P. K. Williams

From Macon County, NC, he enlisted as Corporal, Company E, 2nd Georgia Infantry, date 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 field hospital on the Geeting farm 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 transferred 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 Pruett.1 Wound and hospital details from a list of Cases of Gunshot fractured femurs at Battle of Antietam by Surgeon Truman Squire, 89th New York Infantry and from the Patient List.2 His service from his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. There is a recent stone for him at Mt. Olivet. He's also seen as D.K. Williams.

c. 1834 in NC

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