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Color Sergeant, 8th MO Inf, CSA

Jesse P. Williams, of Phelps Co., MO, enlisted as a Pvt, in Co D, in what would become the 8th MO Inf Regt, in Oregon or Shannon Co., MO, on 5 Aug 1862, for 3 yrs or the war. Appted color sergeant on 31 Oct 1862. Paroled at Alexandria, LA, on 7 June 1865.

According to the diary of Capt. Eathan A. Pinnell, Williams was relieved as color sergeant on 6 March 1865. No reason is provided for that action in the diary, and it does not appear in his CSR.