GDG- Gen. Alpheus Williams & BG George Greene

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Jack:  I couldn't agree with you more.  I have been interested in Williams ever since I started researching the 128th Pa at Antietam.  Williams does an incredible job taking over  the XII Corps after Mansfield is mortally wounded and with many of his troops being green (including the 128th).  It is evident to me that he was certainly passed over because of something other than competence, because he was more than capable.  

Paula

> 
> Dave Shultz and I have been discussing BG Williams's movements on 1 July in 
> the vicinity of Benner's and Wolf's Hill. Williams has always been a 
> favorite of mine, a brigadier who never received a MG commission (except a 
> brevet post-war) even though he had an exceptional combat record in the 
> Shenandoah, at most AOP battles in 1862-63, and in Sherman's army in 
> 1864-65. Usually passed over by West Pointers (he graduated from Yale), 
> another problem was that he was a Democrat in civilian life. 
>