Daniel
Harvey Hill was born in South Carolina in 1821. He served in the Mexican
War where he won two brevets. Hill resigned from the army in 1849
and obtained work teaching mathematics at Washington College in Lexington,
Virginia.
The brother-in-law of Thomas
Stonewall Jackson,
Hill became superintendent of North Carolina Military Institute, in
1859. On the outbreak of the American Civil
War he joined the Confederate Army.
Appointed as a major general in July, 1862, Hill was given the task
of negotiating the exchange of prisoners with General John
A. Dix of the Union Army. They decided
that the rate of exchange was one general for every 60 enlisted men,
a colonel for 15, a lieutenant for 4 and a sergeant for 2.
Hill fought at Antietam (September,
1862) before being sent to defend Richmond
during the Gettysburg Campaign.
After being sent to aid General Braxton Bragg
at Chickamauga (September, 1863),
Hill recommended his dismissal for incompetence. However, President
Jefferson Davis rejected the idea and
instead relieved Hill of his command.
Hill returned to action when he joined General Joseph
Johnston, commander of Confederate forces along the Mississippi
in 1863. Johnson was unable to stop William
Sherman taking Atlanta and Hill
was with Johnson surrendered to Sherman at Durham Station on 26th
April, 1865.
After the war Hill was president of the University of Arkansas (1877-84)
and the Georgia Military Academy (1885-89). Daniel Harvey Hill died
in 1889.
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