Preston Williams

An unmarried 24 year old farmer, he enlisted at Pine Apple, AL on 26 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was wounded in the arm and knee in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. Acting Assistant Surgeon Tom Lee described it:

P. Williams wounded above the knee, not seriously ...

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #1 in Richmond, VA on 4 October , transferred to the 3rd Alabama Hospital there on the 17th, and furloughed home on 22 October for 40 days. He was appointed 2nd Corporal on 1 December 1862 but reduced again to Private on 1 February 1863 for continued absence, being on extended furlough.

He transferred to Company A of the 4th Alabama Cavalry and mustered with them at Murfreesboro, TN on 1 September 1863. He was with them on the Fort Donelson and Nashville Campaigns and was surrendered at Gainesville in May 1865.

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Pine Apple, Wilcox County, AL.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. The quote above from a letter Lee wrote Dr William Gully in Wilcox County from Winchester, VA on 12 October 1862; transcribed online by Sharman Burson Ramsey. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Luevene Langham (1844-1908) in August 1866 and they had 2 children.

12/12/1837 in SC

08/14/1909; Pine Apple, AL; burial in Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery, Pine Apple, AL