P. K. Williams

He enlisted as Private, Company E, 2nd Georgia Infantry and was appointed Corporal, dates not given.

He was mortally wounded by gunshot to the thigh, with compound fracture, and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at the Locust Spring Hospital near the battlefield, without amputation, and was doing well when transferred to the Camp "B" US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 5 January 1863. He was sent to General Hospital #1 in Frederick on 12 March but died there on 21 April 1863.

He was originally buried "on west side of [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick" and was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

Burial information from Pruett1. His wound and hospital information from a list of Locust Spring patients kept by Dr. Truman H Squire, online from the Chemung County Historical Society, and from the Patient List.2 Service details from his Compiled Service Records from Laura Elliot. There is a recent stone for him at Mt. Olivet. He's also seen as D.K. Williams.

04/21/1863; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD