William joins the infantry on his first enlistment. He gets measles and lung problems and is discharged. He goes home to Grant county and takes the first three masonic degrees. He gets a appointment to the cavlary for a second enlistment. I am working on a book and a class for a school in scotland that will use his journal and letters. He is discharged and becomes a sutler with his old company and the 117th Illonis infantry. He will leave this and join captain john c tobias in renting the Deputy farm near Helena Ark. He dies here in sept 1864. He marries mary Russell in July 1863 and is discharged shortly before. His son Richard was born in August.
It has taken a while to piece his story togeather.

carol scott-simard M.A.