A.P. Hill

Ambrose Powell Hill, Jr.

Nickname(s)	"Little Powell", "A. P. Hill"
Born	(1825-11-09)November 9, 1825 Culpeper, Virginia, U.S.
Died	April 2, 1865(1865-04-02) (aged 39) Petersburg, Virginia
Buried at	Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Allegiance	United States Confederate States
Service/branch	United States Army Confederate Army
Years of service	1847–61 (USA) 1861–65 (CSA)
Rank	First lieutenant (USA) Lieutenant general (CSA)
Commands held	13th Virginia Infantry A. P. Hill's Light Division, Second Corps Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
Battles/wars	Mexican-American War Seminole Wars American Civil War Third Battle of Petersburg †

Ambrose Powell Hill, Jr. (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865) was a Confederate army general who was killed in the American Civil War.

A native Virginian, Hill was a career United States Army officer who had fought in the Mexican–American War and Seminole Wars prior to joining the Confederacy. After the start of the American Civil War, he gained early fame as the commander of the "Light Division" in the Seven Days Battles and became one of Stonewall Jackson's ablest subordinates, distinguishing himself in the 1862 battles of Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.

Following Jackson's death in May 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Hill was promoted to lieutenant general and commanded the Third Corps of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, which he led in the Gettysburg Campaign and the fall campaigns of 1863. His command of the corps in 1864–65 was interrupted on multiple occasions by illness, from which he did not return until just before the end of the war, when he was killed during the Union Army's offensive at the Third Battle of Petersburg.