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Surnames: Williams
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This article was in the Warsaw,Indiana Times-Union Sat. July 3, 1954 Centennial Edition.
It is accompanied by a picture of the gentleman. CIVIL WAR OFFICER-
Reuben Williams was a journalist at the time secession threatened to engulf the country,
and when fort Sumpter was fired upon he joined the Union Army in which he served 4 yrs. ON
april 19, 1861 the first company of Kosciusco county men was organized, and Williams was
appointed lieutenant of the outfit. On the evening of the defeat at the first battle of
Bull Run, his regiment was ordered to join the command of Gen. N. P. Banks at Harpers
Ferry, Va. where Willams was promoted to a captaincy. Captured by the confederate forces
under the command of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, Dec.11,1861, he was incarcerated in the
famous Libby prison at Richmond, Va. One of those included in an exchange of prisoners in
March, 1862, he returned to his own side, and upon the reorganization of his regiment
Capt.Willia!
ms was commissioned a Colonel. He held this rank until near the end of the war when he
was appointed brevet brigadier general of volunteers by the president of the United
States. He retired from active service at the end of the war.
Betty, Miami Co.,IN. researcher