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DANIEL 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 artillery
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He distinguished himself in the Mexican War, being breveted captain and major for bravery at Contreras and Churubusco and at Chapultepec respectively
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In See also: February 1849 he resigned his commission and became a professor of See also: mathematics at Washing-ton See also: College (now See also: Washington and See also: Lee University),
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In 184 he joined the faculty of See also: Davidson College, See also: North Carolina, and was in 18J9 made See also: superintendent of the North Carolina Military Institute of See also: Charlotte
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See also: Hill was made colonel of a Confederate
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Shortly after this he was made a brigadier-general
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He took See also: part in the See also: Yorktown and See also: Williamsburg operations in the spring of 1862, and as a major-general led a division with See also: great distinction in the See also: battle of See also: Fair Oaks and the Seven Days
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He took part in the Second 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
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Hill's division in the passes of South See also: Mountain enabled Lee to concentrate for battle
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The division See also: bore a conspicuous part in the battles of the Antietam and Fredericksburg
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On the reorganization of the army of See also: Northern Virginia after See also: Jackson's See also: death, D
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Hill was not appointed to a corps command, but some-what later in 1863 he was sent to the west as a See also: lieutenant-general and commanded one of See also: Bragg's corps in the brilliant victory of Chickamauga
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Hill surrendered with Gen
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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 influence in the South
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In 1877 he became 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
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General Hill died at Charlotte, N.C., on the 24th of September 1889 . |
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