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LIEUT. GEN. AMBROSE POWELL HILL.

Ambrose Powell Hill was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, aud is th * MB •f Major Mill, who, fur many years, trail a leading politician and merchant of that county. The subject of our sketch entered West Point, as a cadet from his native State, in L848, ami graduated on the 3d of June, 1847. On the 1st of July, 1*47, he was oommuaioned brevet second lieutenant First Artillery, and on the tftith of August, 1847, he was promoted second lieutenant. ll< entered the Confederate service at the commencement of the war, an colonel of the loth Regiment Virgiuia Volunteers. At the first battle of Manassas tnifl regiment, with the remainder of (jeneral Joseph E. Johnston's oommaud, arrived on the field just in time to insure and complete the great victory of that memorable day.