Daniel Harvey Hill

Hill, Daniel Harvey

Hill, Daniel Harvey (1821–89) educator; U.S. and Confederate army officer. Born in York District, South Carolina. Hill was graduated from West Point in 1842. He subsequently served on the frontier and in the Mexican War (1846–48). In 1849, Hill resigned his U.S. Army commission to teach mathematics at Washington College (1849–54) and later at Davidson College (1854–59). He was also Superintendent of the North Carolina Military Institute (1859–61). With the coming of the Civil War, Hill led the 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Big Bethel Church on June 10, 1861, being promoted to brigadier general the same day. He was subsequently promoted to major general in early 1862 and to lieutenant general in 1863. Hill served for the first two years of the war in the eastern theater and participated in the Peninsular campaign (1861–62) and the battles of Second Bull Run, South Mountain, and Antietam, all in 1862. In 1863, he was transferred to the Confederate Army of Tennessee and contributed to the defeat of Union forces at Chickamauga. Shortly after Chickamauga, Hill was relieved of his command and subsequently commanded troops only twice, at Petersburg and at Bentonville, in 1865. Certainly the smartest, and perhaps the best all-around, general officer in the Confederate Army, Hill did not forebear to criticize his commanders, particularly Robert E. Lee and then Braxton Bragg, a fault which led to his exclusion from greater responsibilities after 1863.

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