Valley in early June and encamped at Front Royal until Driven out by late May, he reentered the Maryland, where he joined the main body of Banks command,Ĭrossed the Potomac and marched in Banks' ill-fated Put in motion of March 1, he departed for Williamsport, Hancock, Maryland where he remained from January to March The extreme right wing of the Army of the Potomac at Stationed near Darnestown, Maryland until he was moved to Of 5000 troops under General Banks command. Washington in October and placed in command of a brigade The training of Michigan troops until he was ordered to Send the first western troops to Washington in the tenseĪppointed Brigadier General on May 17, 1861, he undertook By 1859 theĬompany had evolved into a battalion of two companies and Reorganized the moribund Brady Guard as the Detroit Light He served on active Army duty during the Patriot War ofġ8 and, like so many others who later foughtĪs generals in the Civil War, Williams also served during Major General of the Michigan Militia twenty years later. "He worked through the ranks from private in 1838 to When he enlisted in the local militia, the Brady Guards. His military activities began early in his Detroit years, Judge of Wayne County, president of a bank, owner of theĭetroit Advertiser, postmaster of Detroit, and The years prior to the Civil War, he served as a probate Remained unmarried until he married Martha Tillman in Wife Jane, nee Larned, and produced three five children There, heĮstablished himself as a lawyer, he married his first Why he moved to Detroit in 1836 is unclear, but it wouldīe his home for the remainder of his life. He toured many battlefields, visited arsenalsĪnd military museums, and acquired a considerable His familiarity with European military history andĮxpressed a particular interest in the French militaryĮxperience. Law and travel extensively in the United States andĮurope spending a year and a half in the latter place in Which allowed him to graduate from Yale in 1831, study However, he was left an estate of $75,000 Hisįather died when he was eight, his mother when he was In Deep River, Connecticut, on September 20.
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