{⋆★⋆} LG Hill, Ambrose Powell

Ambrose Powell Hill​

Born: November 9, 1825

Birthplace: Culpepper, Virginia

Father: Major Thomas Hill 1789 – 1857

(Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Culpepper, Virginia)​

Mother: Fannie Russell Baptist 1792 – 1853

(Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Culpepper, Virginia)​

Wife: Catherine "Kitty" Morgan 1834 – 1920

(Buried: Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky)​

Married: July 18, 1859 in Lexington, Kentucky

Children:

Henrietta "Nettie" Hill 1860 – 1862​

(Buried: Unknown)​

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Frances Russell Hill Hale 1861 – 1919​

(Buried: Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky)​

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Lucy Lee Hill MacGill 1863 – 1931​

(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​

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Ann Powell Hill 1865 – 1871​

Education:

1847: Graduated from West Point Military Academy (15th in class)

Occupation:

1847: Brevet 2nd Lt. United States Army, 1st Artillery​

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1847 – 1851: 2nd Lt. United States Army, 1st Artillery​

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1850 – 1860: Served in Office of Coast Survey in Washington, D.C.​

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1851 – 1861: 1st Lt. United States Army, 1st Artillery​

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1861: Resigned from United States Army on March 1st​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1862: Colonel of 13th Virginia Infantry​

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1861: Saw no action during the Battle of First Bull Run​

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1862: Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, Infantry

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1862: Participated in the Peninsula Campaign​

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1862: Participated at the Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia​

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1862 – 1863: Major General in the Confederate Army, Infantry​

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1862 – 1863: Commander of Hill's Light Division​

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1862: Participated in the Seven Days Campaign​

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1862: Participated in the Second Battle of Bull Run​

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1862: Participated in the Battle of Sharpsburg, (Antietam)​

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1862: Participated in the Battle of Fredericksburg​

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1863: Wounded in the Calves of his legs at Battle of Chancellorsville​

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1863 – 1865: Lt. General in the Confederate Army Infantry​

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1863 – 1865: Commander 3rd Army Corps Army of Northern Virginia​

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1863: Participated in the Battle of Gettysburg​

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1863: Participated in the Battle of Bristoe Station​

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1863: Participated in the Battle of Mine Run​

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1864: Participated in the Battle of the Wilderness​

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1864: Medically Incapacitated during Battle of Spotsylvania

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1864: Participated in the Battle of North Anna​

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1864: Participated in the Battle of Cold Harbor​

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1864 – 1865: Participated in the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia​

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1864 – 1865: Very sick during the Winter months​

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1865: Recuperating in Richmond, Virginia​

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1865: Killed during Third Battle of Petersburg

Died: April 2, 1865

Place of Death: Petersburg, Virginia

Cause of Death: Killed in Battle

Age at time of Death: 39 years old

Original Burial Place: Old Winston Cemetery, Chesterfield Co., Virginia

Burial Place: Ambrose Powell Hill Monument, Richmond, Virginia

 

[jvarnell]

Read Robertson's book about Hill. He contracted gonorrhea while on leave from West Point, probably from enjoying a brothel visit in NYC. He suffered from bouts of acute/then chronic prostatitis for the rest of his life. Some flare-ups were so awful he couldn't ride his horse, and the fevers associated with it made him sick. Not to mention the inability to pass urine. He was often carried in wagons cause he couldn't walk. It's amazing that he still married and fathered children in between debilitating attacks of his swollen prostate gland. There are those that have thought that this condition he had was the reason he rode out on horseback into an obvious ambush that ended his life. It was certainly evident at that time the Confederate army was soon to be overrun/outnumbered and forced to surrender. Almost as if Hill decided to end his life in a "blaze of glory" rather than suffer from the ill- effects of chronic prostatitis for the rest of his life. All due to him getting "VD."

I used to hunt deer/turkey at Ft. A.P. Hill years ago. Area 10 was loaded with turkey.

Boys will be boys.....he just got the short straw is all.....

 

[Ole Miss]

As I have aged I have had difficulties with my prostate and certainly cringe imagining how little relief if any Powell ever had. The inability to relieve oneself is horrific.
Regards
David

 

[Pollaco]

As I have aged I have had difficulties with my prostate and certainly cringe imagining how little relief if any Powell ever had. The inability to relieve oneself is horrific.
Regards
David

Can you imagine being on horseback?

 

[Sheltowee]

I'm guessing it had something to do with her remarrying in 1870 to a doctor in Louisville.

Gotcha...... thanks

 

[JPChurch]

As I have aged I have had difficulties with my prostate and certainly cringe imagining how little relief if any Powell ever had. The inability to relieve oneself is horrific.
Regards
David

Me too, although my prostate is not enlarged, I'm now dealing with intermediate stage cancer. I begin all the therapy next year once my Medicare/ supplemental coverage kicks in at 65. It's no fun at all. My father went through all of it and did not survive.

 

[Ole Miss]

JP I certainly hope your treatment is successful and that you will be cured and cancer free. Medicare is a blessing and I sure hope that it will be there for my children and grandchildren.
Good Luck
Regards
David

 

[Vicksburger]

Happy (belated) Birthday to Gen. A. P. Hill, a real fighter who gave 'em hell at the start of the Seven Day's Battles!

 

[USS ALASKA]

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Birthday

09 Nov 1825

Ambrose Powell Hill (d.1865), Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), was born. Known for his red battle shirt and his hard-hitting attacks at the head of the famed Light Division, Ambrose P. Hill proved to be an example of the Peter principle. A West Pointer (1847) and veteran artilleryman, he resigned as a first lieutenant on March 1, 1861, and joined the South, where his services included: colonel, 13th Virginia (spring 1861); brigadier general, CSA (February 26, 1862); commanding brigade, Longstreet's Division, Department of Northern Virginia (ca. February 26 – May 27, 1862); major general, CSA (May 26, 1862); commanding Light Division (in lst Corps from June 29 and 2nd Corps from July 27, 1862), Army of Northern Virginia (May 27, 1862 – May 2, 1863); commanding 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia (May 2 and 6-30, 1863); lieutenant general, CSA (May 24, 1863); and commanding 3rd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia (May 30, 1863-May 7, 1864 and May 21, 1864-April 2, 1865). In reserve at lst Bull Run, he fought at Yorktown and Williamsburg before being given command of a division. On the day he assumed command he directed the fight at Hanover Court House. He then took part in the Seven Days, distinguishing himself. After fighting at Cedar Mountain, 2nd Bull Run, and the capture of Harpers Ferry, he launched powerful counterattacks at the right moment at both Antietam and Fredericksburg. At Chancellorsville he was on Jackson's famed march around the Union right flank. When Jackson was wounded, Hill took command of the corps but was wounded carrying out his chief's orders to "press right in." At the end of the month he was given command of the new 3rd Corps, which he led to Gettysburg where, suffering from a now unidentifiable illness, he put in a lackluster performance. He was responsible for the disaster at Bristoe Station that fall and, again ill, was virtually circumvented at the Wilderness when Lee in effect took over command of the corps. He relinquished command temporarily after the battle and missed Spotsylvania but returned for the North Anna and Cold Harbor. Taking part in the siege of Petersburg, he was again ill during part of the winter of 186465. With the lines around the city collapsing on April 2, 1865, he was shot and killed in an encounter with a stray group of federal soldiers. Interestingly enough, both Stonewall Jackson and Lee called for Hill and his division in their dying delirium. It must have been the old Hill they were recalling.

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Journal Article
A. P. HILL: A STUDY IN CONFEDERATE LEADERSHIP
JOHN WHEELER-BENNETT
The Virginia Quarterly Review
Vol. 37, No. 2 (Spring 1961), pp. 198-209
University of Virginia

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26442685

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