February 6, 1904:

Representative Knapp has introduced a bill to increase to $24 a month the pension of Alonzo Cooper of Oswego, late of Company I; Twelfth New York Cavalry.