While reading through more notes and old manuscripts I found the information on the unit in which James Leonidas Hill b. 1844 served the CSA. From the 1898 Recollections of Mrs. Jane Hallowell Hill (wife of James Monroe Hill and mother of James Leonidas Hill) she wrote: "My husband is a San Jacinto Veteran, and will be eighty years old on the thirteenth of this month, March. He and our two oldest sons were in the Confederate service, the older one being in General Forest's Cavalry. His son, Leonidas Edwin Hill, of this city, is our oldest grandson." Further, from an Appendix written Oct. 15, 1934, by Lucy Amanda Hill Jones (daughter of Mrs. Jane Hallowell Kerr Hill and James Monroe Hill), Lucy adds: "At the age of sixteen years James Leonidas Hill enlisted in the Civil War, serving under General Forest throughout the four years wherever duty called, but at no time within the borders of his own state (Texas). When about twenty-six years of age he was married to Annie Fordtran, daughter of Charles and Almeida Fordtran, and death claimed him in less than two years, leaving his widow and infant son, Leonidas Edwin Hill, now residing with his family in Seattle, Washington." (Quotes taken from the book "Heroes of Texas" pub. 1935, Houston, TX, edited by Mrs. Lucy Amanda Hill Jones) ______________________________________________________________ Get Your Free E-mail at http://www.prontomail.com