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progress of the battle his division was ordered to the front by Juckson, and the execution of the movement caused the confusion incident to the death of Jackson. Tiiis Hank movement, how- ever, put to rout Hooker's riglit. He succeeded to the command of Jackson's corps on the death of its commander, and was subsequently s(>\ i rely wounded and was carried from tiie lioia Uuring the continuance of the light. His gallantry on this field gained his promotion to lieutenant- general, May 20. 18, i:!. and lie was placed in i-om- mand of one of the t!uee corps in which the Army of Northern Virginia was dividv^d. He led the third army corps, made up of Anderson's, Heth's and Pender's divisions, at Gettysl)urg, and in all the battles in opposing Grant's Virginia campaign from the Wildeni(>ss to Petersburg, where he met his death wlilie making a recon- naissance, April '2, 1805, duri i.; the struggle for the possession of the works before that city. He had undertaken to reach General Heth's division, and riding across in front of the lines he was shot from his horse by stragglers from the Fed- eral army. On learning of his fate. General Lee ordered a charge and recovered his b xly and had it buried at Coalfield, the family burial-ground. The casket was subsequently transferred toHolj-- rood cemetery, Richmond, and in 1891 the A. P. Hill Monument association caused it to rest at Westbrook, near Richmond, where they erected a handsome monument. He died on the battle- field near Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865.

HILL, Benjamin Harvey, senator, was born in Hillsl)orougli, Jasper county, Ga., Sept. 14,

1823; son of John and (Parliam) Hill; the

seventh of nine children and the fifth of six brothers. His father was a man of limited means and education, and his mother a woman of fine character, who exerted a strong influence in the family circle. Both liis parents were de- vout Methodists. He was brought up on liis father's farm in Jasper county till 1843, when the family removed to the neighborhood of Long Cane. Troup county, on a new plantation in the woods which he helped to clear. By much sacri- fice on the part of his mother and an aunt he was enabled to take a college course and was gradu- ated at the University of Georgia witii the highest honors in 1844. Tiie .same year he was married to Caroline Holt, of Athens, Ga. He was admitted to the bar in 184rj and to the supreme court of the state in 1848, and jiractised in La Grange, Ga. In IS.ll he was elected as a Whig to the general assembly of the state. In 1854 he was defeated by Hiram Warner for representative in the 34th congress. In 1857 he was the unsucc!essful Amer- ican candidate for governor of Georgia against Joseph E. Brown, Democrat, and in 1859 was elected to the state senate. He was nominated

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an elector at large on the Fillmore and Donelson ticket in 185G, and suppurled the ticket on the stump with great oratorical power. His name led tiie electors on the lUll and Everett electoral ticket in 18C0, and in ISOl he was a mcnber of the Georgia state con- vention of Jan. IbGl, where he posed secession strong speech voted for it when it came to a final test. He was a delegate to the Provisional con- gress in 1861 and a member of th.e Con- federate senate, 1861- 65, where he was chairman of the ju- diciary committee and a supporter of the administration of President Davis. He was arrested for disloyalty in 1806 and confined for two montlis in Fort Lafayette, New York harbor. He opposed the reconstruction measure of the Republican party, 1866-70; retired from political strife, 1870-72; sup- ported Horace Greeley for President in 1872; was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. senator that year; was a representative from the ninth Georgia district in the 44th and 45th congresses, having been elected in 1875 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Garnet MclMillan, and re-elected in 1876. He resigned his seat in the 45th congress in 1877 ui)on his election to the U.S. senate as suc- cessor to Tliomas INI. Norwood, and he took his seat March 5, 1877. In the house he made a notable sjieech on the amnesty bill; had a remarkable de- bate with James G. Blaine, and sj^oke in support of the electoral commission bill, which he declared to be " constitutional, wise and patriotic.'" His speeches in the U.S. senate were eminently patriotic and impressive. His death resulted from cancer on the tongue. A monument was erected to his memory at Atlanta by the citizens of Georgia. He was a trustee of the University of Georgia, 1856-82. He is the author of;i political work entitled: " Notes on the Sifuati-.m (1870). He died in Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 19. ].S^2. HILL, Daniel Harvey, soldier and educator. w;;s borninYorkdistrict, S.C, Julyl2or21. 1821; son of Solomon and Nancy (Cabeen) Hill. Solomon Hill was the jiroprietor of Hill's iron works. York district, which were established by his father, Col. William Hill, a native of York. Pa., and Col. Isaac Ilayne. of South C^arolina. His first ancestors in America were natives of Scot- land and Ireland and immigrated to America, settling in York, Pa. Daniel was graduated at