 Companies B, E, and K of George Armstrong Custer's Seventh U.S. Cavalry led by Major Lewis Merrill arrived in the area to try to quell the violence, Hill stepped in to lead the league, now in disarray.In another raid, Hill's nephews, Solomon Hill and June Moore, were attacked and forced to renounce their Republican Party affiliation in the local paper, the "Yorkville Enquirer".On May 5, 1871, a masked neighbor came to Hill's brother's cabin, which was next door to Hill's own.