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AMBROSE POWELL HILL

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 464 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMBROSE POWELL HILL  025–1865),
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American
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Con-federate soldier, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, on the 9th of November 1825, and graduated from West Point in 1847, being appointed to the 1st U.S. artillery . He served in the Mexican and Seminole
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Wars, was promoted first
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lieutenant in September 1851, and in 1855—1860 was employed on the
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United States' coast survey . In March 1861, just before the outbreak of the
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Civil War, he resigned his commission, and when his state seceded he was made colonel of a Virginian
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infantry regiment, winning promotion to the rank of brigadier-general on the field of Bull Run . In the
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Peninsular
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campaign of 1862 he gained further promotion, and as a major-general Hill was one of the most prominent and successful divisional commanders of Lee's army in the Seven Days', Second Bull Run,
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Antietam and Fredericksburg
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campaigns . His division formed
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part of " Stone-wall " Jackson's corps, and he was severely wounded in the flank attack of Chancellorsville in May 1863 . After Jackson's
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death Hill was made a lieutenant-general and placed in command of the 3rd corps of Lee's army, which he led in the
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Gettysburg campaign of 1863, the autumn campaign of the same
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year, and the
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Wilderness and
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Petersburg operations of 1864—65 . He was killed in front of the Petersburg lines on the 2nd of
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April 1865 . His reputation as a troop leader in
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battle was one of the highest amongst the generals of both sides, and both Lee and Jackson, when on their death-beds their thoughts wandered in delirium to the battlefield, called for " A . P . Hill " to deliver the decisive blow .

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