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| birth_date    = {{birth date|1821|7|12}}
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1889|9|24|1821|7|12}}
| birth_place   = [[York County, South Carolina|York District, South Carolina]], U.S.
| death_place   = [[Charlotte, North Carolina]], U.S.
| placeofburial = Davidson College Cemetery,<br>[[Davidson, North Carolina]], U.S.
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| commands      = {{unbulleted list|[[1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment|1st North Carolina Infantry]]|Hill's Division|[[Second Corps, Army of Tennessee|Second Corps]], {{Nowrap|[[Army of Tennessee]]}}}}
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* [[Mexican–American War]]
** [[Battle of Contreras]]
** [[Battle of Churubusco]]
** [[Battle of Chapultepec]]
* [[American Civil War]]
** [[Battle of Big Bethel]]
** [[Battle of Seven Pines]]
** [[Seven Days Battles]]
** [[Battle of South Mountain]]
** [[Battle of Antietam]]
** [[Battle of Fredericksburg]]
** [[Gettysburg campaign]]
** [[Battle of Chickamauga]]
** [[Battle of Bentonville]]
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| signature_alt = D. H. Hill stylized autograph in ink
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'''Daniel Harvey Hill''' (July 12, 1821 – September 24, 1889), commonly known as '''D.  H. Hill''', was a [[General officers in the Confederate States Army#Lieutenant general|Confederate general]] who commanded [[infantry]] in the [[Eastern Theater of the American Civil War|eastern]] and [[Western Theater of the American Civil War|western]] theaters of the [[American Civil War]].

Hill was known as an aggressive leader, being severely strict, deeply religious, and having dry, sarcastic humor. He was brother-in-law to [[Stonewall Jackson]] and a close friend to both [[James Longstreet]] and [[Joseph E. Johnston]], but disagreements with both [[Robert E. Lee]] and [[Braxton Bragg]] cost him favor with Confederate President [[Jefferson Davis]]. Although his military ability was well respected, Hill was underused by the end of the American Civil War because of these political feuds.

==Early life and education==
Daniel Harvey Hill was born at Hill's Iron Works in [[York County, South Carolina|York District, South Carolina]] to Solomon and Nancy Cabeen Hill. His paternal grandfather, William "Billy" Hill, was an [[Ulster]] Scot native of [[Belfast]], [[Ireland]] who had an iron foundry in York District where he made cannons for the [[Continental Army]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Cowan|first=Thomas|date=Nov 1987|title="William Hill and the Aera Ironworks"|url=https://archive.org/details/journalofearlyso1321987muse/page/n3/mode/2up|journal=Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts|volume=13| issue=2 |pages=1–31|via=Archive.org}}</ref> His maternal grandfather was a native of [[Scotland]].

Hill graduated from the [[United States Military Academy]] in 1842, ranking 28 out of 56 cadets, and was appointed to the 1st United States Artillery as a brevet 2nd Lieutenant. He was transferred to the 3rd Artillery on October 20, 1843. Hill was promoted to 2nd Lt. On October 13, 1845, in the 4th Artillery Regt. He was promoted to 1st Lt on March 3, 1847.<ref>''Heitman's Register and Dictionary of the US Army,'' v1, 381</ref> As his regiment served as infantry, he distinguished himself in the [[Mexican–American War]], being [[brevet (military)|brevetted]] to captain for bravery at the [[Battle of Contreras]] and [[Battle of Churubusco]], and brevetted to major for bravery at the [[Battle of Chapultepec]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Hill, Daniel Harvey |volume=13 |page=464}}</ref> Among the people enslaved by the Hill family during Daniel Harvey's youth was [[Elias Hill]]. Daniel Harvey helped teach him to read and write. As a freedman after the war, Hill became a preacher and led his congregation in emigrating to Liberia after the [[Ku Klux Klan]] terrorized his neighborhood.<ref name="Witt2009">Witt, John Fabian. ''Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law''. Harvard University Press, June 30, 2009, p. 85–86, 128–149</ref>

In February 1849, Daniel Harvey Hill resigned his commission and became a professor of mathematics at Washington College (now [[Washington and Lee University]]), in [[Lexington, Virginia]].<ref name="EB1911" /> While living in Lexington, he wrote a college textbook for the [[Southern United States]] market, ''Elements of Algebra'', which "with quiet, sardonic humor, points a finger of ridicule or scorn at any and everything Northern." While not all of the textbook's questions were "anti-Yankee", many were, such as:{{r|bridges195605}}

{{blockquote|The [[Battle of Buena Vista|field of battle at Buena Vista]] is 6½ miles from [[Saltillo]]. Two [[Indiana National Guard|Indiana volunteers]] [[cowardice|ran away from the field of battle]] at the same time; one ran half a mile per hour faster than the other, and reached Saltillo 5 minutes and 54 6/11 seconds sooner than the other. Required their respective rates of travel. ''Ans.'' 6, and 5½ miles per hour. (''Elements of Algebra'', page 322.){{r|bridges195605}}}}

{{blockquote|A man in [[Cincinnati]] purchased 10,000 pounds of [[meat spoilage|bad pork]], at 1 cent per pound, and paid so much per pound to put it through a [[food adulteration|chemical process, by which it would appear sound]], and then sold it at an advanced price, clearing $450 by the fraud. The price at which he sold the pork per pound, multiplied by the cost per pound of the chemical process, was 3 cents. Required the price at which he sold it, and the cost of the chemical process. ''Ans.''  He sold it at 6 cents per pound, and the cost of the process was ½ cent per pound. (''Elements of Algebra'', page 321.){{r|bridges195605}}}}

{{blockquote|In the year 1692, the people of Massachusetts [[Salem witch trials|executed, imprisoned, or privately persecuted]] 469 persons, of both sexes, and all ages, for alleged crime of witchcraft. Of these, twice as many were privately persecuted as were imprisoned, and 7 17/19 times as many more were imprisoned than were executed. Required the number of sufferers of each kind? ''Answer.'' 19 executed, 150 imprisoned, and 300 privately persecuted.<ref>Hill, Maj. D. H. ''Elements of Algebra'', p. 151.</ref>}}

{{blockquote|At the Women's Rights Convention, held at Syracuse, New York, composed of 150 delegates, the old maids, childless-wives, and [[Bethlem Royal Hospital|bedlamites]] were to each other as the number 5, 7, and 3. How many were there of each class? ''Answer.'' 50, 70, and 30.<ref>Hill, Maj. D. H. ''Elements of Algebra'', p. 318.</ref>}}

By contrast, "Southerners in his problems invariably appear in a favorable light."<ref name="bridges195605">{{cite journal|last=Bridges|first=Hal|title=D. H. Hill's Anti-Yankee Algebra|journal=The Journal of Southern History|date=May 1956|volume=22|issue=2|pages=220–222|jstor=2954240|doi=10.2307/2954240}}</ref>

{{blockquote|A gentleman in Richmond expressed a willingness to liberate his slave, valued at $1000, upon the receipt of that sum from charitable persons. He received contributions from 24 persons; and of these there were 14/19ths fewer from the North than the South, and the average donation of the former was 4/5ths smaller than that of the latter. What was the entire amount given by the latter?  ''Answer.'' $50 by the former; $950 by the latter.<ref>Hill, Maj. D. H. ''Elements of Algebra'', p. 153.</ref>}}

In 1854, he joined the faculty of [[Davidson College]], [[North Carolina]]. In 1859, he was appointed as superintendent of the [[North Carolina Military Institute]] of [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]].<ref name="EB1911" />

==American Civil War==
At the outbreak of the American Civil War, D. H. Hill became a colonel of the 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, the "Bethel Regiment", at the head of which he won the [[Battle of Big Bethel]], near [[Fort Monroe]], [[Virginia]], on June 10, 1861. Shortly after this, on July 10, 1861, he was promoted to [[Brigadier General (CSA)|brigadier general]] and commanded troops in the Richmond area. By the spring of 1862, he was a major general and division commander in the Army of Northern Virginia. He participated in the [[Battle of Yorktown (1862)|Yorktown]] and [[Battle of Williamsburg|Williamsburg]] operations that started the [[Peninsula Campaign]] in the spring of 1862, and as a [[Major General (CSA)|major general]], led a division with great distinction in the [[Battle of Seven Pines]] and the [[Seven Days Battles]].<ref name="EB1911" /> Hill's division was left in the Richmond area while the rest of the army went north and did not participate in the [[Northern Virginia Campaign]].

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On July 22, 1862, Hill and [[Major general (United States)|U.S. Maj. Gen.]] [[John Adams Dix]] agreed in the general exchange of prisoners between the United States and Confederate armies, known as the [[Dix-Hill Cartel]].<ref>See Dix's report to U.S. Secretary of War [[Edwin Stanton]], July 23, 1862, ''[[Official Records of the American Civil War|Official Records]]'', Series II, vol. 4, pp. 265–68.</ref> This established a scale of equivalents, where an officer would be exchanged for a fixed number of enlisted men, and also allowed for the parole of prisoners, who would undertake not to serve in a military capacity until officially exchanged. (The cartel worked well for a few months but broke down when Confederates insisted on treating black prisoners of war as fugitive slaves and returning them to their previous owners.)

[[File:BloodyLaneAntietam.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"Bloody Lane" in the sunken road after the Battle of Antietam, 1862. General D. H. Hill's Confederate troops received multiple assaults and an enfilading fire from several U.S. divisions leaving this bloody scene.]]
In the [[Maryland Campaign]] of 1862, Hill's men fought at the [[Battle of South Mountain]]. Scattered as far north as [[Boonsboro, Maryland]] when the fighting began, the division fought tooth and nail, buying Lee's army enough time to concentrate at nearby Sharpsburg. Hill's division saw fierce action in the infamous sunken road ("Bloody Lane") at the [[Battle of Antietam]], and he rallied a few detached men from different brigades to hold the line at the critical moment. The Confederate defeat was largely due to the interception by McClellan of [[Special Order 191]] from Lee to his generals, revealing the movements of his widely separated divisions. Some have claimed that D. H. Hill received two copies of this order, of which one went astray. But Hill said he received only one copy.<ref>[[Stephen W. Sears|Sears, Stephen W.]], ''Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam'', 1983 (1985 Popular Library edition), {{ISBN|0-89919-172-X}}.pp. 100–101, 126</ref>

Hill's division was largely unengaged at the [[Battle of Fredericksburg]]. At this point, conflicts with Lee began to surface. Hill was not appointed to a corps command on the reorganization of the [[Army of Northern Virginia]] after Stonewall Jackson's death.<ref name="EB1911" /> He had already been detached from Lee's Army and sent to his home state to recruit troops. He led Confederate reserve troops protecting Richmond during the [[Gettysburg campaign]]. In late June, he successfully resisted a half-hearted advance by U.S. forces under John Adams Dix and [[Erasmus Keyes]].

In 1863, he was sent to [[Full General (CSA)|Gen.]] [[Braxton Bragg]]'s newly reorganized [[Army of Tennessee]], with a promotion to [[Lt. General (CSA)|lieutenant general]], to command [[Second Corps, Army of Tennessee|one of its corps]]. Hill had served under Bragg in Mexico and was initially pleased to be reunited with an old friend, but the warm feelings did not last long. Hill's forces saw some of the heaviest fighting in the bloody and confused [[Battle of Chickamauga]]. Afterward, Hill joined several other generals openly condemning Bragg's failure to exploit the victory. [[President of the Confederate States]] [[Jefferson Davis]] personally came to resolve this dispute in Bragg's favor and to the detriment of those unhappy generals. The Army of Tennessee was reorganized again, and Hill was left without a command. Davis then refused to forward Hill's appointment to the [[Confederate States Congress|Confederate Senate]], and he reverted to major general. Because of this, Hill saw less fighting throughout the remainder of the war.

After that, D. H. Hill commanded as a volunteer in smaller actions away from the major armies. Hill participated in the [[Battle of Bentonville]] in North Carolina, the last fight of the Army of Tennessee. Hill was a division commander when he, along with Gen. [[Joseph E. Johnston]], surrendered on April 26, 1865.

==Later life==
From 1866 to 1869, Hill edited a magazine, ''[[The Land We Love]]'', at Charlotte, North Carolina, which dealt with social and historical subjects and had a great influence in the former [[Slave states and free states|slave states]]. In 1877, he became one of the first presidents of the [[University of Arkansas]], a post that he held until 1884, and, in 1885, president of the [[Georgia Military College|Military and Agricultural College of Milledgeville]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]<ref name="EB1911"/> until August 1889, when he resigned due to failing health. General Hill died at Charlotte the following month and was buried in Davidson College Cemetery.<ref>Bridges, ''Lee's Maverick General'', pp. 277–279</ref><ref>Owen and Owen, ''Generals at Rest'', p. 176.</ref>

==Personal life==
On November 2, 1848, he married Isabella Morrison, who was the daughter of [[Robert Hall Morrison]], a Presbyterian minister and the first president of [[Davidson College]], and through her mother, a niece of [[North Carolina]] Governor [[William Alexander Graham]]. They would have nine children in all. One son, [[Daniel Harvey Hill Jr.]], would serve as president of North Carolina State College (now [[North Carolina State University]]). Their youngest son, [[Joseph Morrison Hill|Joseph Morrison]], would preside as the Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1904 to 1909.

Another military man who would become a Confederate Lieutenant General, [[Rufus Clay Barringer]] of Kannapolis married Eugenia Morrison in 1854. They had two children, Paul and Anna. Eugenia died of typhoid fever in 1858.<ref>Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders, p 17</ref>
In July 1857, Isabella's younger sister, [[Mary Anna Jackson|Mary Anna]], married Professor [[Stonewall Jackson|Thomas J. Jackson]] of the [[Virginia Military Institute]].{{r|bridges195605}} Hill and Jackson, who would later earn the nickname "Stonewall" as a Confederate officer, had crossed paths during the Mexican–American War and later developed a closer friendship when both men lived in [[Lexington, Virginia]] in the 1850s.<ref>Bridges, ''Lee's Maverick General,'' pp. 21-25, 277.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Justices, Judges and Officers of the Courts (1686-2006) |publisher=Arkansas Judiciary |url=https://courts.arkansas.gov/courts/supreme-court/historical-society/background-pg-2 |access-date=April 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406053115/https://courts.arkansas.gov/courts/supreme-court/historical-society/background-pg-2 |archive-date=April 6, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Also in 1857, Jackson endorsed ''Elements of Algebra'' as "superior to any other work with which I am acquainted on the same branch of science."{{r|bridges195605}}

==Selected works==
* ''College Discipline: An Inaugural Address Delivered at Davidson College, N.C., on February 28, 1855''. [n. p.: n. p.], 1855. 19 p.; 23&nbsp;cm.   [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/7195350 OCLC 7195350]
* ''Elements of Algebra''. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, [1857], 1859. xii, [13]-507 p. tables 22&nbsp;cm.  [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/19591232 OCLC 19591232]  [https://books.google.com/books?id=5JoKAAAAYAAJ&q=editions:N8Z5usuEgiYC ''Elements of Algebra'' by Maj. D. H. Hill.  Google Books pdf of the complete 1857 edition.]
* ''A Consideration of the Sermon on the Mount''. Philadelphia, PA: W. S. & A. Martien, 1858, 1859. 3 p.l., [5]-282 p.&nbsp;19&nbsp;cm.  [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/7195011 OCLC 7195011] e-Book version Ann Arbor, Mich.: Making of America, 2000. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/612157953 OCLC 612157953]
* ''The Crucifixion of Christ''. Philadelphia, PA: W.S. & A. Martien, 1859. 345 p.&nbsp;20&nbsp;cm. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/4392161 OCLC 4392161]
* ''Remarks of Major D. H. Hill of the N.C. Military Institute at Charlotte, before the Committee on Education of the North Carolina Legislature''. [North Carolina: n. p., 1860?]. 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 49 x 30&nbsp;cm. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/41374540 OCLC 41374540]
* Gen. Hill founded and edited ''The Land We Love: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Literature, Military History, and Agriculture''. 6 vols. Charlotte, NC: J.P. Irwin & D.H. Hill, 1866–1869. Sabin No. 38821. This magazine merged with ''The New Eclectic Magazine'' of Baltimore, MD. Subsequently, it was called ''The Southern Magazine''. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/752793193 OCLC 752793193] [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/8059841 OCLC Record Containing Contents List for Issues of ''The Land We Love''.]
* ''The Old South: An Address Delivered by Lieutenant-General D.H. Hill, at Ford's Grand Opera House, on Memorial Day, June 6, 1887, before the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland.'' Baltimore, MD: Andrew J. Conlon, 1887. 23 p. ; 23&nbsp;cm. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/5315299 OCLC 5315299]

==See also==
* [[List of American Civil War generals (Confederate)|List of Confederate States Army generals]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
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* Bridges, Hal. ''Lee's Maverick General: Daniel Harvey Hill''. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. {{ISBN|0-8032-6096-2}}. First published in 1961 by McGraw-Hill.
* Eicher, John H., and [[David J. Eicher]], ''Civil War High Commands.'' Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. {{ISBN|978-0-8047-3641-1}}.
* [[Clement A. Evans|Evans, Clement A.]], ed. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=publisher%3A%22Confederate%20Pub.%20Co.%22 ''Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History'']. 12 vols. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing Company, 1899. {{OCLC|833588}}.
* Hawkins, Vincent B. "Daniel Harvey Hill." In ''[[Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography]]'', edited by [[Trevor N. Dupuy]], Curt Johnson, and David L. Bongard. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. {{ISBN|978-0-06-270015-5}}.
* [[Robert Underwood Johnson|Johnson, Robert Underwood]], and Clarence C. Buel, eds. [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/books/battles/index.cfm ''Battles and Leaders of the Civil War''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212152446/http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/books/battles/index.cfm |date=December 12, 2008 }}. 4 vols. New York: Century Co., 1884–1888. {{OCLC|2048818}}.
* Owen, Richard, and James Owen. ''Generals at Rest: The Grave Sites of the 425 Official Confederate Generals''. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Co., 1997. {{ISBN|1-57249-045-4}}.
* Sifakis, Stewart. ''Who Was Who in the Civil War.'' New York: Facts On File, 1988. {{ISBN|978-0-8160-1055-4}}.
* U.S. War Department. [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/records/list.cfm ''The War of the Rebellion''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913062844/http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/records/list.cfm |date=September 13, 2009 }}: ''a Compilation of the [[Official Records of the American Civil War|Official Records]] of the Union and Confederate Armies''. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
* [http://www.civilwarhome.com/dhhill.htm Online biography of Hill]
* [[Ezra J. Warner (historian)|Warner, Ezra J.]] ''Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders.'' Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. {{ISBN|978-0-8071-0823-9}}.
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* [http://www.cmhpf.org/personalities/dhhill.html Daniel Harvey Hill] by Don L. Morrill, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission website
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140202161839/http://www.cmhpf.org/educationhill.htm Daniel Harvey Hill: The Pre-Civil War Years] by Dr. Don L. Morrill, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission website
* [https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2009/01/isabella-morrison-hill.html Isabella Morrison Hill], Wife Of Confederate General Daniel Harvey Hill
* [http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/306/entry North Carolina History Project: Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889)] by Troy L. Kickler.
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