Colonel Robert Williams remained in the Army after the war, serving during the Indian Wars. In July 1892, now a brigadier general, he was named adjutant general of the U.S. Army and retired in November1893.
Despite his prickly disposition, Williams won the heart of Adele Cutts Douglas, widow of Senator Stephen Douglas-- Abraham Lincoln's longtime rival, who had died in June 1861 after contracting typhoid fever.
She was a chestnut-haired beauty who came from an old Washington family. She became Douglas; second wife in 1856 and raised the senator's two sons from his first marriage.
Her family's Southern sympathies--- Rebel spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow was her aunt-- made her a popular capital hostess even after Douglas' death.
In 1866, Adele met and married Williams, later accompanying him to the Frontier, where she bore him six children. She died in 1899 in Washington, predeceasing her husband by two years.
--Old Secesh
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