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Note: Mark Jennings of Johnson City Tenn.contributes:
Williams' oldest brother Royal fought for the north. He joined Company A of the 7th Kentucky Volunteer infantry on July 17, 1862 at Cumberland Ford, Kentucky (now Pineville, Bell County) Royal served through the Cumberland Gap campaign, as well as the unsuccessful assault on Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi. He fell ill during the campaign to take Vicksburg, before the Union troops actually got into ground action near Vicksburg, and was sent to a general hospital in St. Louis. He died there on April 3, 1863 of "chronic diarrhea" in the New House of Refuge Hospital. He is buried in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.
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