Williams, Charles B.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 21, credited to Clarendon, VT Unit(s): 5th US ARTY Service: enl, Buffalo, NY, 8/14/62, Pvt, Btry G, 5th US ARTY, d/dis, 8/1/63, Port Hudson, LA See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 1842, Clarendon, VT Death: 08/01/1863 Cenotaph: North Orwell Cemetery, Orwell, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan Findagrave Memorial #: 132705416 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, father Stephen, 11/27/1868 Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: Gravestone says died 8/12/1863, but at odds with obituary and US Army Register of Enlistments - "Died Aug. 1/63 of Disease at Port Hudson, La., a Pvt." DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Obituary
WILLIAMS - At Port Hudson, Miss. , Aug. 1, 1863, after some weeks illness, from debility and exhaustion, Charles B. Williams, only remaining child of Rev. Stephen Williams, of Orwell, Vt. , aged 21 years. He was a member of Company G, 5th U. S. Artillery.
Source: Rutland Herald, August 27, 1863
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.