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- John Dillon Hall was a Civil War soldier in the Union Army. His name can be found on the Civil War Monument in the center of East Douglas.
John Dillon Hall enlisted Sep 14, 1861, Private, Co. D, 25 Reg't Mass. Infantry at Camp Lincoln at the age of 27 for a period of 3 years.
Appointed Corporal , Jan 2, 1863.
John Dillon Hall reenlisted Jan 2, 1864 at Newport News, VA for a period of 3 years.
He was a man with light brown hair, brown eyes and ligh complexion and stood a height of 5 feet, 5 1/4 inches tall.
On Jun 18, 1864, John Dillon Hall was wounded in action at Petersburg, VA. The Army had listed him as a deserter from furlough, but through three pieces of correspondence, it was discovered that the had no use of one of his legs and probably
never would regain that use. The three pieces of correspondence were written to Dr. McClellan and signed by Dr. Geo. W. Warren, M.D.
John Dillon Hall received an Certificate of Disability Discharge from the Army of the United States on Jul 25, 1865. At that time he was a Corporal under 1st Lieutenant Charles C. Murdock, Co. D of the 25th Reg't of the Mass. Vol.
Pension File for John D. Hall showed he filed for pension on 24 Oct 1865 as invalid, Application No. 93665, Certificate No. 64468. His widow, Mandana, filed 12 Jul 1890, Application No. 430539, Certificate No. 331714 in Massachusetts.
- (Research):The Uxbridge, MA Vital Records show John Milton Hall as his birth name. However, a family bible dated 1829, which was a gift to Alvah and Charlotte (Carpenter) Hall on their wedding day, 5 Jul 1829 had four slips of paper in it when Joseph S.
Hall, Sr. received it from his mother's estate. Those slips of paper, 8 1/2 x 11 in size, had births, deaths and marriages of family members written on them. Those family records show John D. Hall instead of John M. Hall with the same date of
birth. To further this, the vital records in West Boylston, MA state that John D. Hall, son of Alvah and Charlotte Hall married Mandana M. Lawrence on 16 Jul 1853. Therefore, it is founded by evidence that the Uxbridge Vital Records are in
error and the middle initial is D for Dillon, not M for Milton.
25th MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER Regiment Infantry
Organized at Worcester September 1 to October 31, 1861. Moved to Annapolis, Md., October 31-November 1, and duty there until January 7, 1862. Attached to Foster's 1st Brigade, Burnside's Expeditionary Corps, to April, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, Dept. of North Carolina, to December, 1862. Lee's Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to June, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Defenses of New
Berne, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina, to August, 1863. District of the Pamlico, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to September, 1863. Defenses of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to October, 1863. Heckman's
Brigade, Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to January, 1864. Unattached, United States Forces, Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to March, 1864. 2nd Brigade, United States Forces, Portsmouth, Va., to
April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to September, 1864. Defenses of New Berne, N. C, District of North Carolina, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to March, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 2nd
Division, District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina, to March, 1865. 2nd Brigade Division, District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of North Carolina, to April, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to
July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Burnside's Expedition to Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island, N. C., January 7-February 7, 1862. Battle of Roanoke Island February 8. Expedition to New Berne March 11-13. Battle of New Berne March 14. Provost duty at New Berne until May
9. Reconnaissance toward Trenton May 15-16. Trenton Bridge May 15. Picket and outpost duty until July. Expedition to Trenton and Pollocksville July 24-28. Guard, picket and outpost duty at New Berne until December 10. Demonstration on New Berne
November 11. Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro December 10-20. Kinston December 14. Whitehall December 16. Goldsboro December 17. Duty at New Berne until October, 1863. Demonstration on Kinston March 6-8, Core Creek March 7. Skirmishes at Deep
Gully, New Berne, March 13-14. Demonstration on Kinston May 20-23. Gum Swamp May 22. Expedition to Swift Creek July 17-20, and to Winton July 25-31. Moved to Newport News October 16-18 and duty there until January 22, 1864. Moved to Portsmouth
January 22, 1864, and duty in the Defenses of that city until April 26. Moved to Yorktown April 26. Butler's operations on south side of the James and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28. Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred May 5.
Port Walthal, Chester Station, May 6-7. Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church May 9-10. Operations against Port Darling May 12-16. Drury's Bluff May 14-16. Bermuda Hundred front May 17-28. Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor May 28-June 1.
Battles about Cold Harbor June 1-12; before Petersburg June 15-18. Siege of Petersburg and Richmond June 16 to September 4. In trenches at Bermuda Hundred August 25-September 4. Moved to New Berne, N. C., September 4-10, and duty there until
March, 1865. Non-Veterans ordered home October 5, 1864, and mustered out October 20, 1864. Demonstration from New Berne on Kinston December 9-13, 1864. Operations against Goldsboro, N. C., March 3-21. Battle of Wise's Forks March 8-10.
Occupation of Kinston March 14. Moved to Goldsboro March 22-23, and duty there until April 3. Advance on Raleigh April 9-13. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Moved to Greensboro May 3-7, thence to Charlotte May 12-13, and duty there until July
13. Moved to Readville, Mass., July 13-21. Mustered out July 28, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 154 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 169 Enlisted men by disease. Total 330.
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1834 - 1885 (51 years)
