Ambrose Powell, an Indian fighter, explorer, sheriff, legislator, and close friend of President James Madison.

Hill continued to suffer from the effects of the STI for the rest of his life, being plagued with recurrent prostatitis, which was not treatable before the advent of antibiotics.

He may have also suffered urinary incontinence due to inflammation of the prostate pressing on his urethra, which could also lead to uremic poisoning and kidney damage.

She married Hill's West Point roommate George B. McClellan, who later was Commanding General of the United States Army.

He became the brother-in-law of future Confederate cavalry generals John Hunt Morgan (Hill's best man at the wedding) and Basil W.

This contradictory name for the largest division in all Confederate armies may have been selected because Hill wished his men a reputation for speed and agility.

One of Hill's soldiers wrote after the war, "The name was applicable, for we often marched without coats, blankets, knapsacks, or any other burdens except our arms and haversacks, which were never heavy and sometimes empty.

"[21] Hill's rookie division was in the thick of the fighting during the Seven Days Battles, being heavily engaged at Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, and Glendale.

[23] At the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 9, Hill launched a counterattack that stabilized the Confederate left flank, preventing it from being routed.

Three weeks later, at the Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas), Hill was placed on the Confederate left along the unfinished railroad cut and held it against repeated U.S. attacks.

Gen. James J. Archer, criticized him for the gap left in the division's front line, saying that Hill had been warned about it before the battle but had done nothing to correct it.

Still, the commanding general did not wish to lose his two experienced lieutenants' effective teamwork, so he refused to approve Hill's request.

[14] One of Hill's divisions, led by his West Point classmate Maj. Gen. Henry Heth, was the first to engage Union soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Although the first day of the battle was a resounding Confederate success, Hill received much postbellum criticism from proponents of the Lost Cause movement, suggesting that he had unwisely brought on a general engagement against orders before Lee's army was fully concentrated.

On the third day, two-thirds of the men in Pickett's Charge were from Hill's corps, but Robert E. Lee chose James Longstreet to be the overall commander of the assault.

[37] In the Overland Campaign of 1864, Hill's corps held back multiple U.S. attacks during the first day of the Battle of the Wilderness but became severely disorganized as a result.

Despite several requests from his division commanders, Hill refused to straighten and strengthen his line during the night, possibly due to Lee's plan to relieve them at daylight.

[38] Hill was medically incapacitated with an unspecified illness at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, so Maj. Gen. Jubal Early temporarily took command of the Third Corps.

[41] During the Siege of Petersburg of 1864–65, Hill and his men participated in several battles during the various U.S. offensives, particularly Jerusalem Plank Road, the Crater, Globe Tavern, Second Reams Station, and Peebles Farm.

Hill was ill several times that winter; in March 1865, his health had deteriorated to the point where he had to recuperate in Richmond until April 1, 1865.

He was killed about 600 yards northwardly from this marker, being shot by a small band of stragglers from the Federal lines on the morning of April 2, 1865.

A small parking area is located behind the monument on Duncan Road, making it easy and safe to visit and access.

The marker is located at GPS coordinates: 37° 11.365′ N, 77° 28.52′ W.[47] The SCV also marked what was thought in April 1912 to be the exact site where Hill fell.

[55] Historian Larry Tagg described Hill as "always emotional ... so high strung before battle that he had an increasing tendency to become unwell when the fighting was about to commence."

Prominent commanders of the camp (lodge) included Congressman Patrick Henry Drewry and Petersburg's multi-term state senator Samuel D. Rodgers.

[62] A bronze statue of Hill, created by Caspar Buberl after William Ludwell Sheppard's design, topped the monument,[63] while its plaster cast was given to the A.P.

[66] On June 26, 2020, the Hermitage Road Historic District Association released a public statement requesting that the City of Richmond remove and relocate the monument to a more appropriate location.

[67] This request occurred within the context of the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement, and further impetus for the removal of Confederate monuments had been provided by protests in Richmond and elsewhere that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020.

Hill (1941[81]–2023), is located in Caroline County, Virginia, about halfway between Richmond and Washington, D.C.[82] During World War II, the United States Navy named a Liberty Ship the SS A. P.

[84] In September 2022, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III accepted The Naming Commission's recommendation to rename Fort A.P.