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No biography exists
for Williams in the National
Archives. Below is my biography. Entries in blue are references
and my additions
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Charles M. Williams has not been
found in the 1860 Census. At the start of the war, he enlisted in
the 14th Mississippi Infantry Regiment at Corinth, Mississippi,
having travelled 100 miles to join up (which distance would almost
exactly cover travel from either Memphis or Decatur). When he was
appointed an officer, he was listed as from Tennessee. Since he was
appointed a Quartermaster Captain and twice recommended for
promotion to Major, since he supervised the repair of railroad
bridges, and since he was in charge of railroad transportation, it
seems likely that he was an employee of a railroad before the war.
After the war he was a merchant and a merchant of heavy machinery. |
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According to his enlistment
record, Williams was 25 years old in 1861. He
married Mary E. Bush in April, 1868 in Mississippi. Charles died in
February, 1903 in Greenville, Miss. |
| May 25, 1861 |
Mustered in to
Company K of 14th Mississippi Volunteers (Capt. J. W. Benoit's
Company) at Corinth, Miss. His company was stationed at Bowling
Green, Ky. until the end of 1861, when it was transferred to
Clinton, Miss. (ten miles west of Jackson) where it remained until
his detachment.
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| April 21, 1862 |
Recommended for
position of Captain and AQM
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| September 22, 1862 |
Transferred upon
appointment to Quartermaster's Department
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| September 14, 1863 |
Reported his status
as Post QM to QM General, from Gainesville, Ala.
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| October 16, 1863 |
Recommended for
promotion to Major
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| February 26, 1864 |
Ordered to report
for duty to Whitfield
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| March 7, 1864 |
Asked QMG to order a
QM to issue what Whitfield calls for to repair Mobile & Ohio RR
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| April 23, 1864 |
Looked for a book
keeper
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| Whitfield instructed
regarding Mississippi Central RR repair
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| April 25, 1864 |
Wanted his funds sent
by express
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| May 6, 1864 |
Ordered to Meridian
by Whitfield
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| July 10, 1864 |
Ordered by Whitfield
to take his office duties
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| July 22, 1864 |
Gave reply to
Inspecting Officer
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| August 15, 1864 |
Whitfield asked Sims
to secure Williams' permanent assignment to Whitfield
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| August 21, 1864 |
Reported to QMG that
per orders he was about to leave for duty with a cavalry regiment
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| September 10, 1864 |
Ordered to return to
Whitfield as his assistant
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| October 29, 1864 |
Reported conscript
age of detailed man employed by him
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| November 19, 1864 |
Ordered to send
supplies by passenger train
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| December 4, 1864 |
Recommended for
promotion to Major
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| December 15, 1864 |
Ordered to hold
trains sufficient to remove stores from Meridian and Enterprise
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| December 21, 1864 |
Whitfield noted that
Private S. C. Lewis is assigned to Williams
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| December 23, 1864 |
Ordered to not
interfere with salt shipments
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December 30, 1864 |
"Do not send cars to
remove anything from Columbus"
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| Ordered to repair
Mobile & Ohio RR north of West Point
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| January 20, 1865 |
Ordered to move a
body of troops
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| February 25, 1865 |
Given hands to
repair a RR; called Superintendent of RR Transportation
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| March 17, 1865 |
Ordered to prepare
for movement of prisoners
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| March 22, 1865 |
Given orders
regarding Train Guards
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| April 6, 1865 |
Release one of the
two trains being held
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| April 11, 1865 |
Discusses
transportation plans west of Mobile
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| May 9, 1865 |
Paroled at Meridian,
Miss.
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