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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hilliard R. Green

(c. 1836 - 1897)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 31st Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Bainbridge, GA on 17 December 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 27th Georgia Infantry. The regiment was re-designated the 31st Georgia Infantry about April 1862. He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm, place not given, and in a Richmond, VA hospital in July. He was in a hospital in Winchester, VA from 14-19 August.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to about 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862 but was still absent, by then without leave, to at least August 1863, with no later record with his company. He was formally surrendered and paroled at Augusta, GA on 19 May 1865.

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. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1836 in GA

Death

01/02/1897; burial in Laurel Grove Cemetery North, Savannah, GA

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 34551]

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: #386 [AotW citation 34552]

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