Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21., Memorial address, On the life and character of <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=hill,d.,h.&n=1&type=person">Lieut.-General D. H. Hill</a>,, page 126

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United Confederate Veterans .

Monument to the Confederate dead at the University of Virginia .

The muster roll [from the Staunton, Va. , Vindicator, March 3 , 1893 .]

Last days of the army of Northern Virginia .

The first Virginia infantry in the Peninsula campaign.

Memorial address

Birth and education.

Marriage and life as teacher.

Battle of Bethel .

Committed everything to God .

Assigned to command in North Carolina .

Ordered to Northern Virginia —friendship for Gen. Stone .

Lee assumes command— Seven days battle.

Mechanicsville .

South Mountain .

The lost order.

Special orders, no. 191 .

Special orders no. 191 .

Advance on Washington, N. C. , and defence of Richmond .

Joins the Western army—Chickamauga.

The petition for Braggs removal.

Retreat before Sherman —last charge at Bentonsville .

Last years—true character.

William Lowndes Yancey , [from the Moutgomery , Ala., daily Advertiser, April 15 , 1893 .]

The battle of Frazier's Farm , [from the New Orleans, La. , Picayune , February 19 , 1893 .]

The last battle of the war.

The bloody angle.

General R. F. Hoke 's last address [from the Richmond, Va. , times, April 9 , 1893 .]

The gold and silver in the Confederate States Treasury.

General Joseph E. Johnston 's campaign in Georgia .

The execution of Dr. David Minton Wright

Stonewall 's widow. [ Mrs. Jefferson Davis in the Ladies ' Home journal , Sept. 3 , 1893 .]

Appomattox Courthouse .

A monument to Major James W. Thomson , Confederate States Artillery .

Strategic points.

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[126] The galling fire that had broken Pender's left called for immediate action, and in the hurry of the moment it became necessary to develop the strength of the enemy's position by assault instead of reconnoissance, but under the orders of General Lee and the President, not of General Hill.

Richmond, VA. 1893.

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