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         WILLIAMS, CHARLES 
        (Alias James W. Smith) 
        Age 70 
        b. 1845 - Utica, Oneida
        County, New York 
        d. 1/9/1908 - Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, Montana 
        
          CO. D. 22nd PENNSYLVANIA
          CAVALRY 
          
         
        Upper
        Hill Cemetery 
        Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, Montana 
        Find-a-Grave:  Charles Williams 
         
        
        
          
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               Charles Williams in the 
              U.S.,
              Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 
              1861-1865
              
               
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               Name:
              
               
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               Charles Williams 
              
               
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               Enlistment Age:
              
               
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               18 
              
               
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               Birth Date:
              
               
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               1845 
              
               
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               Birth Place:
              
               
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               Utica, New York 
              
               
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               Enlistment Date:
              
               
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               16 Jul 1863 
              
               
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               Enlistment Place:
              
               
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               Williamsburg, Pennsylvania 
              
               
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               Enlistment Rank:
              
               
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               Private 
              
               
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               Muster Date:
              
               
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               16 Jul 1863 
              
               
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               Muster Place:
              
               
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               Pennsylvania 
              
               
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               Muster Company:
              
               
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               D 
              
               
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               Muster Regiment:
              
               
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               22nd Cavalry 
              
               
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               Muster Regiment Type:
              
               
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               Cavalry 
              
               
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               Muster Information:
              
               
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               Enlisted 
              
               
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               Muster Out Date:
              
               
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               5 Feb 1864 
              
               
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               Muster Out Place:
              
               
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               Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 
              
               
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               Muster Out Information:
              
               
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               Mustered Out 
              
               
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               Side of War:
              
               
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               Union 
              
               
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               Survived War?:
              
               
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               Yes 
              
               
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               Death Date:
              
               
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               9 Jan 1908 
              
               
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               Death/Burial Place:
              
               
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               Anaconda, Montana 
              
               
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               Cemetery:
              
               
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               Upper Hill Cemetery 
              
               
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               Additional Notes:
              
               
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               Used alias: "James W. Smith" 
              
               
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               Title:
              
               
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               History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865;
              Research by Charles Beal 
              
               
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                 DEATHS
                AND FUNERALS  
                OF A DAY IN ANACONDA
                
                
                 
                 
                CHARLES
                WILLIAMS SUCCUMBS 
                TO PNEUMONIA AT ST. ANN’S
                
                 
                
                    Charles
                Williams, aged 70 years, died yesterday at St. Ann’s hospital
                after an illness of several months. 
                The immediate cause of death was pneumonia.  But
                little is known of the early history of Mr. Williams, except
                that he was a soldier in the civil war and had a splendid war
                record. He was a member of Lincoln post, G. A. R., of Butte and
                his remains will be cared for by the veterans.
                
                 
                  
                The body was removed from the hospital to the Tuttle
                undertaking establishment, where it will remain until the
                funeral arrangements are made. 
                About the only relative that is known is a son who is
                said to reside at Spokane and with whom the undertaker is
                endeavoring to get in communication. 
                Several telegrams were sent yesterday, but so far no
                reply has been received.
                
                 
                  
                If no word is received from the son or from some other
                relative the body will be taken charge of by the local veterans
                and given burial in the cemetery here.
                
                 
                The Anaconda Standard 
                Anaconda, Montana 
                1/10/1908  | 
             
           
         
          
          
        
          
            
              | The funeral of the
                late Charles Williams was held from the undertaking parlors of
                C. A. Tuttle this afternoon.  The burial was conducted by
                the local G. A. R. post, the old veterans acting as
                pallbearers.  The pallbearers were H. F. Ehret, Sparrow,
                Sweeney, English, King and Canovan.
               The
              Butte Miner 
              Butte, Montana 
              1/16/1908  | 
           
         
       
  
    
    
  
    
      
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           A GALLANT
          VETERAN  
          WAS WILLIAMS
          
           
          
          BUT HE DIED TRYING TO GET  
          HIS VETERAN’S PENSION
          
           
           HIS SON IS NOW IN THE CITY
          
           
           Further Details of Life of
          Anaconda 
          Civil War Hero
          
           
           SPECIAL TO THE INTER
          MOUNTAIN 
           Anaconda,
          Jan. 16.—Charles Williams, a son of the late Charles Williams, who
          was buried yesterday, arrived in the city last evening from Spokane,
          just four hours too late for the funeral, which was conducted by the
          members of the Grand Army of the Republic of this city.
          
           
            
          The young man received a telegram notifying him of his
          father’s death on his return from a run on the Northern Pacific
          railroad, where he is employed as a fireman, and the message was so
          long in reaching him that he thought that it was no use to wire the
          post in this city of the fact that he was coming, though he set out
          for Anaconda as quickly as he could make arrangements to do so.
          
           
            
          He gives further particulars as to the life of his father, who
          was born at Utica, N.Y.  He
          ran away from home at the age of 18 years, to enlist in the army, and
          was enrolled at Williamsburg, Pa., in Company D, of the Twenty-second
          Pennsylvania cavalry.  Fearing
          that his parents would take him out of the army, he enlisted under the
          name of James W. Smith, and it was by that name that he was discharged
          at Harrisburg in 1864.
          
           
            
          This was the reason that it became hard for him, when old age
          and helplessness approached, to get the customary aid from the
          government.  For twelve
          years he had been endeavoring to locate his captain and other comrades
          of the war and had only succeeded in doing so quite recently, and his
          case is still pending in the red tape files of the pension department.
          
           
            
          Williams was marshal at Sheridan, Wyo., for twenty-two years,
          and afterward was a deputy sheriff at Lewiston, Idaho. 
          His family consists of three children, Beatrice, a daughter
          living at Kingston, Idaho, and the two sons, Charles and Ben, both of
          whom live in Spokane.
          
           
  
        The
        Butte Daily Post 
        Butte, Montana 
        1/16/1908
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