Soldier:  William Elwood Williams

Regiment:         174^th. OVI                    

Company:         A

Age:      18                  

Date Entering Service:  7/25/1864

Period of Service:  11 months 19 days

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Discharged 7/14/1865 at Columbus, Ohio by order of War Department

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee                                           12/4/1864

Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee                                     12/5/1864

Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina                                            3/7/1865

Other interesting information discovered:

William Elwood Williams, sometimes known as Elwood Williams, was born in Morrow County, Ohio on 2/14/1847. He married Ella Ruth May in Morrow County on 12/22/1870, two children were born of this union.  William and his family lived in the Cardington, Ohio area where he was a farmer and a stone mason. He collected an invalid’s pension on 7/23/1890, his wife collected a widow’s pension on 10/15/1914.

Date of Death:  10/10/1914                   Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:  Morrow County Veteran Services                Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery