. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . lliam S. served in everycommissioned grade in his company (D), also as adjutantand major of the regiment. His company was selected to serve as the head-quar-ters guard of Major-General David Hunter, commandingthe Department of the South. A letter from GeneralHunter to the Secretary of War, written April 25, 1862,recommending Diller for a commission in the regularservice, says: This recommendation is based exclu-sively on the ground of merit,—-Captain Diller command-ing the company on guard at my head-quarters, andhaving
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . lliam S. served in everycommissioned grade in his company (D), also as adjutantand major of the regiment. His company was selected to serve as the head-quar-ters guard of Major-General David Hunter, commandingthe Department of the South. A letter from GeneralHunter to the Secretary of War, written April 25, 1862,recommending Diller for a commission in the regularservice, says: This recommendation is based exclu-sively on the ground of merit,—-Captain Diller command-ing the company on guard at my head-quarters, andhaving attracted my observation by the admirable dis-cipline of his men and his zeal in making them pro-ficient in every detail of soldiership. I think, having hadthe means of observing Captain Diller very narrowly,that few better appointments could be made; and theadmirable condition of the whole regiment to which he-belongs certainly deserves some acknowledgment. Captain Diller declined this flattering offer. To leavehis company for any reason seemed like desertion of his. comrades who had cast their lot with him. His companysubsequently served as the head-quarters guard of Major-General Q. A. Gillmore. I le participated with his company and regiment in thefollowing engagements: Fort Pulaski, April 10 and 11,1862; Secessionville, June 16; Pocotaligo, October 22;Morris Island, July 10, 1863 ; two assaults of Fort Wag-ner, July 11 and 18; siege of Forts Wagner and Sum-ter, August and September ; Chesterfield Heights, May7, 1864; Drurys Bluff, May 16; Cold Harbor, June Ito 3; Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, June 16;siege of Petersburg from June 23 to August 12; mineexplosion, June 30; and Deep Bottom, August 14 and 16. At the second Deep Bottom fight Major Diller re-ceived a sunstroke which nearly proved fatal. Until thishe had never been invalided, although injured severaltimes in previous affairs. He spent three months at theChesapeake Hospital at Fortress Monroe, where he wasdet
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