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Nelson Grosvenor Williams

WILLIAMS, Nelson Grosvenor, soldier, born in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York, 4 Nay, 1823. He was educated at Utica academy, and spent one year at the United States military academy. At the beginning of the civil war he was appointed colonel of the 3d Iowa volunteers, and served in Missouri until March, 1862. He commanded the 1st brigade of the 4th division of the Army of the Tennessee at the battle of Shiloh, where a horse was killed under him, and was at the siege of Corinth. He was made brigadier-general on 29 November, 1862, but resigned soon afterward, owing to injuries received at Shiloh. In 1869 he entered the United States custom service in New York city.

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