HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY 63 They were also in the battle of Hartsville, Tennessee, December 7, 1862, and at that point Major Samuel Hill, elder brother of Major Ross Hill, of the regiment was captured. The battle of Stone River followed on the 1st of January, 1863, and later the regiment to which Major Hill belonged was at Triune, Tennessee, and at Shelbyville, Tennessee. The summer of 1863 was spent in guarding trains and keeping the Confed- erates from the Tennessee river. On the 20th and 21st of September, the battle of Chickamauga was fought—one of the most hotly contested engagements of the war, and the following winter was spent in eastern Tennessee, during which time many skirmishes occurred. On the 1st of April, 1864, Major Hill re-enlisted for the remainder of the war at Cleveland, Tennessee, and on the 9th of May of that year joined General Sherman in the Atlanta campaign. He participated in the battles of Buzzard’s Roost and Resaca, and before the fall of Atlanta Mc- Cook’s division to which he was attached lost about five hundred men. The regiment was then in October ordered to Indianapolis, where all were to be mustered out with the exception of those who had re-enlisted Octo— ber 4, 1864. At that time Mr. Hill received his commission as captain, assisted in reorganizing the regiment and was mustered in as senior cap- tain. In the winter of 1863 the division of the army to which he was attached succeeded in driving General Bragg out of Kentucky. After the battle of Nashville the cavalry corps rendezvoused near Waterloo Land- ing and on the 22d of March, 1865, started on Wilson's raid through Alabama Mississippi and Georgia, participating in the battles of Planters— ville, Selma Columbia and West Point, Georgia. In the last named engagement Captain Hill was shot through the right leg on the 16th of April,1865. As he lay on the ground he ordered his men to charge, for the military spirit was strong within him and his patriotism longed for victory, even while he was suffering. His wound was so serious that the leg had to be amputated below the knee. He had formerly been wounded in the right leg at Rosswell's cotton factory on the 2d of April, 1865, and two weeks later suffered its loss. In amputating the leg the bullet of April 2d was found. By order of Colonel O.S. Lagrange,command- ing the Second Brigade, he was cared for at the mayor s home at West Point Georgia, and in ten days after he had sustained his injury he joined his command at Macon, Georgia. In a brief time however, he was sent home with Major General Upton. When he had spent four weeks in the north he returned to Edgefield, Tennessee,where he was mustered out with the rank of major July 1865. His was as a splendid military record characterized by the utmost loyalty and faithfulness in the per— formance of the duties that devolved upon him as he followeded the old flag to victory in the south . Soon after his return home from the war Major Hill was married, on the 12th of September to Miss Mary Eaglesfield, who was born in Putnamville, Putnam county, Indiana, February 1846. They trav- eled life’s journey together for thirty-six years and were then separateth by the death of Mrs. Hill on the 11th of November, 1901. In their family were seven children, Margaret, Catherine, Roswell S., Jr., Cale S., Mary L., Helen B. and Myra M. Since his return from the war Major Hill has largely devoted his attention to merchandising and farming. On the 3d of October, 1872 he was elected treasurer of Clay county. Still higher political honors awaited him, in his election to the state treasureship on the 3d of October, 1880. vol. II—5