William B. Williams

From Lowndes County, MS, he enlisted on 19 July 1861 at Columbus, MS as a Private in Captain Randle Blewett's Company (The Blewetts), later Company C, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 27 September and sent back to his Company on 29 October 1862. He was 2nd Sergeant by February 1863 when he was briefly detailed with enrolling officers, was elected 3rd Lieutenant on 12 May 1863, and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant about February 1864.

He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left leg at Spotsylvania Court House, VA, on 12 May 1864 and was in hospitals or on furlough to at least 21 March 1865, when he was admitted to a hospital in Meridian, MS. He saw a medical examining board in Dalton, GA on 11 April 1865, which found his Spottsylvania wound had caused necrosis of his fibula (rot of his lower leg bone) and he was again furloughed, to West Point, MS. He was paroled at Columbus, MS on 17 May 1865.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry.

c. 1842