Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-04-11
From tie New York Herald, April 81
TYPOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.


III. F. Lee aud Pegram while among those whose
Surrender 20 Sheridan already announced are
Lieut.. Gen. Ewell, Major General Kershaw and
Brigsder Generals COrSe, De Bose and Gusts Lee
Virginia, as usual, has suffered the most
The three Generals killed were all from Virginia
tzsle Of the six captured four we're from the same
A'e'
SKETCH LIEUT.. GEN. AMBROSE POWELL HILL, JR.,
CF VIRGINIA.
Ambrose P. Hill was one Of the giants Of Lees
army, and disputed with Longstreet and Ewe for
the place in the affections Of the rebel people
which ''S,Onewalp Jackson once held. Hill was
native Of Oulpeper county, Va. He was born. we
believe in 1926, and at the time Of his death was
only 2s years of age. He entered West Point IN
lS43, with o. B. Wilcox, James &. Fry, 4. E.
Burnside, L. g. Yiele, of the United States army,
and Henry Heth, of the rebel forces, and gradua-
ted in 1851 number fifteen in his class he was
commissioned second lieutenant by hrevet Of the
First Artillery July l. lS47, and second lieutenant
in full in the August following he was subse-
quently promoted first lieutenant, First Artillery,
but resigned March lst, 1861, and was appointed
Colonel Of the 18th Va. Infantry, which he com
mauded at Man assas. He was engaged as brigade
commander at the battle of Williamsburg, in May,
1862, aud was promoted Brgadier on that field, and
Immediately afterwards Major General As such
he commanded the extreme left of the rebel army
in the seven days battles before Richmond, June,
1862, aud divided with Stonewal Jackson the rebel
honors Of those conflicts. In command OF this dvi-
sion he made the campaign under Lee against Pope
into Maryland, was engaged at Antietam fight
ing Burnside, and covered the retreat of the rebel
army from that disastrous field. On the reorgan-
zation of Lees army after the battle Of Frederick
lESE Hill was promoted and placed in command of
nv 1frd corps Of the army which position lie held
at the time of his death. At Charlottesville and
Gettysburg he again distinguished himself. During
the battles Of the Wilderness, May, 1864 he was
disabled by disease, and his command was placed
temporarily under General Jubal Early. August
25, 1864, Hll, having resumed command, fought
the battle OF Ream's Station, and since then has
been posted on the left of the rebel position before
Petersburg During the battle on the lSt instant
his command was separated from the rest of the
rebel army, aud in endeavoring TO restore commu-
nication he killed. His body was inferred at
Petersburg on Sunday, April 2.
BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM II. FITzHUGH lee, OF
VIRGINIA.
This officer, killed at Petersburg, was the second
son of Robert T.. Lee, and was born at Arlington
House, Virginia, about the year 1882. BE did not
receive an appointment to West Point bat was edu.
Gated at William and Mary's College, Virginia. He
received, however, the appointment of second lieu
tenant in the United States Army, June 30, 1855,
and was assigned to the Second infantry. He held
this rank until the breaking out Of the rebellion,
when be hastened to follow the example of bis
father and resigned April 80 1861 to accept cap.
taincy Of cavalry in the rebel army. He was at .
tached to J. +. B. Stuarts cavalry command. His
first expedition of any importance was in June
1862, when, under Stuart, he made the circuit Of
McClelians army, on the Pamunkey river. At this
time he was u colonel commanding a brigade but
VAS sOCn after rewarded with briCadier generals
commission. lie was engaged in the famous cavalry
ertre-at Beverly Ford, Va, June Q, 1863. He here
received painful wound in the thigh, and was re-
moved to the house Of Col. W. II. WiekEam, in
Hanover county. Here he captured few DAYS
subseouently by Gen. Spear, in his raid on the Pa.
munkev and carried to the White House. He was
sent North and confined being for time held as
hostage for Captain Sawyer. On his release he was
assigned to duty in command OF division OF STARTS
cavalry corps. This command was subsequently,
Given on Stuart's death, to Fitzhugh Lee, a cousin
of W. H. F. Lee, aud the latter remained in conf
mand of his division until his DEATH on the I'd inst
before Petersburg.
BRIG ADIER GENERAL WILLIAM JOHNSON PEGRAM, OF
VIRGINIA.
This Young officer, who was killed in the battle
of the "a inst. in the twentylourth year OF his
age, and a native of Petersburg, Va. de was one
of the three sons Of General James W. Pegram,
who perished in the steamer Lucy Long, on the
Ohio river, in lSi4, and brother Of the Rebel Gen
eral John Pegram, who was lately killed at the bat
tie Of Hatcher's Run. One Of young Pesrams
uncles was the late Captain George Pegram, OF
ElizabetLiown, n. J, who was an aid-de'camp to
General Scott. Another uncle IS Colouel William
Pegram, of Kentucky.
At tile breaking out of the war William John
son Pegram was a student of law at the Univer-
sity Of Virginia, at Charlottesville; but left his
s.ndies to volunteer in the ranks Of the " Rich
moDd Howi,zers, the first artillery company
raised in Richmond al the beginning OF the war
.nn9er the command of the then Captain George
R~Taudolph, late Secretary Of War Of ''the
Corfederacv." As a private in the ranks he
fopgbt In the frst battle Of Manassas, aud was
noted on the field for gallantry 10y Ger eral Joseph
l. f.l....p During the eundCcueutS around
Ricbmcrd in 1852 he celebrated his twenty-tr-t
birtb5ay amid the carnage Of battle. At Cedar
Run he was again n,ted on the bat'le-te d for gal.
liant action. ~ the battle Of Charlottesville Gen.
Lee Noticing the ability with which Pegram han
teries ~ he -laced under his command. At tie
battle Of Gettysburg he displayed sigma ability, aad