William Ward, Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the Georgia Battalion, who was executed at the Goliad Massacre during the Texas Revolution.
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William George Ward (March 21, 1812 - July 6, 1882), was an English Roman Catholic theologian, whose career illustrates the development of religious opinion at a time of crisis in the history of English religious thought.
In 1839 Ward became editor of the British Critic, the organ of the Tractarian party, and he excited suspicion among the adherents of the party by his violent denunciations of the Church to which he still belonged.
From that period Ward and his associates worked undisguisedly for union with the Church of Rome, and in 1844 he published his Ideal of a Christian Church, in which he openly contended that the only hope for the Church of England lay in submission to the Church of Rome.
WilliamWard Burrows—born in South Carolina on 16 January 1758—was described by a contemporary, Washington Irving, as a "gentlemen of accomplished mind and polished manner." Burrows served with the state troops of South Carolina in the American Revolution, before he moved to Philadelphia.
William, Ward Burrows carried the pioneer construction unit—80 men and 2,000 tons of equipment —to Wake Island in January of 1941, departing Honolulu the day before Christmas of 1940 and arriving at its destination late in the afternoon of 9 January 1941.
WilliamWard Burrows, nevertheless, plowed along at five knots with PAB-7 in tow; she rendezvoused with Sonoma (AT-12) on 5 December and took on board an appendicitis patient from the Hawaii-bound tug for medical attention.
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