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He then served the heavy artillery during the capture of New Madrid, Missouri, capture of Island No. 10, Mississippi
River, and the siege and battle at Corinth, Mississippi. For the latter, he was brevetted
as major on Oct. 4, 1862, and Battery Williams at Corinth was named in his honor. He was in command of the
47th Illinois Volunteers during the Vicksburg Campaign and was wounded and disabled
during the Expedition by Yazoo Pass. He received
a brevet promotion
to lieutenant colonel
on July 4, 1863, for his service during the Siege
of Vicksburg. He then served as commissary of musters for the XVI Corps,
at Memphis, Tennessee from April 15, 1863, to Nov. 24, 1864,
and then of the Department of the Mississippi from June 27, 1865, to
July 2, 1866. He was promoted to major in the 6th Infantry after the Civil War on March 15, 1866. During Reconstruction, he was in command of the regiment at Charleston,
South Carolina. He also served as a sub-assistant commissioner in the Freedmen’s Bureau and commissary of the 2nd Military District covering the Carolinas. He was in command at Raleigh, North Carolina, in June-
August of 1868, Charleston, South Carolina, from August to December
of 1868, and then Savannah Georgia from December 1868 to Feb. 1869. Towards the end of his career, he was stationed at Fort Gibson in Indian Territory and
transferred to the 20th Infantry and then took command at Fort
Totten, in the Dakota Territory from June 30, 1869, to August 25, 1870. He was then on leave until retiring on December 15, 1870, due to disability. He died on April
2, 1889, at the age of 58. His death in 1889 was reported as
“probably in no small degree due to injuries sustained a quarter of
a century ago at Vicksburg.”
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