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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Hilliard

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a farmer, in 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings at Morrisville in Wake County, NC. He was conscripted at Raleigh, NC on 15 July 1862 and mustered on 1 August as a Private in Company G, First North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was left behind, ill, in Frederick, MD and captured there on 12 or 13 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick then sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore for exchange about 19 September. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 13 October and moved to the parole cam at Camp Lee there on 7 November. He was killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 2 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843; Wake County, NC

Death

05/02/1863; Chancellorsville, 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 34059]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #240 [AotW citation 34060]

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