WILLIAM HENRY RICHARDSON -- 118th INFANTRYSPENT MOST OF HIS SERVICE DRIVING WAGONS - In August 1862, a 5' 7" tallman with black eyes, brown hair and a dark complexion enlisted in the118th Infantry. His name was William Henry Richardson, a farmer, andthe son of Jonas Richardson and Hulda Olney in Chazy. He was personallyrecruited by Captain Levi S. Dominy for Company B.William started his 3-year adventure as private and was appointed to bea teamster. He served in that position until mid-1863 when he became illand was sent to hospital. After his recovery he returned to his companyand then was detached as a XXIV Corps Teamster with the Army of theJames from October 1864 to April 1865. Two months later, William wasmustered out at Richmond, VA, after 2 years, 10 months and three days inthe military.William returned home to his wife, Drusilla Fisher, his son, Francis,and his widowed father, his mother having died in 1855. He farmed forseveral years in Clinton County and then went to Lowell, MA. Finally, by1890, the family moved to Charlevoix County, northern Michigan on theeastern shores of the lake. He continued farming and died in 1902. Hewas buried in Norwood Lakeside Cemetery and Drusilla died in 1904 afterreceiving her Widows Pension for less than two years. Both sets of theirparents are buried in the Sciota Cemetery on the Miner Farm Road inSciota.
