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G.H. Hill
(c. 1835 - ?)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 26, he enrolled on 19 August 1861 in Minersville, PA and mustered in as First Lieutenant of Company E, 55th Pennsylvania Infantry on 28 August in Harrisburg. He was detailed to the Signal Corps in the winter of 1861-62. He was noted for bravery at Fort Pulaski, GA in April.
On the Campaign
On 4 September 1862 he was at Minor's Hill, VA but by 10 September he was near Barnesville, MD on the march with Captain Fisher. On the 11th he was on South Mountain at General Sumner's headquarters, and on the 15th near Keedysville, sent to General Hooker. He was again with General Sumner at Antietam on 17 September. He and the General were on Bolivar Heights near Harpers Ferry on the 20th.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Captain on 1 December 1862 and was assigned to the Department of the South after May 1863.
He was promoted to Major of his regiment on 3 May 1865 and mustered out with them on 30 August 1865.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1835
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 28692]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 28693]
3 Brown, J. Willard, The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion, Boston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896, before pg. 256; pp. 253, 793 [AotW citation 28694]