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Faces of the 48th: Sergeant Benevill Williams, Co. I

Benevill (sometimes spelled Benneville and sometimes called either Ben or Benney) Williams was born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, on December 2, 1841, and was thus nineteen years of age when civil war erupted in the spring of 1861. A sawyer from Ringtown who stood 5'8" in height, had brown eyes and auburn-colored hair, volunteered soon after the commencement of hostilities, enlisting as a pr

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“My Men Were Fighting Like
Tigers. Every Man Was a Hero”
John David Hoptak, The Battle of South Mountain

“The Enemy…Means to
Make Trouble in Maryland”
John David Hoptak, The Battle of South Mountain

“Dr. Joseph Webb, the regimental surgeon and brother of Hayes’s wife, Lucy, released the tourniquet and treated the wound while providing the colonel with some brandy and opium. Hayes was later taken by ambulance to Middletown, where in the weeks ahead he recuperated in the home of Jacob Rudy, cared for by Lucy, who had traveled from their Ohio home. With Hayes’s departure, Major James Comly assumed command of the 23rd Ohio.56”
John David Hoptak, The Battle of South Mountain



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