. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. n he commenced for himselfthe mercantile and milling business, which was prose-cuted with the great energy characteristic of ColonelHill. During his mercantile hfe he was connected withand had the management of three different mercantilehouses, and purchased for two others in the easterncities. During the same period he was the owner andmanager of two mercantile houses in the same place,running one house against the other, and so well was thismanaged that his own family was not aware that he ownedboth. This singu
. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. n he commenced for himselfthe mercantile and milling business, which was prose-cuted with the great energy characteristic of ColonelHill. During his mercantile hfe he was connected withand had the management of three different mercantilehouses, and purchased for two others in the easterncities. During the same period he was the owner andmanager of two mercantile houses in the same place,running one house against the other, and so well was thismanaged that his own family was not aware that he ownedboth. This singular business freak was in order to havecompetition and draw trade to his own town, which oldcitizens, after learning of it, admitted was a completesuccess. In 1862, while Colonel Hill was in the milling bus-iness, when the great war of the Rebellion was fully in-augurated, and all the loyal sons of the United Stateswere preparing to defend our flag, he was among the firstto settle his business, enroll his name and organize acompany, which was embodied in the Eighty-first regi-. z^ HISTORY OF HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO. 395 ment of Ohio volunteer infantry. He was chosen cap-tain of company A, after which he was promoted tolieutenant colonel of the same regiment, and brevetedcolonel on the twelfth day of August, 1864. While inthe line of his duty in front of Atlanta, Colonel Hill re-ceived a gun-shot wound in the left hand and was sentto the hospital in Cincinnati. Before he had sufficientlyrecovered to return to his regiment he was assigned toduty on a court-martial. As soon as he was relievedfrom that duty, on his own application after having beenoffered a discharge, he returned to his regiment, joiningit at Goldsborough, North Carolina, and remained withit until the war closed with the surrendering of GeneralLee. He was then mustered out with his regiment atCamp Dennison. He entered the service at the com-mencement of the war, as before noticed, with the rankof captain, and attaine
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