WILLIAM G. STEPHENS

Rank and organization: Private, Chicago Mercantile Battery, Illinois Light Artillery.
Place and date: At Vicksburg, Mississippi, 22 May 1863.
Entered service at: Chicago, Illinois.
Birthplace: New York, N.Y.
Date of issue: 21 December 1894.

Citation reads: Carried with others by hand a cannon up to and fired it through an embrasure of the enemy’s works.