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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alexander Hillis

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22, from Burke County, he enlisted on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as A. Hill, dangerously wounded in the face. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

He married Jane Frances Kelly (1842-) in January 1861.

He was one of 5 Hillis in Company D of the 48th, including his brothers Andrew (d. June 1862), George (d. April 1862), and Henry (1842-1901).

Birth

c. 1840 in GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19623]

2 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 31793]

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