Confederate General D. H. Hill A Military Biography

A devoutly religious man with an unrelenting disdain for Yankees, Daniel Harvey Hill was among the fiercest warriors to ever stride a battlefield. A West Point graduate renowned for unmatched courage in the Mexican War, he carried that valor into the Civil War, charging into the bloodiest clashes fought by the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee. Controversy trailed him relentlessly, as inescapable as his own shadow. In this groundbreaking cradle-to-grave biography--the first of its kind--award-winning author Chris J. Hartley delivers a compelling reassessment of one of the Confederacy's most enigmatic figures, illuminating the complex legacy of a soldier in gray whose life demands fresh exploration. A native South Carolinian, Daniel Harvey Hill stood at the heart of the Civil War's most defining moments--and at the center of its fiercest controversies. From his reluctant assault on Union General George B. McClellan's James River transports in 1862 to his role in negotiating the contentious prisoner cartel, Hill's actions repeatedly drew the ire of his superiors. He was blamed for the loss of Special Orders No. 191 during the Maryland Campaign.