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
Joseph K. Mansfield
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Joseph King Fenno Mansfield was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer. He served as a Union general in the American Civil War and was fatally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
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…divided army. The division was heavily engaged at Sharpsburg, once again up against Jackson on the Confederate left flank. The corps commander, Maj. Gen. Joseph K. Mansfield, was killed early at Antietam, and Williams assumed temporary command. The corps suffered 25% casualties in assaulting Jackson, and Brig. Gen. George…
Maj. Gen. Joseph K. Mansfield, photograph by Mathew Brady
Mansfield's house in Middletown, Connecticut, built by his father-in-law in 1810. Now the home of the Middlesex County Historical Society.
Monument to Joseph K. Mansfield, Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD, October 2011
In 1880, the $500 United States Note featured a portrait of General Mansfield, killed in the Battle of Antietam of the American Civil War.