LIEUTENANT-GENERAL AMBROSE POWELL HILL (U.S.M.A. 1847) was born 
in Culpeper County, Virginia, November 9, 1825, and served in 
the Mexican and Seminole wars.

In 1861, he resigned from the-army to enter the Confederate 
volunteers.  He was appointed brigadier-general February 26, 
1862, major-general in the following May and was one of the 
most efficient officers in the Confederate army, and rose to 
the command of the Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, when 
it was created in May 1863, being made lieutenant-general at 
the same time.  He was killed April 2, 1865.