1st Lieutenant Jonathan N. Williams

Jonathan N. Williams enlisted as a Private in Company A, 5th Georgia Infantry Regiment on August 15, 1861 and was discharged November 8, 1861. He was elected 1st Lieutenant in Company K, 40th Georgia Infantry Regiment on March 4, 1862 and resigned due to disability later in 1862. 

The 40th Georgia Infantry Regiment was organized during the fall of 1861 and raised its companies in Bartow, Calhoun, Gordon, Whitfield, Paulding and Haralson counties. It moved to Tennessee, then Mississippi, and East Louisiana. The 40th participated in the conflicts at Chickasaw Bayou and Champion's Hill and was part of the garrison surrendered at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. After being exchanged it was attached to General Stovall's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. It served on many battlefields from Chattanooga to Nashville, and ended the war in North Carolina on April 26, 1865.