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the Nebraska Volunteer Infantry

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Pedigree
Last Edited: 17 Jun 2020

Military Service

  • Military Service*: William Drenning Adamson served with the Nebraska Volunteer Infantry on 21 April 1898 at North Platte, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, , enlisted with Company E, second regiment, Nebraska Volunteer Infantry in response to President McKinley's call for 200,000 volunteers to help "settle our little difficulty with Spain".1
  • Military Service: William Drenning Adamson served with the Nebraska Volunteer Infantry on 24 October 1898 at North Platte, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, , Company E was mustered out, and the boys returned to their homes and occupations, not altogether without casualties ... William D. Adamson came back on crutches being seriously wounded. It seems he was taking his blouse off a peg in a tent when a revolver dropped from a pocket of a comrade's garment and exploding sent a bullet through the calf of his leg."1

Citations

  1. [S49] Website Web Site online (www.) from A R Adamson's account in the Book North Platte and its Associations published in 1910 accessed via http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t9n306k47;view=1up;seq=6 [Nov 2014].