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Confederate (CSV)

Private

C. Edward Hill

(? - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From the Fairfield District, he enlisted as Private, Company B, 17th South Carolina Infantry on 1 January 1862 at Camp Lee in Charleston.

On the Campaign

He was captured (listed as missing) in action at Boonsboro (Turner's Gap) on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was held at Fort Delaware, sent to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 October and declared exchanged there on 10 November 1862. He died in Richmond, VA before December, cause and date not given.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records with his status at "Boonsboro" from Colonel McMaster's list for the 17th South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), also as Edward C. Hill; online from fold3.

Death

1862; Richmond, VA