Ezekiel Williams Jr.
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Ezekiel Williams Jr. (1843 - aft. 1863)

Pvt. Ezekiel Williams Jr.
Born in Pennsylvania, United Statesmap
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died after after age 20 in South Carolina, United Statesmap
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Biography

US Black Heritage Project
Ezekiel Williams Jr. is a part of US Black heritage.

Ezekiel was born about 1844 in Pennsylvania.

Residences

  • 1850: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with his parents and siblings

Military Service and Death

Private in the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment, Company I. Enlisted on 26 April 1863 from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was 20 years old, single and working as a laborer when he enlisted. He was missing in action 18 July 1863 at Fort Wagner and he is presumed to have died while a prisoner of war.

Of Charleston Jail, Captain Samuel C. Timson of the 95th NY had this to say:

There were twenty-one negro soldiers, most of them belonging to Colonel Shaw's Fifty-fourth Mass. regiment of immortal memory, among the number. They were never to be exchanged, but were to be reduced to slavery. They were all that were left of the colored troops captured at Wagner. The rest were bayoneted and shot after they surrendered. Their rations were bread and water; still they would sing Union songs, pouring their melody through their prison bars for the entertainment of the Union officers in the prison and below.[1]

Census Race

  • 1850: Black

Projects

Sources

  1. Emilio, p. 415




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