The preceding image, and the text that follows, are reproduced from (the report of the) Thirty-Third Annual Reunion of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, June 9th, 1902. p76

A distinguished officer, who served as an enlisted man with him for a portion of this time, has recently said that his troopers learned to love him, for he never subjected them to privation that he did not fully share himself.

Williams at once secured leave of absence from the Academy, went to Washington and sought and found him and offered such decided affront that a challenge followed immediately and was accepted.

A. P. Hill, later Lieutenant General in the Confederate Army, killed in the capture of Petersburgh, Va., early in April, 1865, was one of Williams' seconds; the name of the other is not recalled.

The choice of positions fell so that the latter faced the rising sun; dazzled by its rays, he fired just in advance of the word, and his bullet went crashing through Williams' hat, grazed his scalp and carried away a lock of his hair.

The General, a regular officer, to whom he reported with his command in South Carolina, in January, 1862, remarked, within the past few days of this writing, that the drill and discipline, appearance and spirit of the regiment were perfect, and that better was never seen in the permanent establishment.

In August, 1862, his regiment was transferred to the Army of the Potomac, and he served in command of it in operations in Central Virginia and in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam.

On July 5, 1892, he was appointed Adjutant General, and from that time discharged the duties at that office till November 5, 1893, when he was retired by operation of law, under the age limit.

Dignified and high-spirited, withal modest and absolutely just, courteous and chivalric, Memory places him in the list of Nature's noblemen.

He married on January 23, 1866 to Rose Adele Cutts, the widow of Stephen A. Douglas, and niece of Dolly Madison, considered one of the great beauties of the capital.