Hill, a wealthy planter in Duplin County, NC, is listed as colonel of the 31st regiment of the North Carolina Militia in an 1846 report by North Carolina's Adjuntant General, and appears as "Col. C. D. Hill" in numerous newspaper and directory publications during his entire life. Hill provided the Confederate Army with a large amount of supplies in 1863 and 1864, and in late 1864 was serving as the acting enrolling officer for Duplin County. Hill took the oath of allegiance on May 24, 1865. His application for presidential pardon, dated June 27, 1865, claims that he "was strongly opposed to the breaking up of the Union and gave no aid to the Confederate Government until in the fall of 1863..." when he was conscripted into the army, however, an April 25, 1861 article in the Wilmington Journal shows that he was elected one of three vice presidents of the newly formed States Rights Association for Duplin County.
Hill continued to be a prominent citizen of Duplin County, NC after the war, where he served as a trustee of Faison's high school, as county commissioner, and as a justice of the peace. He died on August 1, 1874.
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