Ambrose Powell Hill
| Ambrose Powell Hill, Jr. | |
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| Nickname(s) | "Little Powell", "A. P. Hill" |
| Born |
November 9, 1825 Culpeper, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | April 2, 1865 (aged 39) Petersburg, Virginia |
| Buried at | Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Allegiance |
 United States Confederate States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army Confederate Army
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| 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
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| Battles/wars | |
Mexican-American War
Seminole Wars
American Civil War
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.
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