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

The division

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

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

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