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This is a portrait of Colonel James Monroe Williams. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was commissioned a captain and appointed commander of Company F, 5th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. In 1862, he resigned from the 5th Kansas to raise a regiment of black infantry, which became the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry. He became its colonel. In 1864, Williams assumed command of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, VII Corps and was brevetted brigadier general early in 1865. In 1866, after the Civil War, he entered the regular army as a captain in the 8th US Cavalry, serving as commander of Company I. He served with the 8th Cavalry based at Fort Whipple, Arizona, and Forts Selden and Bayard in New Mexico. He resigned in 1873 and became a rancher in Colorado. He was born in 1833 and died in 1907.
Creator: Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896
Date: Between 1861 and 1865
Item Number: 226617
Call Number: B Williams, James Monroe *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 226617
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1861-1869
Military - Service - Army - Cavalry
Military - Service - Army - Cavalry - 5th Kansas Calvary
Military - Service - Army - Infantry - 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry
Military - Wars - Civil War - Kansas Units - US Volunteers - 1st Kansas Colored Infantry
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Other States - Arizona
Places - Other States - Colorado
Places - Other States - New Mexico
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Photographs
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