28th Anniversary Roster of Buckingham Post No. 12, G.A.R. (Norwalk)

Brigadier-General of \(iIumc'(.T> Sejiteinber 7. 1862. lie rcsi^^ncd Januarv 19, 1863, on account of phy>ical disability, resumed practice of law in Xew York City, and was elected as a Democrat to Congress, serving from December 4, 1865, to Marcb 3, 1867. In iSfnj he removed to South Xorwalk, where he continued the practice of hi> ])rofession. \\'hile declining ptiblic office, he was an active promoter of all public im- provements. General Ta\lor died in South Xorwalk, of pneimionia, Januarv [<). 18(^4. at the age of seventy-two. Ili> remain-- r<.->l in Riverside Cemcterv. Xorwalk. ]\1USHS AS1;L1\\' hill wa> born in. Sacarajtiia, .Maine, October <>, 1843. He was the son of Rev. Moses Hill and Charlotte lllslev McLellan Hill. He prepared for college at the lligh School in Xorwalk. where he had resided trom 1854, and entered Wesleyan L'niversit}- in the fall of i8f)0. lie was a brilliant stutlent, a splendid athlete and one of the leaders of his class. When the Rebellion broke out in '61. nio>t i'\ the class volunteered and tendered their services to the g(^vernment for a three months' enlistment, but on arriving at Hartford found that the\- would onl\- be accepted for a three gears' term. Hill and a few others accejjted the condition^ and enlisted as ])rivates in the 4th Connecticut Infantry. On October 4, i8()i. he was transferred to the 8th Connecticut Infantry as Sergeant-Major. Later he was made 1st Lieu- tenant of a Rhode Island liattery and assigned to Staff duty. In that caj)acity he participated in the Roanoke Island Expedition and personally haided down the Rebel tlag over Fort Fisher when the fort was ca])tured. Cpon the rec- ommendation of General John G. Parke, he was appointed Captain anil Com- missary of subsistence, and assigned to dtity as Depot Commissary at Ports- mouth. \'a., and later as Division Commissary of the 3d Divisiori, 18th Army Corps, serving on the StaiTs of General John Gibbon and ( leneral \\ . T. Smith at Bermuda-Hundred and in front of Petersburg, and later on the Staff of General E. O. C. Ord as Corps Commissary of the 24th Arm\' Corps. -After the stirrender of Lee's Army at Appomattox, he was transferred to the Military Division of the Gulf and made Inspecting Commissary and at- tached to the Staff of .Maior-( ieneral Phillip Sheridan. While in the performance of his dut\' in the Red River country, he con- tracted a >e\"ere cold on his lung--, from which he nex'er recoveredi. At the close of the war he was brevetted as Major and Commissary, for faithful service. Resigning, he at once began an heroic struggle to regain the strength which had been broken by the ex])osures of his army life, residing in the Xorthwest and traveling in Furo])e. lUil llie di->ea^e had made Un) much progress for a possible reco\ery and he returned to hi> home in Xorwalk to die. He passed away July i 1, 18(17 (two year.s after the war ended), at the age of twenty-three years and nine month>. 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