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DANIEL HARVEY HILL (1821-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 464 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DANIEL See also:HARVEY See also:HILL (1821-1889)  , See also:American Confederate soldier, was See also:born in See also:York See also:district, See also:South Carolina, on the 12th of See also:July 1821, and graduated at the See also:United States Military See also:Academy in 1842, being appointed to the 1st United States See also:artillery . He distinguished himself in the Mexican See also:War, being breveted See also:captain and See also:major for bravery at Contreras and Churubusco and at Chapultepec respectively . In See also:February 1849 he resigned his See also:commission and became a See also:professor of See also:mathematics at Washing-ton See also:College (now See also:Washington and See also:Lee University), See also:Lexington, See also:Virginia . In 184 he joined the See also:faculty of See also:Davidson College, See also:North Carolina, and was in 18J9 made See also:superintendent of the North Carolina Military See also:Institute of See also:Charlotte . At the outbreak of the See also:Civil War, D . H . See also:Hill was made See also:colonel of a Confederate See also:infantry See also:regiment, at the See also:head of which he won the See also:action of Big See also:Bethel, near Fortress See also:Monroe, Va., on the loth of See also:June 1861 . Shortly after this he was made a brigadier-See also:general . He took See also:part in the See also:Yorktown and See also:Williamsburg operations in the See also:spring of 1862, and as a major-general led a See also:division with See also:great distinction in the See also:battle of See also:Fair Oaks and the Seven Days . He took part in the Second See also:Bull Run See also:campaign in See also:August-See also:September 1862, and in the See also:Antietam campaign the stubborn resistance of D . H . Hill's division in the passes of South See also:Mountain enabled Lee to concentrate for battle .

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bore a conspicuous part in the battles of the Antietam and Fredericksburg . On the reorganization of the See also:army of See also:Northern Virginia after See also:Jackson's See also:death, D . H . Hill was not appointed to a See also:corps command, but some-what later in 1863 he was sent to the See also:west as a See also:lieutenant-general and commanded one of See also:Bragg's corps in the brilliant victory of Chickamauga . D . H . Hill surrendered with Gen . J . E . See also:Johnston on the 26th of See also:April 1865 . In 1866–1869 he edited a See also:magazine, The See also:Land we Love, at Charlotte, N.C., which dealt with social and See also:historical subjects and had a great See also:influence in the South . In 1877 he became See also:president of the university of See also:Arkansas, a See also:post which he held until 1884, and in 1885 president of the Military and Agricultural College of See also:Milledgeville, See also:Georgia .

General Hill died at Charlotte, N.C., on the 24th of September 1889 .

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