Father: Joel Hill (1780-1857)
Mother: Mildred Golding (1794-1869)]
11/22/1850 - Lived with parents and sibs, Meadows District, Stokes Co., NC (indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as "Lereston Hill")
- Educated, Germanton Masonic Institute, Germanton, Stokes Co., NC
12/12/1857 - Father, Joel, died, Stokes Co., NC
1859-1860 - Attended 1st course of medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
06/05/1860 - Practiced medicine, Stokes Co., NC (living with mother, Mildred, and sibs - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as L. H. Hill)
1860-1861 - Attended 2nd course of medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
1861 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from: Germanton, Stokes Co., NC; preceptor: Dr. Joseph Hollinsworth; thesis: "Tobacco")
05/30/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., 11th NC Infantry (Volunteers), Germanton, NC [Note: This regiment subsequently became the 21st NC Infantry.]
09/01/1861 - As Pvt., Co. G, 11th NC Infantry, at home on furlough
09/13/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 11th NC Infantry [Note: Although Dr. Hill was designated as an Asst. Surgeon, North Carolina Troops, by his regiment and paid as such, he was not appointed as an Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, until 06/12/1862.]
12/00/1861 - Serving in Medical Department
01/00/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Brigade Hospital, Dumfries, Prince William Co., VA
02/27/1862 - Married, Minerva Victoria Rierson (1839-1891)
03/20/1862 - 2nd Asst. Surgeon, 21st NC infantry, North Carolina Volunteers
06/02/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, received one officers tent and fly, Garysburg, NC
07/11/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 06/12/1862
08/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Drewry's Bluff, VA
09/28/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, Daniel's North Carolina Brigade, near Drewry's Bluff, VA, received 500 lbs. of straw from an Asst. Quartermaster for hospital use
10/13/1862 - In a letter written from Drewry's Bluff, VA, to E. S. Gaillard [Medical Director, Gen. G.W. Smith's Department, Richmond, VA], "Sir, Yours requesting the date of my appointment has been received. My appointment bears date from June 12, 1862, in the C. S. A. . . . L. Hill, Asst Surgeon, 53rd N. C. Regt"
11/00/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, absent with leave from 53rd NC Infantry, N.C.T.
12/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, Daniel's North Carolina Brigade, Drewry's Bluff, VA & Goldsboro, NC
12/24/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, Danville, VA
04/10/1863 - Assigned as Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry - "Report for duty" [S. O. 87/6]
06/10/1863 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 02/01/1863
07/04/1863 - Captured by U.S. Army, Williamsport, MD
08/06/1863 - As a Prisoner of War, received at Fort Monroe, VA, from Baltimore, MD, and sent to Fort Norfolk, VA, "for confinement until further orders"
08/10/1863 - Received at Fort McHenry, MD, from Norfolk, VA, as a Prisoner of War
10/00/1863 - Prisoner of War
12/00/1863 - Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, near Orange C.H., VA
02/28/1864 - As Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, near Orange C.H., VA, "I certify that I have known Asst. Surgeon A. B. Johns of the 45th N.C. Regiment ever since his appointment as Asst. Surgeon in that Regiment - know him to be in very bad health when he joined it - & since which time I have been confined with him in prison at Fort McHenry when he suffered greatly from bad health in consequence of the extreme bad diet. Since his return to his command his health has not improved, but on the contrary, gotten worse. He is suffering most from Anemia & extreme physical debility; rendering him in my opinion unfit for the duties incumbent upon him. The disease to which I attribute Dr. John's feeble health is Chronic Diarrhea. . . .L H Hill, Surgeon 53rd N. C. Regt."
04/07/1864 - Medical Officer, 53rd NC Infantry, near Orange C.H., VA
05/24/1864 - As Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, admitted to a hospital, Richmond, VA (diagnosis: Debilitas)
05/27/1864 - Transferred to Gen. Hospital No. 4, Richmond, VA (diagnosis: Acute dysentery)
05/26/1864 - Granted furlough as Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, from Gen. Hospital No. 4, Richmond, VA
06/04/1864 - Leave [S.O. 130/21]
08/31/1864 - Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, ?Darrsville, VA
09/19/1864 - Left at Winchester, VA, in charge of the wounded
09/19/1864 - Captured by the U.S. Army, New Market, VA
09/19/1864 - As Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, Prisoner of War
10/00/1864 - Prisoner of War
11/12/1864 - Convalescent, U.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Frederick, MD
11/14/1864 - Transferred from U.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Frederick, MD, to U.S.A. Gen. Hospital, West's Buildings, Baltimore, MD
11/22/1864 - "Received of Lt. Col. John Woolley, Provost Marshall [U.S. Army], Baltimore, Maryland, the following named Rebel Surg to be sent through he federal lines, Surg. L.H. Hill, 53rd No. Ca., signed John Cassels, Capt. and A.D.C. Office of the Provost Marshall, Headquarters, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Fort Monroe, Va"
11/22/1864 - Awaiting exchange, Military Prison, Camp Hamilton, VA [near Hampton, VA]
12/00/1864 - Prisoner of War
01/06/1865 - Forwarded to the point of exchange per Flag of Truce steamer and released as a Prisoner of War
01/11/1865 - Leave [S.O. 08/28]
01/18/1864 - Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, Orange C. H., VA
01/28/1865 - As Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry, on leave of absence
02/00/1865 - Surgeon, 53rd NC Infantry
12/00/1869 - Mother, Mildred, died of asthma in Meadows, Stokes Co., NC
07/29/1870 - Practiced medicine, Meadows Township, Stokes Co., NC (living with wife, Minerva V., and three children - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as Lauriston H. Hill)
1874 - Practiced medicine, Germanton, Stokes Co., NC
1877 - Licensed to practice medicine in North Carolina
06/16/1880 - Practiced medicine, Germanton, Stokes Co., NC (lived with wife, "Manervy", four daughters and one son - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as "Laures Hill")
11/13/1891 - Wife, Minerva, died in Germanton, Stokes Co., NC
06/13/1900 - Practiced medicine, Meadows, Stokes Co., NC (living with three sons, two daughters, one son-in law, and one grandson - indexed in the 1900 U.S. Census as L.H. Hill)
04/15/1910 - Practiced medicine, Meadows Township, Germanton, Stokes Co., NC
(living with two sons, two daughters, one son-in-law, one grandson, and one granddaughter - indexed in the 1910 U.S. Census as "Laurie H. Hill")
11/00/1913 - Attended a Drainage Convention, Charlotte, NC and was cited in a local newspaper for "an endless repertoire of anecdotes" [Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte, NC, Nov. 20, 1913, p. 9]
1917 - Honorary member, Medical Society of North Carolina
01/28/1920 - Practiced medicine, Meadows Township, Germanton, Stokes Co., NC (lived with many relatives - indexed in the 1920 U.S. Census as "Larston H. Hill")
- Freemason
05/13/1921 - Died of cystic nephritis and heart complications, Meadows, Germanton, Stokes Co., NC

Michael Angelo provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
05/14/2016. Unpublished database.

The following was added by SleepingDog, the creator of this memorial:

CO G 21st NC Regt Troops
Also Field & Staff Surgeon, 53rd Regt NC Troops
Was a Mason.

He was educated at the Germanton Masonic Institute and at Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, Pa.

84yrs 3mos 13dys. Son of Joel (Joe) and Mildred (Milly) Golding Hill. Husband of Minerva V. Rierson Hill, who had preceded him in death.