. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . le has held many honorary positions, in-volving labor and responsibility, gratuitously contributedfor more or less public service. Among these have beenpresident of the St. Paul Library Association two years,director St. Paul Chamber of Commerce nineteen years,department commander Grand Army of the Republicthree years, president Minnesota Editorial Associationtwo years, secretary Minnesota Soldiers Orphans Homeseven years, president Board of Trustees Minnesota Sol-diers Home six years, etc. He is a director in severalbus
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . le has held many honorary positions, in-volving labor and responsibility, gratuitously contributedfor more or less public service. Among these have beenpresident of the St. Paul Library Association two years,director St. Paul Chamber of Commerce nineteen years,department commander Grand Army of the Republicthree years, president Minnesota Editorial Associationtwo years, secretary Minnesota Soldiers Orphans Homeseven years, president Board of Trustees Minnesota Sol-diers Home six years, etc. He is a director in severalbusiness corporations, besides being president of theNorth St. Paul Land Company and other institutions ofthat prosperous suburban town. Captain Castle is also, at this writing, vice-president ofthe Society of the Army of the Tennessee, senior vice-commander of the Commandery of Minnesota MilitaryOrder of the Loyal Legion (General Wesley Merritt,U. S. A., commander), and first vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce. [88 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). CAPTAIN COLUMBUS L. WILLIAMS. Captain Columbus L. Williams was born in MorganCounty, Ohio, September 28, 1841. He is a sun of K. Williams, a prominent physician. The subject 1 >f this sketch was the first man in hisnative village to respond to the call of April 15, [861,forseventy-five thousand volunteers. He enlisted April 29,[861, in Company E, Seventeenth Ohio Volunteers, andwent with his regiment to West Virginia. When his regi-ment arrived at Clarksburg, West Virginia, he and a com-rade were detailed as scouts, and sent with importantmessages to the troops near Philippi, and were at thatbattle June 3, [861,—the first battle of the Civil was mustered out with his regiment August [6, [861,and enlisted August 23, 1861, in Company G, Thirty-firstRegiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was appointedsergeant. He was promoted to first sergeant February [9,1862, and to commissary sergeant of
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