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Civil War Soldiers - Hill
HILL, AMBROSE P., Virginia.
Colonel, Thirteenth Virginia Infantry, ___ 1861.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., February 26, 1862.
Major general, P. A. C. S., May 26, 1862.
Lieutenant general, P. A. C. S., May 24, 1863.
Killed at Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865.
Commands.
Brigade composed of the First, Seventh, Eleventh and Seventeenth
Regiments Virginia Infantry and Rogers' Battery of Light Artillery,
Army of Northern Virginia. Division composed of the brigades of
Pender, Heth, Archer, Lane, Thomas and McGowan, Army of Northern
Virginia. Commanding Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, composed
of the divisions of Anderson, Heth and Pender, July 19, 1863, to May
8, 1864.
Hill, Ambrose Powell, born in Virginia, appointed from Virginia
cadet United States Military Academy, July 1, 1842; graduated
fifteenth in a class of thirty-eight.
Brevet second lieutenant, First Artillery, July 1, 1847.
Second lieutenant, August 26, 1847.
First lieutenant, September 4, 1851.
Resigned March 1, 1861.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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HILL, DANIEL H., North Carolina.
Colonel, First North Carolina Regiment Infantry, May 10, 1861.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., July 10, 1861.
Major general, P. A. C. S., March 26, 1862.
Lieutenant general, P. A. C. S., July 11, 1863.
Died at Charlotte, N. C, September 24, 1889.Commands.
Organized and in command of Camp of Instruction at Raleigh, N.C., May
1, 1861. Brigade composed of Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and
Twenty-first Mississippi Regiments, Army of Northern Virginia.
Commanding Department of North Carolina, September 25, 1861. August
31, 1862, to July 12, 1863, in command of Department of Southern
Virginia and North Carolina. Division composed of the brigades of
Brigadier Generals Rains, Rodes, Garland and G. B. Anderson, Jackson's
Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, 1862 to 1863; also brigades of
Generals Doles, Iveson, Rodes and Colquitt in Jackson's Corps, Army of
Northern Virginia; also brigades of Brigadier Generals Deas, Manigault,
Sharp and Brantly, Army of Tennessee. In October, 1863, commanding
corps in Army of Tennessee, composed of the divisions of Cleburne and
Breckinridge. At battle of Bentonville, N. C, March 19, 1865, in
command of S. D. Lee's Corps.
Hill, Daniel Harvey, born in South Carolina, appointed from South
Carolina cadet United States Military Academy, July 1, 1838; graduated
twenty-eighth in a class of fifty-six.
Brevet second lieutenant, First Artillery, July 1, 1842; transferred
to Third Artillery, October 20, 1843.
Second lieutenant, Fourth Artillery, October 13, 1845.
First lieutenant, March 3, 1847.
Brevet captain, August 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct
in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, Mexico, and
Major, September 13, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the
storming of Chapultepec, Mexico.
Resigned February 28, 1849.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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