Monday, August 27, 2007

Charlotte 500, Lap 3: D.H. Hill


This one is for Civil War buffs.

On North Carolina 115 in the town of Davidson, just a couple blocks from the campus of Davidson College, there is a small graveyard wherein lie the remains of Lieutenant General Daniel Harvey Hill.

Hill, who also served during the Mexican War, participated in many major Civil War battles, including Seven Pines, the Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Chickamauga. By the end of the war, Hill was reduced to serving as a volunteer due to disagreements with Robert E. Lee and Braxton Bragg, two of the Confederacy's leading generals. He was with General Joseph Johnston in North Carolina when Johnston surrendered his army to William Tecumseh Sherman on April 26, 1865.

As you can read on the sign, Hill also taught at Davidson College and was superintendent of the North Carolina Military Institute. After the war, Hill served as the first president of the University of Arkansas and edited The Land We Love, an influential southern magazine based in Charlotte. Hill died in Charlotte in 1889.

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