Jeremiah Henry Johnston Williams

"Jere"
(1829 - 1912)
Home State: Alabama
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th Alabama Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
An engineer before the War, from Jackson, Alabama, he was commissioned Captain, Company B - the Railroad Guards - of the 9th Alabama Infantry on 23 May 1861. He was promoted to Major of the Regiment in April 1862 (to rank from October 1861) while at Yorktown, Virginia.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was senior officer present in the regiment in Maryland, and took command of the Brigade at Sharpsburg after Colonel Cumming was wounded early on 17 September. He was himself wounded in action there.

The remainder of the War:
He was in command of the regiment at Chancellorsville in May 1863. He resigned his commission sometime before September 1863.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Service information from the Alabama Archives1, with Brigade command sequence per R.K. Krick in The Antietam Campaign 2.

Birth Date: 03/28/1829 Birth State: AL
Death Date: 03/06/1912 Death Place: AL Burial Place: Williams Family Cemetery, Bridgeport, AL

Notes

1 State of Alabama, State Archives, and Dr. Edwin C. Bridges, director, and staff, Alabama Department of Archives & History, Published c.2000, first accessed 08 July 2005, <http://www.archives.state.al.us/index.html>, Source page: /civilwar/index.cfm [AotW citation 1208]

2 Gallagher, Gary W., Editor, The Antietam Campaign, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999, pp. 223 - on [AotW citation 1209]

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