Milton W. Adams

Born in 1893 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, Milton W. Adams graduated from Louisiana State Normal School (now Northwestern University) in 1913. He attended summer sessions at Louisiana State University in 1916 and 1917. He trained in the Infantry at Camp George McClellan (now Ft. McClellan) in Alabama, a mobilization training center established by the U.S. War Department in May 1917, where soldiers prepared for such critical U.S. military actions in France as the Meuse-Argonne offensive of June 1918. Adams served as a second lieutenant, but shortly before his scheduled promotion to first lieutenant he contracted the Spanish influenza and died of pneumonia on October 21, 1918.