Gen. Sill

This gallant young officer who fell at Murfreesboro on Friday was a resident of Chillicothe at the time the war broke out. His original regiment, the 33d Ohio, was organized at Camp Portsmouth. – General Sill was a graduate in the Ordnance Corps at West Point in the class of 1853 – He continued in the regular army till the winter of 1860 and ’61, when he retired. At that time, we believe, he was on duty at Fort Leavenworth. His age was about thirty-one years. A commission as Colonel of Volunteers was issued to him on July 26th, 1861. He was appointed Brigadier General about eight months before his death. We are informed that he has a brother and father living in Chilicothe. He was a man of small stature but very active. Ohio loses in him an ornament in her military chaplet.

– Published in the Zanesville Daily Courier, Zanesville, Ohio, Monday, January 5, 1863