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Caddo Co. Oklahoma - Civil War 
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Williams, George Barnett - 
Company "D", 7th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers (Union)

George enrolled with his brother, William Anderson Williams, on 19 August 1861 in Company "D", 7th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers (Union) at Booneville, Owsley County, Kentucky. He volunteered to serve for three years or the duration of the war and mustered into service as a Private on 22 September 1861 at Camp Dick Robinson, Garrard County, Kentucky. George was honorably discharged on 5 October 1864 at Louisville, Kentucky. These extracts are from a letter from the Adjutant General Office, dated 22 January 1869.
George fought in several engagements during his service in the Civil War. At the battle of Vicksburg, a bullet clipped the hair above his ear. On or about 15 April 1862, at Cumberland Ford, Kentucky, he contracted typhoid and erysipelas resulting in total deafness in his left ear and partial deafness in his right ear. He was hospitalized at Cumberland Ford, Kentucky from 15 April 1862 to 15 May 1862.
While his regiment was encamped at Youngs Point, Louisiana, in the winter of 1863, George was detailed to unload boats and to dig in a canal. This heavy labor caused him to be ruptured which severely limited his ability to perform manual labor. He remained with his regiment until he was discharged with the rupture progressively getting worse to the point he was never able to properly do the work of a farmer. George also had a nasal catarrh.
Following the war (after 1870), George moved to St. Paul and then later to Boston, both in Madison County, Arkansas with his wife Clara Helen Hughes and their first two children who were born in Kentucky. They later had five more children, born in Arkansas.
George was very prominent in Arkansas, but in 1902 George moved to Waconda, Caddo County, Oklahoma.
He was a 32nd degree "Free Mason" in the Hopkinville Lodge of Kentucky in 1870 and also the Hinton, Oklahoma Lodge. George was also a Baptist.
George's first pension, number 775061, was awarded 27 December 1909 at Hinton, Oklahoma. He drew a pension from the Government until his death.
After his wife Clara died in 1910, George moved to Richland, Pasco County, Florida in October 1911. He homesteaded land there, but returned to Hinton, Oklahoma in 1913. He then traveled to Arkansas where he died of Influenza at the home of his son, John Crittenden Williams, in Pettigrew, Arkansas (near Boston). His son, John, returned George's body to Hinton, Oklahoma and had him buried next to his wife Clara.

Submitted by Dennis E. Moore (Great Grandson)