Richard J. Williams

About age 20, he mustered into service as Private, Company B, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry and he was appointed 5th Sergeant, dates not known.

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He's not found in Bates' History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Pennsylvania Adjutant-General's Veterans' Card File, or Parker's History of the 51st regiment of P.V. and V.V.. His name is among those listed as killed on the south side of the regiment's monument near the Burnside Bridge on the battlefield (as having been previously omitted from the north face). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

The two monuments on the battlefield of Antietam to the 51st Pennsylvania Infantry are online from Steve A. Hawks on Stone Sentinels.

c. 1841

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Easton Cemetery, Easton, PA