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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert W. Hill

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 53rd Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer on his father's place at Forsyth, Monroe County, GA. He enlisted there as a Private in Company K, 53rd Georgia Infantry on 6 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father Darden Hill filed for his final pay in January 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records, US National Archives, online via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

1841; Monroe County, GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19672]

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