Samuel Thomas Hill "Confederate War Private Company F - POW"

Samuel Thomas Hill was born in Alabama in October 1839 and died in Milam, Texas, on 3 November 1906. Census-based records place him in Pike County, Alabama, in 1860 and 1870, and in Brazos County, Texas, in 1900.

Samuel Thomas Hill was born in Alabama in October 1839. He was recorded in 1860 in the Western Division of Pike County, Alabama, where the residence post office was China Grove.

By 1870, Samuel was recorded at China Grove in Pike County, Alabama. The available record identifies his residence post office as China Grove.

In 1900, he was recorded in Justice Precinct 1, Brazos County, Texas. He died on 3 November 1906 in Milam, Texas.

His record carries the subtitle “Confederate War Private Company F - POW.” Family material also includes a history of the Thirty-seventh Alabama Infantry, but the supplied material does not include a service record that directly identifies Samuel Thomas Hill as a member of that regiment or documents his reported status as a private, prisoner of war, or member of Company F.

Historical context

The supplied family material includes a history of the Thirty-seventh Alabama Infantry from Confederate Military History, volume VIII, page 172. According to that account, the regiment was organized at Auburn in spring 1862 and served in Mississippi, at Vicksburg, in the Army of Tennessee, during the Georgia campaign, around Atlanta, at Spanish Fort, and at Bentonville. The account states that the regiment was captured with Vicksburg on 4 July 1863, later exchanged, and ultimately surrendered in North Carolina after consolidation with the Forty-second and Fifty-fourth Alabama. This is regiment-level context only; the supplied material does not directly connect Samuel Thomas Hill to these events.

Sources & research

@S14@: 1870 U.S. Census, China Grove, Pike, Alabama; Roll M593_37; page 285A; Family History Library Film 545536.

@S15@: 1860 U.S. Census, Western Division, Pike, Alabama; page 46; Family History Library Film 803021.

Confederate Military History, vol. VIII, p. 172: “The Thirty-seventh Alabama Infantry.”