Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-10-10
From the prssbyte
THE SOUTHERN GENERALS.

Among the Majors Generals of the South
eri army is Daniel H. Hill, whose head
quarters, we believe, are now at Petersburg,
Virginia. He must not be conioundcd with
General A. r. Hill, who is in the field, and
who is, we believe, Virginian. In former
days, General D. II. Hill was Professor of
Mathematics in Davidson College, North
Carolina, which position he left in 1859 to
become Principal of the North Carolina
Military Institute, at Charlotte. He was
then famiiarly known as "the Major"
having won that degree in the Army
of the United States, which he re-
signed to enter upon civil life. He was
born in South Carolina, educated at West
Point, and fought under General Scott from
Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico, and bears
still on his person some honorable scars
which he received in that great contest
He is a small, slender man, with quiet
determined air, not genial, but quite re-
served, if not morose in manner, and gives
the impression generally of one who is con-
tent to mind his own business, without COM
cerning himself much with The affairs of
others. In his house he is calmly, coldly
polite-nothing more. He was an admira-
BILE Professor, being thoroughly versed In
the studies of his department, and stimua-
ting the students to unusual exertions, but
so much of a martinez as to wish to intro
duce the strictness of West Point dlscl-
plne into the College. He is religious
man, and was a ruling elder in the College
church, and certainly discharged all the
duties of his office in the church consclen-
tiously and diligently. He taught Bible
class on the Sabbath, composed of the more
advanced students, and having carried this
class through the "Sermon on the Mount"
he afterwards published the result of his
studies on this part of Scripture in vol
ume which has been highly spoken of in
various quarters. He afterwards wrote
series of articles for the North Carottad
Presbyterian, which were collected and
published in book with the title, the
I" Crucifxion of Christ" He was mem
ber of the General Assembly which met at
indianapolis in 1859.
General Hill is South Carolinian in all
his feelings, principles, and preiudices, and
doubtless reioices that he is such. lie has
nursed his hatred to the North to such
| degree, that it has become as near to Il pas
sion as his cold nature permits In the
year 1860 he delivered lecture at several
places in North Carolina, in which he com
planned bitterly Of the injustice which had
been done to the South by the Northern
historians of the Revolutionary war; and
in which he asserted, in substance, that all
the battles gained in the Revolution by
Northern troops were series of " Yankee
tricks, and that the real, hard, open fight
ing had been done by the South. So in
veterate is this enmity to Northern men and
the Northern character in General Hill,
that it crops out in unexpected places, and
in most remarkable ways. 1t would puzzle
the ingenuity of most men to import see
tional feelings and prejudices into the neu-
tral region of pure mathmatics; but Cen.
Hill has succeeded in conveying covert
sneers by algebracal symbols, and insinua-
ting disparagemcnt through mathematical
problems. In 1857, he published text
book, called the g Elements Of Algebra" "
of which "T, j. jackson" then Profess
sor Of Natural and Experimental Philoso-
ply in the Virginia Military Institute"
now the famous rebel general, said in for
NAL recommendation that he regarded it
as superior to any other work with which !
am acquainted on the same branch OF
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