Detroit\'s Alpheus Starkey Williams never tired in service to his city or his country.
A steady hand in wartime and in peacetime, Williams was a Yale gr.
His generalship at Antietam made possible the Emancipation Proclamation, and Meade and Sherman relied on his unshakable leadership.
He was key to the Lost Order, the Battle of Gettysburg, the March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign.
A veteran of the Mexican-American War, he was a preeminent military figure in Michigan before the Civil War.
Detroit\'s Alpheus Starkey Williams never tired in service to his city or his country