Lee D. H. Hill Takes a New Command

[Wizard of Cozz]

100%. He is the definition of "can't get out of his own way". He was a talented officer but his abrasive personality and inability to get along with others took a major toll on his career.

Ryan

Any officers he had a good relationship with?

 

[rpkennedy]

Any officers he had a good relationship with?

For some weird reason, Stonewall Jackson. They were brothers-in-law so that may explain it.

Ryan

 

[Bruce Vail]

Any officers he had a good relationship with?

Yes, he seems to have had a good relationship with Jackson. Aside from the brother-in-law relationship, they knew each other pre-war better than most, having lived in Lexington Va in the 1850s at the same time (Hill was teaching at Washington College, Jackson at VMI). They also shared a weird Pseudo-Presbyterian religious outlook, including an attachment to to the concept of pre-destination that influenced their military outlook. Their shared sense of a pre-ordained military death sometimes lead to recklessness.

 

[jcrook]

Lee and Bragg referred to Hill as a 'croaker' because he came across as a defeatist, pessimist, complainer, and whiner with his constant complaining.