James M. Williams
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Captain (date unknown).
Promotions:
Major
Lt Col
"A" Co. AL 21st Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel James M. Williams died on January 21, 1903, at the age of sixty-five, and is buried in an unmarked grave in Magnolia Cemetery only a few hundred feet from where he had served a generation earlier at Battery K in the Mobile defenses.
Additional information:
James Madison was the 2nd of 8 children born to John Hugh & Eleanor Frances (Anderson) Williams of Belmont Co., Ohio; and Homer (Webster City), Hamilton Co., Iowa.
John Hugh (father of James M.) arranged for James Madison, his 21 year old son (a trained watchmaker), to go to Augusta, Georgia for a year and work for a friend. James Madison departed for the deep South on July 21, 1858. James began with a salary of $800 a year which was later increased to $950 a year and he was able to send his Father part of this money for the family in Homer.
James served in the Civil War on the Confederate side, and 2 of his brothers, John Hugh & J. Parker served on the Union side.
He later moved to Mobile, Alabama to work. It was there he met Eliza Jane Rennison and on Dec. 13, 1860 they were married. By this time the Civil War was upon the nation. James was accepted into the Confederate ranks as a private on Oct. 11, 1861. By june of 1863 he had been promoted to Lt. Colonel. After the war he and Lizzie remained in Mobile. They had six children : George, Eleanor, Eugenia, Rennison Lee, Adelia, and Powell. For the remainder of his working career he was associated with the Mobile County Probate Court as a Deputy and a Clerk, He died Jan. 21, 1903 at the age of 65. The next day the Mobile Register carried this tribute : "James M. Williams who died yesterday was a courageous and ready soldier, a patriotic and earnest citizen and an honest man, a gentleman, in the fullest sense of the word. It would be well for the republic if every man were to mold his life to conform to high ideals that inspired our friend who has gone to the other world." More information about James M. Williams may be found in the book : "From That Terrible Field" edited by John Kent Folmar. It contains letters from Williams during the Civil War.
Source: Randy Eutsler
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Captain (date unknown).
Promotions:
Major
Lt Col
"A" Co. AL 21st Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel James M. Williams died on January 21, 1903, at the age of sixty-five, and is buried in an unmarked grave in Magnolia Cemetery only a few hundred feet from where he had served a generation earlier at Battery K in the Mobile defenses.
Additional information:
James Madison was the 2nd of 8 children born to John Hugh & Eleanor Frances (Anderson) Williams of Belmont Co., Ohio; and Homer (Webster City), Hamilton Co., Iowa.
John Hugh (father of James M.) arranged for James Madison, his 21 year old son (a trained watchmaker), to go to Augusta, Georgia for a year and work for a friend. James Madison departed for the deep South on July 21, 1858. James began with a salary of $800 a year which was later increased to $950 a year and he was able to send his Father part of this money for the family in Homer.
James served in the Civil War on the Confederate side, and 2 of his brothers, John Hugh & J. Parker served on the Union side.
He later moved to Mobile, Alabama to work. It was there he met Eliza Jane Rennison and on Dec. 13, 1860 they were married. By this time the Civil War was upon the nation. James was accepted into the Confederate ranks as a private on Oct. 11, 1861. By june of 1863 he had been promoted to Lt. Colonel. After the war he and Lizzie remained in Mobile. They had six children : George, Eleanor, Eugenia, Rennison Lee, Adelia, and Powell. For the remainder of his working career he was associated with the Mobile County Probate Court as a Deputy and a Clerk, He died Jan. 21, 1903 at the age of 65. The next day the Mobile Register carried this tribute : "James M. Williams who died yesterday was a courageous and ready soldier, a patriotic and earnest citizen and an honest man, a gentleman, in the fullest sense of the word. It would be well for the republic if every man were to mold his life to conform to high ideals that inspired our friend who has gone to the other world." More information about James M. Williams may be found in the book : "From That Terrible Field" edited by John Kent Folmar. It contains letters from Williams during the Civil War.
Source: Randy Eutsler
James M. Williams
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Captain (date unknown).
Promotions:
Major
Lt Col
"A" Co. AL 21st Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel James M. Williams died on January 21, 1903, at the age of sixty-five, and is buried in an unmarked grave in Magnolia Cemetery only a few hundred feet from where he had served a generation earlier at Battery K in the Mobile defenses.
Additional information:
James Madison was the 2nd of 8 children born to John Hugh & Eleanor Frances (Anderson) Williams of Belmont Co., Ohio; and Homer (Webster City), Hamilton Co., Iowa.
John Hugh (father of James M.) arranged for James Madison, his 21 year old son (a trained watchmaker), to go to Augusta, Georgia for a year and work for a friend. James Madison departed for the deep South on July 21, 1858. James began with a salary of $800 a year which was later increased to $950 a year and he was able to send his Father part of this money for the family in Homer.
James served in the Civil War on the Confederate side, and 2 of his brothers, John Hugh & J. Parker served on the Union side.
He later moved to Mobile, Alabama to work. It was there he met Eliza Jane Rennison and on Dec. 13, 1860 they were married. By this time the Civil War was upon the nation. James was accepted into the Confederate ranks as a private on Oct. 11, 1861. By june of 1863 he had been promoted to Lt. Colonel. After the war he and Lizzie remained in Mobile. They had six children : George, Eleanor, Eugenia, Rennison Lee, Adelia, and Powell. For the remainder of his working career he was associated with the Mobile County Probate Court as a Deputy and a Clerk, He died Jan. 21, 1903 at the age of 65. The next day the Mobile Register carried this tribute : "James M. Williams who died yesterday was a courageous and ready soldier, a patriotic and earnest citizen and an honest man, a gentleman, in the fullest sense of the word. It would be well for the republic if every man were to mold his life to conform to high ideals that inspired our friend who has gone to the other world." More information about James M. Williams may be found in the book : "From That Terrible Field" edited by John Kent Folmar. It contains letters from Williams during the Civil War.
Source: Randy Eutsler
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Captain (date unknown).
Promotions:
Major
Lt Col
"A" Co. AL 21st Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel James M. Williams died on January 21, 1903, at the age of sixty-five, and is buried in an unmarked grave in Magnolia Cemetery only a few hundred feet from where he had served a generation earlier at Battery K in the Mobile defenses.
Additional information:
James Madison was the 2nd of 8 children born to John Hugh & Eleanor Frances (Anderson) Williams of Belmont Co., Ohio; and Homer (Webster City), Hamilton Co., Iowa.
John Hugh (father of James M.) arranged for James Madison, his 21 year old son (a trained watchmaker), to go to Augusta, Georgia for a year and work for a friend. James Madison departed for the deep South on July 21, 1858. James began with a salary of $800 a year which was later increased to $950 a year and he was able to send his Father part of this money for the family in Homer.
James served in the Civil War on the Confederate side, and 2 of his brothers, John Hugh & J. Parker served on the Union side.
He later moved to Mobile, Alabama to work. It was there he met Eliza Jane Rennison and on Dec. 13, 1860 they were married. By this time the Civil War was upon the nation. James was accepted into the Confederate ranks as a private on Oct. 11, 1861. By june of 1863 he had been promoted to Lt. Colonel. After the war he and Lizzie remained in Mobile. They had six children : George, Eleanor, Eugenia, Rennison Lee, Adelia, and Powell. For the remainder of his working career he was associated with the Mobile County Probate Court as a Deputy and a Clerk, He died Jan. 21, 1903 at the age of 65. The next day the Mobile Register carried this tribute : "James M. Williams who died yesterday was a courageous and ready soldier, a patriotic and earnest citizen and an honest man, a gentleman, in the fullest sense of the word. It would be well for the republic if every man were to mold his life to conform to high ideals that inspired our friend who has gone to the other world." More information about James M. Williams may be found in the book : "From That Terrible Field" edited by John Kent Folmar. It contains letters from Williams during the Civil War.
Source: Randy Eutsler
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