Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: General A.P. Hill's Account of the Maryland Campaign (Illustrated)
Ambrose Powell Hill, better known as A.P. Hill (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865), was a well known Confederate general in the Civil War who was noted for his command of “Hill’s Light Division” under Stonewall Jackson. After Jackson’s death, he commanded the Third Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia until he was killed around Petersburg in the last week of the war.
Known to his soldiers as Little Powell, A.P. Hill graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1847, ranking 15th in a class of 38 graduates. He was appointed to the 1st U.S. Artillery as a second lieutenant and served in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars. However, he is best remembered for being engaged to Ellen B. Marcy, the future wife of Hill's West Point friend George B. McClellan, before her parents pressured her to break off the engagement.
As a major general, Hill was one of the most prominent and successful division commanders of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and never was this more the case than at the Battle of Antietam. Marching from Harper’s Ferry, which his division had just captured, Hill’s “Light Division” arrived just in time to stave off a potential catastrophe for Lee’s army on September 17, 1862, turning the tide on the Confederate army’s right flank at the Battle of Antietam later that afternoon. Hill provided an official account of his division’s participation in the Maryland Campaign, and it was preserved in The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. This edition includes illustrations of the Maryland Campaign, Hill, and other important commanders.
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Known to his soldiers as Little Powell, A.P. Hill graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1847, ranking 15th in a class of 38 graduates. He was appointed to the 1st U.S. Artillery as a second lieutenant and served in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars. However, he is best remembered for being engaged to Ellen B. Marcy, the future wife of Hill's West Point friend George B. McClellan, before her parents pressured her to break off the engagement.
As a major general, Hill was one of the most prominent and successful division commanders of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and never was this more the case than at the Battle of Antietam. Marching from Harper’s Ferry, which his division had just captured, Hill’s “Light Division” arrived just in time to stave off a potential catastrophe for Lee’s army on September 17, 1862, turning the tide on the Confederate army’s right flank at the Battle of Antietam later that afternoon. Hill provided an official account of his division’s participation in the Maryland Campaign, and it was preserved in The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. This edition includes illustrations of the Maryland Campaign, Hill, and other important commanders.
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: General A.P. Hill's Account of the Maryland Campaign (Illustrated)
Ambrose Powell Hill, better known as A.P. Hill (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865), was a well known Confederate general in the Civil War who was noted for his command of “Hill’s Light Division” under Stonewall Jackson. After Jackson’s death, he commanded the Third Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia until he was killed around Petersburg in the last week of the war.
Known to his soldiers as Little Powell, A.P. Hill graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1847, ranking 15th in a class of 38 graduates. He was appointed to the 1st U.S. Artillery as a second lieutenant and served in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars. However, he is best remembered for being engaged to Ellen B. Marcy, the future wife of Hill's West Point friend George B. McClellan, before her parents pressured her to break off the engagement.
As a major general, Hill was one of the most prominent and successful division commanders of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and never was this more the case than at the Battle of Antietam. Marching from Harper’s Ferry, which his division had just captured, Hill’s “Light Division” arrived just in time to stave off a potential catastrophe for Lee’s army on September 17, 1862, turning the tide on the Confederate army’s right flank at the Battle of Antietam later that afternoon. Hill provided an official account of his division’s participation in the Maryland Campaign, and it was preserved in The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. This edition includes illustrations of the Maryland Campaign, Hill, and other important commanders.
Known to his soldiers as Little Powell, A.P. Hill graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1847, ranking 15th in a class of 38 graduates. He was appointed to the 1st U.S. Artillery as a second lieutenant and served in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars. However, he is best remembered for being engaged to Ellen B. Marcy, the future wife of Hill's West Point friend George B. McClellan, before her parents pressured her to break off the engagement.
As a major general, Hill was one of the most prominent and successful division commanders of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and never was this more the case than at the Battle of Antietam. Marching from Harper’s Ferry, which his division had just captured, Hill’s “Light Division” arrived just in time to stave off a potential catastrophe for Lee’s army on September 17, 1862, turning the tide on the Confederate army’s right flank at the Battle of Antietam later that afternoon. Hill provided an official account of his division’s participation in the Maryland Campaign, and it was preserved in The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. This edition includes illustrations of the Maryland Campaign, Hill, and other important commanders.
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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: General A.P. Hill's Account of the Maryland Campaign (Illustrated)
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| BN ID: | 2940013048331 |
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| Publisher: | Charles River Editors |
| Publication date: | 08/24/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 675 KB |
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