Joshua W. Sill

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1831-12-06

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1862-12-31

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"Joshua W. Sill" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00009910, (accessed December 26, 2024).

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Ohio, U.S. General. Chillicothe, Ohio, native. Graduate of the United States Military Academy in 1853. Second lieutenant in the U.S. Army from 1853 to 1860. Teacher at Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in 1860. Colonel in the 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) in 1861. Division commander in the Army of the Ohio as brigadier general in 1862.

Whitelaw Reid, Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers, Volume I: History of the State During the War, and the Lives of Her Generals (New York: Moore, Wilstach and Baldwin, 1868), p. 919-920.

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