Williams, James M.
- Bio:
- At the Battle of Poison Spring, in April 1864 Colonel Williams led a foraging party from the Union base of operations at Camden out to gather corn that the Confederates had stored twenty miles away, on White Oak Creek. However, on the return to Camden, the Confederate forces attacked the wagon train and forced a retreat north into a marsh where Williams' convoy regrouped and fell back to Camden.
- Rank:
- Colonel