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 | | Lieutenant-General Daniel Harvey Hill was born at Hill's Iron Works, South Carolina, July 12, 1821, of Scotch-Irish lineage. |
 | | General Hill was graduated at West Point in 1842, in the class with Longstreet, A. Stewart, G. Smith, R. Anderson and Van Dorn, and his first service was on the Maine frontier. |
 | | When his State legislature voted swords to the three bravest survivors of the war, one was awarded to Hill, He served at Fortress Monroe in 1848, and on February 28, 1849, resigned from the army to accept the professorship of mathematics at Washington college, Virginia. |
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