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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Richard Dudley Hill

(1846 - 1912)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A "schoolboy" from Shelby County, TN, he enlisted in Griffin, GA on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 44th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in Maryland and mentioned by Brigadier General Doles as having "attracted, in an especial manner, the attention of [his] commander by [his] extraordinary daring."

The rest of the War

He was wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. By April 1864 he was disabled by a shell wound to his left foot and recommended for retirement. He was surrendered at Atlanta, GA on 13 May 1865. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States at Nashville, TN on 17 June and was released.

After the War

By about 1872 he was in Texas and in 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Panola County, TX.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 as Richard D Hill, online from fold3. The Maryland mention is from D H Hill's after-action report, as R. Dudley Hill. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/22/1846 in VA

Death

10/17/1912; in TX; burial in Woods Cemetery, Woods, TX

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 34025]

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