The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-08-06
GEN. D. H. HILL.

A correspondent Of the Richmond Enquir-
er furnishes the following interesting sketch
Of General Daniel fl. Hill, now commanding
the department:
As the two Generals, A. p. and d. H.
Hill, are frequently confounded. will, to
indiyidualize them, give a brief sketch OF
the latter, sketch of the former gentle man
having already been given to the public.
Gen. D. II. Hill is the descendant Of dis
tinguished revolutionary ancestors. His
grandfather, Col. Hill, commanded regi-
ment at the battle Of Hanging Rock. and was
severely wounded there. (See Lossing's
Field Book Of the Reyolution.) He was af-
forwards present at Kings Mountain, which
battle he IS said TO have planned, but was
incapacitated by his wound from taking part
in it. So formidable was his influence in
the rebel cause, that the British made him
an object Of special vengeance. His resi-
dence, with its numerous .out-buildings they
destroyed BY fire. and bis large iron works
in which,COl Isaac Hayne 0ie martyred pa
triot) was his partner, were also burned BY
the tories, and hundred negroes carried
Of. For these great losses the,two families
never received the slightest remuneration.
Two sons Of Col. Hill were school-fellows
Of Gen. Andrew Jackson.
Gen. Hills maternal grandfather was also
a Revolutionary patriot, and pronounced by
General Sumter the brayest man in his ar
my.
ID. II. Hill is not unworthy Of his ances-
try. As a young lieutenast, he won his
spurs in Mexico. His native State, ever
spprsciativs Of the merit o. her sons, pre-
fented him with beautiful wrought sword,
bearing this inscription
"soutb Carolina 10 Major Daniel II. Hill,
late Of The United States Army, now Pro-
fessor Of Mathematics, memorial of gallant
conduct il service at Monterey, Contreras,
Cerra Gordo, Very Cruz and Chapultepec,
Mexico"
After leaving the army he was, for some
years, Professor Of Mathematics in Wash
ington College, Va, and al the time North
Carolina seeded was superintendent Of the
North Carolina Military Institute. lie j.
the author oi 4 very able work Of Mathemat-
les, called Hills Elements Of Algebra. He
has also written several highly priced books
on religious iopies-the Cfrciixicu" and
" Sermon on tie Mount Ec.
He Is about thirty nine wears Of are, slight
in figure, and rather delicate in health but
Re shrinks from no harlsaips, spares himself
no fatigue, and exposes lis life with cool
ness which, were il not that lie considers his
life but secondary object, when compared
with the interests Of has country, would be
suicidal. As to what lie has accomplished
in the present war, from the time be was
FIRST appointed by Governor Ellis TO take
measures for arming the State of North Car
DINA 10 The present moment, we leave FOR
the future historian TO tell. = Christian,
4 gentleman, q soldier and patriot, be
stands soa5 TeUr Il suns rProric."
III addition 70 the above the Raleigh Re
gisier states, that Gen. Hill Is sincere and
exemplary christian, being az the time lie
took command * Colonel Of the ist Of North
Carolina Volunteers, an elder in the Presby-
terrain Church. Like good soldier, he cbeys
strictly tie commands Of his svperiOrs, and
requires from those under his command The
same implicit obedience 20 his orders. lie
- as brafe a. lion himself and detests
cowardice.
Gen. Hill and SleDewall Jackson married
sisters, and We hcar that there is a sort Of
rivalry between them as 10 which shall &C |
tomPfish most towards gsining tie indepen.
dehee 81 tlieit native South Gen. Jackson,
Tie Gen Hill, IS sincere christian, he BE-. /