Alpheus S. Williams
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Alpheus Starkey Williams was a lawyer, judge, journalist, U.S. congressman, and a Union general in the American Civil War.
Alpheus S. Williams
Alpheus S. Williams (center) and Generals Robinson, Baird, Barnum, and Davis ca. 1865
Battle of Antietam
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The Battle of Antietam, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Ro
Alpheus S. Williams
…Bull Run. Williams's division rejoined the Army of the Potomac as the 1st Division of the XII Corps and marched north in the Maryland Campaign to the Battle of Antietam. On the way, troops from the division found the famous Confederate "lost dispatch," Special Order 191, that revealed Gen. Robert E. Lee's plan for the…
Depiction of the fighting near Dunker Church by Thure de Thulstrup
Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, Army of the Potomac (USA)
Gen. Robert E. Lee, Army of Northern Virginia (CSA)
Dead soldiers near the Dunker Church