Hill, Clifton G. K/42Va
000/00/01 Prewar photographer with brother and another man; “had a car on wheels and traveled about through the country just before the war.” [42Va: 259]
839/08/29 Born Franklin County, Va., one of 10 children. Parents were Collin and Julia L. (McCrosky) Hill [42Va: 259]
862/08/09 Postwar 1913 history indicated he was wd., “shot in the chest by a spent ball at Cedar Mountain. Of fifty-two in the company who were in advance, all but twelve were killed and wounded in a terrific fight.” [42Va: 259]
862/08/29-862/08/30 Postwar 1913 history said he was “captured at Manassas Junction, or Second Bull Run. He was in command of an advanced squad in a railroad cut, helping a wounded comrade, when the enemy rushed them and captured him. During another charge they rushed over him, he pretending he had been killed, and although he was badly trampled he escaped. The following day he was [wd.] wounded by a piece of bomb-shell which struck his canteen and cut it in two; however, it did not so much as break the skin on him, merely shocking him and making his leg turn black its full length, the bruise and concussion being severe.” [42Va: 259]
862/09/17 Pvt. C.G. Hill, wd., "slightly in hip," Sharpsburg, Md. [42Va: 62, 862/10/11]. Wd. Sharpsburg [42Va: 17K5]. Postwar 1913 history said he was wounded at Antietam, Md., “where he was shot through the hip. He was carried off the field on a stretcher and narrowly escaped capture again.” [42Va: 259]
864/07/09 Wd. , left hand, and sent to hospital [42Va: 4, CG Hill]. Postwar 1913 history indicated he was wounded at Monocacy: “while in command of his company, he having gone to an exposed place for the purpose of reconnoitering and was returning when he was shot through the hand. Sharp shooters kept peppering away at him and he had to lay low to avoid them and soon he became weakened from the loss of blood. But he finally got his wound dressed and had one finger cut off. He refused to take ether, sitting quietly on a piece of timber while the surgeon operated. After his regiment was driven out, and not having enough ambulances to move all the wounded, he was left behind and captured. He was taken to the stockade in which his own regiment had camped for some time and finally escaped from it by a way previously used by the boys when they ‘slipped out’ during the night for the purpose in going to the town nearby ‘for fun’.” [42VA: 259]
865/00/00 Postwar took up farming for one season in Franklin Co., Va., “on the home farm.” [42Va: 259]
866/00/00 Postwar, in spring of 1866, came to Ladoga, Montgomery Co., Indiana with only $27; hired himself out for 17 months; saved his money, bought a farm, and then for 10 years rented a farm. [42Va: 259]
878/00/00 Postwar bought a farm in Montgomery Co. to which he moved; farm burned (1879) leaving him in debt $700; borrowed money, rebuilt farm, worked hard, prospered, eventually increased farm to 522 acres by 1913. Also bought and shipped livestock, making a specialty of breeding short-horns and was “among the leading and most substantial farmers of the county.” Also built carriages and buggies in Ladoga. Politically was a Democrat; was trustee of Clark Township, Montgomery Co., 1908 through 1913; married in 1868 and fathered five children; was a Mason and member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. [42Va: 259]
999/99/95 Postwar 1913 history indicated he “remained in service until the close of the war, and was always at the front except when he was wounded….and necessarily saw the hardest of fighting, but he never faltered.”