HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)

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HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889) , American Confederate soldier, was born in

York

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  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
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YORK, EDMUND OF
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- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
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YORK, FREDERICK
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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DISTRICT

, South Carolina, on the 12th of July 1821, and graduated at the 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 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 Charlotte. At the outbreak of the Civil War, D. H. Hill was made colonel of a Confederate infantry regiment, at the head of which he won the action of Big Bethel, near Fortress Monroe, Va., on the loth of June 1861. Shortly after this he was made a brigadier-general. He took part in the Yorktown and Williamsburg operations in the

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SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

of 1862, and as a major-general led a division with great distinction in the battle of

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FAIR

Oaks and the Seven Days. He took part in the Second

Bull

Run campaign in August-September 1862, and in the 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 bore a conspicuous part in the battles of the Antietam and Fredericksburg. On the reorganization of the army of Northern Virginia after Jackson's 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 lieutenant-general and commanded one of

Bragg

BRAGG, BRAXTON (1817—1876)

's corps in the brilliant victory of Chickamauga. D. H. Hill surrendered with Gen. J. E. Johnston on the 26th of April 1865. In 18661869 he edited a magazine, The Land we Love, at Charlotte, N.C., which dealt with social and historical subjects and had a great influence in the South. In 1877 he became president of the university of Arkansas, a post which he held until 1884, and in 1885 president of the Military and Agricultural College of Milledgeville, Georgia. General Hill died at Charlotte, N.C., on the 24th of September 1889.

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