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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles L. Hill

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, from Burr Oak, he enlsited in Company K, 7th Michigan Infantry on 5 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds at the Smoketown Hospital on 14 October 1862. He was originally buried on the field and reinterred in the new National Cemetery about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Record of Service.2

Birth

c. 1837

Death

10/17/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3642]

2 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915 [AotW citation 24708]

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