Bio: James B. Hill :Pittsfield, Merrimack Co, New Hampshire

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Submitted by: Rick Giirtman  rickman@worldpath.net
Date: March 17, 2001
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From the Book
'History of Pittsfield, N. H. in the Rebellion'
by H. L. Robinson, published 1893


JAMES B. HILL.

There died in this town a few years ago John B. Hill, who had been General
Scott's personal attendant during the Mexican war, and who had served during
the Rebellion in a Massachusetts regiment. He had one son, James B. Hill,
who was born in Lynn,Mass., July 5, 1844. His mother was Elsibeth Hobbs, a
Maine woman. When James was two years old his parents removed to Exeter,
N. H., and a few years later to Maine. When he was fifteen years old he came
to Pittsfield, and made his home with his uncle, Thomas Marshall. He married
Miss Susan Berry, of Barnstead or Strafford, by whom he had one child.

He enlisted in Company C, Eighteenth New Hampshire volunteers, and was
mustered into service September 19, 1864, and was soon after promoted to the
rank of corporal. In the winter following he was taken sick and sent to the
hospital. February, 1865, as soon as he was convalescent, he was made
ward-master of the Fifth Corps hospital, under the celebrated Dr. Fee. In
April, when the latter gentleman was transferred to the Wilmington (Del.)
hospital, he took Hill with him. Here he remained until his discharge, in
June, 1865. Like his father, he was naturally adapted to the care of the
sick.

At present Mr. Hill is in Pittsfield.