Robert William Hill

He was a 20 year old laborer from Donaldsonville when he enlisted in Company K, 8th Louisiana Infantry on 19 June 1861 at Camp Moore, LA. He was reported as absent without leave before August 1862 but "supposed to have been taken prisoner in the Valley [of Virginia], June 2, 1862."

He was severely wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862

with a gunshot penetrating wound of the chest ... [a] minie ball entered the right lung between the third and fourth ribs, going directly through the body.

He had been "very low and it was supposed for some time after the injury that he would die" but he was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 23 November 1862, by which time he was "progressing favorably." He was sent on to the Camden Street Hospital in Baltimore on the 28th and transferred to the Post Hospital at Ft. McHenry on 30 November. He was discharged from the hospital on 8 December for exchange and was formally exchanged at City Point, VA on 10 December 1862. By 13 August 1863 he was absent in Mobile on furlough and probably "[d]etailed to Alabama" thereafter.

In 1880 he lived with his in-laws in New Iberia, LA and worked at the Iberia (cottonseed) Oil Mill. He died at Camp Nicholls, the Confederate Soldier's Home in New Orleans.

His service from Booth.1. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Marie Celima Darby (1850-1882) in February 1880. He married again, Marie Adeline Keller (1865-1927) in May 1884, and they had four children: Celema Elodie, Albert Joseph, Harvey Francis, and Rena Martha.

03/1843 in KY

03/11/1896; New Orleans, LA; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, LA