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Co. A 10 Batt'n Georgia Infantry
Bunt Hill
Private/Musician
Cards filed: Hill, Whitmill B.
Card#: 45631581, 45631684, 4563189?, 45638906 At bottom of document:
See also 12" Ga Inf as Bunt Hill
First card:
Bunt Hill
Private - Capt. James D. Frederick's Co.
Age - 18
Appears on Company Muster Roll
Roll dated: Griffin Ga, Mch 14, 1862
Enrolled for duty: Mch 4, 1862
Where: Macon Co Ga
By Whom: James D. Frederick
Period: 3 years or the war
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Second Card:
Bunt Hill
Private - Co A (Macon Co Guards)
Appears on Company Muster Roll for March 4 to June 30 1862 Present/Musician
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Third Card:
W. B. Hill
Musc/Co A 10 Batt'n Georgia Infantry
Regimental Return - August 1862
Alterations since last return among the enlisted men Date - Aug 25, 186?
Place - Macon Ga
Remarks - Transferred to Co C 12 Regt Ga Vols
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Fourth Card:
Whitmill B. Hill
Musician Co A 10 Batt'n Georgia Infantry Appears on Company Muster Roll for
August 1862 Last Paid:
By Whom: Capt R. N. Brown
To what time: July 1, 186?
Remarks: Transferred to Co C 12 Reg Ga Vols Aug, 25, 1862
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Co C 12 Georgia Infantry
Private
Card #: 45649938, 45650024, 45650096, 45650161, 45650219, 45650277, 45650335 and
49008946.
At bottom of document is:
See also Whitmill B. Hill
10 Battn Ga Inf
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Bunt Hill
Private - Co C, 12 Reg't Georgia Infantry
Enlisted: Aug 31, 1862
Where: Macon Co Ga
By whom: J. T. Carson
Period: For and during the war
Bunt Hill was on the Company Muster Roll aug 31, 1862 - Sept, 1862 Wounded at
Sharpsburg, Sept. 17, 1862 was at Camp Winder, Richmond, Va
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He was on the Company Muster Roll Nov. to Dec 1862, shown as present.
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Bunt Hill was on the Co C, 12 Reg't Georgia Infantry Company Muster Roll as:
Present July and Aug 1863
Present Sept and Oct 1863
Appointed Musician Sept 1, 1863
Present Nov and Dec 1863
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B. Hill , Private, Co C, 12 Reg't Ga
Appears on a Register of Receiving
Wayside Hospital or General Hospital No 9 Richmond Va
Admitted: May 18, 1864
Disposition: Jackson
Date: May 19, 1864
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B. Hill
Co C 12 Reg't Ga
Jackson Hospital
Richmond, Va
Brigade: Dolds/Doles
Complaint: Amp 3 fingers, left hand / VS left hand / mini ball
Admitted: May 22, 1864
Transferred: May 27, 1864
Where: Columbia , S. C.
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B. Hill
Co C 12th Ga Vol
Receipt Roll
General Hospital No. 1, Col, S.C.
July 13, 1864
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Present on Company Muster Roll July and Aug 1864 Receipt Roll Dec 27, 1864
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bunt Hill
Pvt Co C 12 Regt Ga Inf
Appears on a list of Prisoners of War
Paroled: May 1 to 11, 1865 at various places in Virginia, West Virginia and
Maryland.
Date: May 1, 1865
By whom given: Simon Snyder
Where: Staunton Va
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HEAD QUARTERS ARMY OF THE SHENANDOAH,
OFFICE PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL
Winchester, VA., May 1st 1865.
I B. Hill of C 12th Ga Infantry C. S. Army, do hereby give this my Parole of
Honor, that I will not take up arms against the United States Government until I
am regularly exchanged. And that if I am permitted to remain at my home I will
conduct myself as a good and peaceable citizen, and will respect the laws in
force where I reside, and will do nothing to the detriment of, or in opposition
to the United States Government.
Bunt (his mark) Hill
DESCRIPTION
Age: 20
Height: 5' 10
Complexion: Dark
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 1 day of May 1865 Simon Snyder Provost
Marshal General Macon County
[This Whitmill Bunt Hill was the son of John Hill of Macon County. His Pension
Application will also be posted to this mailing list.]
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS
GENTLEMEN:
The undersigned respectfully represents, and solemnly swears, that he was
enlisted at Oglethorpe, Georgia on the 15 day of March 1862 In Captain Thos.
Carson's Company, of 12 Regiment from the State of Georgia, and served in said
Company; that while serving and in the legitimate discharge of duty he was on
the 6th day of May 1864, Williamsburg (?) VA wounded by a minnie ?
ball and that as a direct result of said wound, he is now unable to perform
manual labor; that he is not a pensioner of any other State or the United
States;that he has resided continuously the last twenty years in the STATE OF
FLORIDA, and respectfully makes this claim for the pension authorized by the Act
approved February 16th, 1885, and amended June 7th, 1887.
W. B. Hill applicant
Sworn and subscribed before me this 1st day of December 1887 ; Council A.
Bryan , Clerk Court Leon Co
P. O. Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla
WE SWEAR that Whitmill B. Hill, the above applicant is personally well known to
us, that we served with him in said Captain Thomas Carson's Company, and were
present with said Company on said 6th day of May 1864, and believe all the
statements made in above affidavit are true and occurred as represented.
W. A. Wicker
Slaughter (his mark) Hill Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23 day of
February 1888 F. T. G **** J. P
I CERTIFY that I have carefully examined the above applicant W. B Hill who is to
me personally well known to be the man above represented and find that he has
lost 1st and 2nd joint of third finger of left hand. Also what appears to have
been a severe wound of left hip from a rifle ball resulting in the loss of use
of said hand and use of left leg for prolong exertion or hard labor.
W J Green, M. D.
Surgeon Date Dec 1st, 1887
STATE OF FLORIDA, County of Wakulla
We, the Board of County Commissioners of said county, do certify that we have
carefully investigated the statements made in the within affidavits, and are
satisfied by evidence produced before us, that the within described applicant is
the veritable Whitmill B. Hill who enlisted and served in Captain Thomas
Carson's Company C Regiment , from the State of 12 Georgia, that he is, by
reason of wounds received in line of duty, while serving, unable to perform
manual labor, that he is a citizen of this county, has resided in this State
continuously for the last twenty years, and that he is not receiving a pension
from any other State, or from the United States.
Done at Crawfordville, the county site this 2nd day of April 1888
J. W. Adams
President of the Board of County Commissioners
G. R. Whaly
G. R*****
Attest: Geo R. Smith
Filed in the Adjutant General's Office Apr 7, 1888 Not allowed June 29, 1889
CLAIM FOR PENSION (# A03364)
By Mrs. Jane Hill
Wakulla County
Widow of W. B. Hill
of Fredericks Company
Doyles Ga Regiment
FILED IN EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
July 16, 1903
APPROVED
July 20, 1903
C. H. Duk????
$120.00
Pay from July 16, 1903 at rate of $96.00 per annum
WIDOW'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
STATE OF FLORIDA
Wakulla County
On this 27th day of June 1903 personally appeared before me a Clerk Circuit
Court in and for said county and State Mrs. Jane Hill aged 59 years who , being
by me duly sworn according to law, makes the following declaration in order to
claim the pension provided by Act of the Legislature, approved June 6, 1903, for
indigent widows of deceased and aged Confederate soldiers and
sailors: I am the lawful widow of William B. Hill who enlisted March 1861 in
Captain Jas D. Frederick Company A Doyles Regiment of the State of Ga and who
while in actual service and in the line of duty as Private was on the 9"
day of May, 1864 at Wilderness in the State of Va___________________ that I was
legally married to said soldier prior to the first day of January 1885 at
___________in the State of Florida; that I have been a bona fide resident of the
State of Florida continuously since the day of January, A. D. 1890; that I do
not own property, real and personal, to the value of $800 in this or !
any other State, and am not otherwise enabled or in position to earn a
livelihood, and have no income from any source sufficient for a livelihood; and
that I have not purposely disposed of my property for the purpose of availing
myself of the provisions of this Act.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of June 1903.
Mrs. Jane Hill
J. M Towles (?) Woodville Fla
Clerk Circuit Court Wakulla County
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WIDOW'S PENSION CLAIM
UNDER THE ACT OF 1909
FORM A
STATE OF FLORIDA
County of Leon
On this 27th day of July A.D. One Thousand Nine Hundred and Nine, personally
appeared before me a Clerk Circuit Court in and for the County and State
aforesaid, Elizabeth Jane Hill a resident of Tallahassee County of Leon State of
Florida, who being duly sworn according to law, makes the following declaration
in order to obtain a pension under the provision of Chapter 5885, Laws of
Florida, approved June 7, 1909.
That she is the widow of W. B. Hill who enlisted under the name of W. B.
Hill on the 15 day of March , 1862, in company Carson's 12th Regiment of the
State of Georgia and who was honorably discharged at May 6th 1864 on account of
wounds.
That she was lawfully married to the said W. B. Hill under the name of Eliza
Jane Levy in the County of Leon, State of Florida on or about______ day of
1866 and that she was not divorced from him and that she has not remarried since
his death, which occurred on the 28th day of August, 1900, in the County of
Leon, State of Florida.
That she is a resident of Leon County, Florida, and has continuously resided in
the State of Florida since the____ of __all her life.
That she does not own property, including real estate, personal property,
mortgages or other collateral securities, stocks or bonds in this or any other
State to exceed in value the sum of Five Thousand Dollars.
That the following is a true and correct statement of all property owned by me
in this or any other State:
Real estate, located at 80 acres Waukulla and 40 acres in Leon County Fla =
120 $ 360.00
Personal property NONE
Cattle, horses and other stock NONE
Stocks NONE
Bonds NONE
Mortgages, notes and other securities NONE
Total $ 360.00
That she has heretofore been granted a pension from the State of Florida under
Certificate No. 2020. That she is not a pensioner of any other State.
That her Postoffice address is Tallahassee County of Leon, State of Florida.
Eliza Jane Hill (signed her name)
Attest:
(1) J. C. Barnett
(2) N. E. Bassett
Sworn and subscribed before me this 27th day of July A. D. 1909; and I hereby
certify that the above declaration, etc., were fully made known and explained to
the applicant before swearing; and that I have no interest, direct of indirect,
in the prosecution of this claim.
Henry T. Fellkell
Clerk Circuit Court
Form B
STATE OF FLORIDA
County of Leon
We, the undersigned citizens of Leon County, State of Florida, do hereby certify
that we personally know Eliza Jane Hill, who is an applicant for a pension under
the Laws of Florida, and that from our own personal knowledge, and from the best
information available, we believe that the applicant does not own property to
exceed in value the sum of $ 5,000, and that the statements made by her relative
to the value of her property are true and correct.
W. A. DeMilly (?)
Wm. Olhuis (?) Sworn and subscribed before me this 27th day of July 1909
Henry T. Fellkell
Clerk Circuit Court This application was filed in the Pension Department on Aug
17 1909 and was approved Sep 10 1909 at the rate of $ 120 per annum.