George Davis McDill (July 28, 1838 – June 15, 1899) was an American lawyer and Republican politician.
He served four years in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Polk County and surrounding areas.
At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he joined up with a company of volunteers for service in the Union Army.
[1] In March 1864, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and assigned to Company K of the newly-raised 37th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment.
Serving with the 37th Infantry, he participated in the Siege of Petersburg and was wounded at the Battle of the Crater—named for the detonation of a sapper mine intended to undermine the Confederate defense line.
[2] After the war, McDill studied law and was admitted to the bar at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1870.