ov. 20, 1861.
Captain, Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, Aug. 28, 1862. Brevet Major, U. S. Volunteers, Aug. 1, 1864. Brevet Lieut. Colonel, Colonel and Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865.
Mustered out, Oct. 26, 1866.
Died at Sudbury, Mass., Jan. 25, 1893.
Williams, Robert.
Born in Culpeper County, Va., Nov. 5, 1829.
Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1847, to July 1, 1851. Brevet Second Lieutenant, 1st U. S. Dragoons, July 1, 1851. Second Lieutenant, July 15, 1853. First Lieutenant, June 7, 1855, to May 7, 1861. Brevet Captain, staff, Assistant Adj. General, May 11, 1861; accepted, May 16, 1861. Assistant Adj. General of the department of Annapolis, June 9 to July 25, 1861, and of the department of the Shenandoah, July 25 to Oct. 5, 1861.
Captain, staff, Assistant Adj. General, Aug. 3, 1861.
Organizing regiment at Readville, Mass., Oct., 1861, to Jan., 1862.
Colonel, 1st Mass. Cavalry, Oct. 7, 1861.
In garrison at and operations about Hilton H