Gilliam, a lumber merchant in 1860 in North Carolina, was conscripted as a private at the age of 44 into Co. C of the 3rd NC Light Artillery, also known as the 40th Regiment North Carolina Troops, on March 5, 1864. He transferred from Co. C to Co. H on July 16, 1864.
After the war, he was a confectioner in the 1870 census and a merchant in the 1880 census in Wilson County, NC. He died on August 20, 1904 and is buried in Wilson County's Maplewood Cemetery.
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