Captain Willard E Gleason
Kentucky Post, Monday, 9 January 1903, page 7
News has reached here that Captain W E Gleason, Quartermaster of
the Sixth Infantry at Ft Leavenworth Kansas, died at that place Jan 9. He was
ill for a long time with typhoid fever which caused his death.
Captain Gleason was a Second Lieutenant when the Sixth was stationed at Ft Thomas and was one of the most popular officers of the regiment. He had seen considerable service in earning his captaincy. He served through the Spanish American War, participating in the attack on San Juan Hill and the siege of Santiago. He went with his regiment to the Philippines, and was in a number of skirmished and battles there.
The illness which resulted in the Captain's death was of 10 weeks duration.
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Daily Express, San Antonio, Texas, Saturday, 10 January 1903, page 6
Leavenworth, Kan. Jan 9-Capt W E Gleason, regimental quartermaster of the Sixth Infantry, died at Fort Leavenworth today of pneumonia.