Enlisted from McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois on 13 August 1862; mustered in on 22 September 1862 at Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, Company A, 87th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; mustered out on December 4, 1863 at Camp Dennison Ohio on Surgeon's Certificate of Disability.
"Clinical Records of Malarial Disease...Ague with consumption supervening. -- Case 18. -- Private M. E. Williams, Co. A, 87th Ill. Vols.; age 26; admitted August 20, 1863. This man was taken with intermittent fever in November, 1862, and did no duty from that time. On admission he complained of pain in left subclavicular region, where there was dulness on percussion; his respiration was hurried and difficult, pulse frequent; he had hectic fever, night-sweats and colliquative diarrhoea. Cod liver oil, porter, quinine and aromatic sulphuric acid were employed in the treatment. Afterwards he improved somewhat while taking syrup of wild cherry. On November 11 he was transferred to Cincinnati for discharge. -- General Hospital, Quincy, Ill." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.
Enlisted from McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois on 13 August 1862; mustered in on 22 September 1862 at Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, Company A, 87th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; mustered out on December 4, 1863 at Camp Dennison Ohio on Surgeon's Certificate of Disability.
"Clinical Records of Malarial Disease...Ague with consumption supervening. -- Case 18. -- Private M. E. Williams, Co. A, 87th Ill. Vols.; age 26; admitted August 20, 1863. This man was taken with intermittent fever in November, 1862, and did no duty from that time. On admission he complained of pain in left subclavicular region, where there was dulness on percussion; his respiration was hurried and difficult, pulse frequent; he had hectic fever, night-sweats and colliquative diarrhoea. Cod liver oil, porter, quinine and aromatic sulphuric acid were employed in the treatment. Afterwards he improved somewhat while taking syrup of wild cherry. On November 11 he was transferred to Cincinnati for discharge. -- General Hospital, Quincy, Ill." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.
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