Emmet F. Gill, born Virginia; appointed third assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, February 19, 1863; CSS Fredericksburg, May, 1864; CSS Virginia II, January, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 632 and 1, 11, 690; Scharf 399n.]

Ezra Thomas Gill, born, August, 1841, North Carolina; resided in, as a farmer, and enlisted at Franklin County, North Carolina, May 16, 1861, aged 21, as private, company E, 15th Regiment North Carolina Troops; captured at or near Crampton's Pass, Maryland, September 14, 1862; confined at Fort Delaware, Delaware; exchanged at Aiken's Landing, James River, Virginia, November 10, 1862; returned to his company, and was promoted corporal, January 1, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about February 15, 1864; served as landsman on the CSS Yadkin, 1864; died June, 1914; buried at Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina. [NCT 5, 552; ORN 2, 1, 313; John E. Ellis.]

Richard Spencer Gill, originally joined the Confederate States Navy, aged 15, and served on the James River, Henrico County, Virginia; later served in company F, 53rd Regiment Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Marine Corps, in Virginia, 1864; transferred back to the Army, and surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April, 1865; married Nannie E. Strachan, at Chesterfield County, Virginia, October 30, 1878; died at Petersburg, Virginia, May 16, 1905. [See Florida Confederate Pension File no. A10391.]

Submitted by Ceya Minder

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