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Confederate (CSA)

Private

John W. Hill

(c. 1845 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Age 16, he enlisted in Bowdon, GA on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA for excahnge on 2 October and was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 14 October. He was furloughed home to 10 November 1862. He was was againn on sick furlough by April 1864 after which he was listed as absent without leave. He did not return to his unit.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the roster appended to Hugh W. Barrow's Private James R. Barrow and Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry (1996) [pdf].

Birth

c. 1845

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 33804]

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