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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Erastus Hills

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 21, he enlisted on 5 March 1861 in Natchez, MS and mustered as a Private in Company G, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 5 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the arm and back in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paid (for the period May - August 1862) on 20 October 1862 in Richmond, VA with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His wounding at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as Sgt. Hill. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

Date not known; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29765]

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