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Portrait of William H. Withington, 1861-1865. Entered service in company B, First Infantry, as Captain, April 29, 1861, at Jackson, for 3 months, age 26. Commissioned May 1, 1861. Mustered May 1, 1861. Wounded and taken prisoner at Bull Run, Va., July 21, 1861. Exchanged Jan. 10, 1862. Mustered out Jan. 31, 1862. Commissioned Colonel Seventeenth Infantry, at organization, Aug. 11, 1862. Mustered Aug. 21, 1862. Commanding First Brigade from Oct. 16 to Oct. 26, 1862. Commanding Second Brigade, First Division, Ninth Army Corps, Nov., 1862. Returned to regiment Dec. 2, 1862. Resigned and honorably discharged March 21, 1863. Brevet Brigadier General U. S. Volunteers March 13, 1865, for conspicuous gallantry at the battle of South Mountain, Md., Sept. 14, 1862. Died at Jackson, Mich., June 27, 1903. (Descriptive Roll Seventeenth Michigan Volunteers). |
