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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Joseph B. Hilton

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 25 year old carpenter, he enlisted at Lancaster, SC on 1 March 1861 as a Sergeant in Company G of the First South Carolina Infantry for one year of state service. He was discharged on 1 March 1862 at Fort Moultrie, but re-enlisted at Lancaster on 28 April 1862 and mustered in Charleston on 5 September as 2nd Sergeant of Company D, First South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was in command of his company as senior man present at the start of the Maryland Campaign.

The rest of the War

He was appointed First Sergeant by August 1863 but was in Virginia hospitals with small pox from September 1863 to January 1864, and afterwards absent sick to at least February 1865. He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg, place not given, and was admitted to a hospital in Danville, VA on 5 April. He was furloughed on 9 April for 60 days with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Campaign detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

If I read his 1862 discharge certificate correctly, he was 6' 6 1/2" tall.

Birth

c. 1837; Lancaster District, SC

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 32004]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 75 [AotW citation 32005]

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