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D. H. (Daniel Harvey) Hill

From the state marker

“Lieutenant General, C.S.A.; Supt. N.C. Military Institute in Charlotte; Davidson College professor; Editor, "The Land We Love." Grave is here.”

State historical marker: L-40: D. H. Hill

1821–1889 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. The Orange County Grange hears Gen. D. H. Hill at Little River Church Six to eight hundred people, many of them women, gathered at Little River Church north of Hillsborough, where Gen. D. H. Hill addressed the County Grange on agriculture and on the Grange as a defender of the farmer against middlemen; a dinner under the oaks followed, and the Grange met in council in its hall. People: John Knox Hughes Place: Little River Church, northern Orange CountySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 6, 1876, p. 3

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Civil War Collection

Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina · 1860

Statewide Civil War collection of the State Archives of North Carolina, dated 1860 to 1965. It gathers pardon petitions, bounty payrolls, quartermaster vouchers and supply papers, disabled veterans' claims and letters about artificial limbs, regimental and unit papers, muster rolls, diaries, reminiscences, clippings and sheet music. Orange County is one of the many North Carolina counties represented.

Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889.

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  • Historical marker L-40: D. H. HillNC Highway Historical Marker Lieutenant General, C.S.A.; Supt. N.C. Military Institute in Charlotte; Davidson College professor; Editor, "The Land We Love." Grave is here.

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