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Montgomery-area Civil War veteran was at Appomattox Court House
April 9 marks 160 years of the anniversary of when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. It was a pivotal moment in American history, and one of the soldiers who was there that day settled in Montgomery in the years after the war ended. Charles Hepburn Dill was born in Williamsport on June 22, 1842, to William C. and Elizabeth (nee Trexler) Dill. His great-great granddaughter is Doris Claudfelter Yeager, a former Montgomery resident who now makes her home in North Carolina. She shared the story of her great-great grandfather’s ...