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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Wilmington Hill

(? - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 26th Alabama Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died in Frederick, MD on 5 October 1862. Originally buried "on west side of and in the cemetery at Frederick." Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 as William Hill. Service basics from the Alabama Archives,2 which says he was killed outright on South Mountain. He is also listed among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD (source of his date of death), and may still be there. His stones at Mt. Olivet are on Findagrave.

Death

10/05/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1   Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010  [AotW citation 4738]