General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate WarriorHe was known as Little Powell, and at West Point was a classmate of such future Civil War generals as Jackson, McClellan, and Burnside. He rose to command a corps in the famous Army of Northern Virginia and was a central figure in virtually every major engagement in the vital eastern theater. He possessed what a fellow soldier called "an unquenchable thirst for battle." His "Light Division" was the largest and became the most famous division in all the Confederate armies. Hill spearheaded Lee 's counteroffensive against McClellan in the Peninsular Campaign. He was also at Mechanicsville and Gaines's Mill, Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, Antietam (his savage flank attack in midafternoon remains one of the most dramatic events in American military history), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station (the most stunning defeat of his career), the Wilderness, Cold Harbor--and, of course, he became "the abiding strength and dependence of Lee's army" in the siege of Petersburg. Yet in the years since this hero of the Confederacy has remained relatively obscure. Based upon years of research, a previously undiscovered cache of Hill's papers, and never-published letters and memoirs by men who fought under him, this biography by a distinguished scholar at last restores to history the dauntless Light Division commander who, "as much as anyone, symbolized the Southern Confederacy: its enthusiasm, its pride, its incongruity, its sacrifice." A.P. Hill was killed in the last moments of the war by a Federal soldier whose surrender he had just demanded.--From dust jacket. |
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... officer and a man , " he wrote Hill , " I must frankly say that I know of no officer of any grade more competent than yourself to the faith- ful discharge of its duties . " 28 His position as an army officer working in a navy ...
... officer and a man , " he wrote Hill , " I must frankly say that I know of no officer of any grade more competent than yourself to the faith- ful discharge of its duties . " 28 His position as an army officer working in a navy ...
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... officers had the authority to issue and receive orders without the knowledge of their generals . " I do not believe , " Hill wrote Lee , " that an officer of the Ord- nance , Qr . Mr. , Commissary , or Medl . Dept. had the right to send ...
... officers had the authority to issue and receive orders without the knowledge of their generals . " I do not believe , " Hill wrote Lee , " that an officer of the Ord- nance , Qr . Mr. , Commissary , or Medl . Dept. had the right to send ...
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... officer in question . Jackson ordered his signal officer to investi- gate . He discovered that Capt . R. H. T. Adams , Hill's communica- tions chief , had leaked the contents of the intercepted message . Adams did not deny the act . He ...
... officer in question . Jackson ordered his signal officer to investi- gate . He discovered that Capt . R. H. T. Adams , Hill's communica- tions chief , had leaked the contents of the intercepted message . Adams did not deny the act . He ...
Contents
Stormy Road to Manhood | 3 |
Love Affairs and War Clouds | 19 |
The General Emerges | 35 |
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