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Confederate Veteran mag., Feb., 1906, page 82.
 
JAMES WALTER HILL was born in 1842 in Colleton Co., S.C. While at Furman University he joined Garvin's Artillery company and served throughout the war. Death came to him at his home in Greenwood, S.C., November 14, 1905. He is survived by his wife and several children.
  
It is said that Garvin's guns were hot after LEE had surrendered and Comrade HILL is supposed to have fired the last shot from this famous battery.

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