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Hill (DANIEL HARVEY an American)

DANIEL HARVEY, an American military officer; born in Hill's Iron Works, York district, S. C., July 12, 1821; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1842; served in the Mexican War; taught in Washington College, Virginia, and in Davidson College, North Carolina; president of the North Carolina Military Institute in Charlotte in 1859; in the Civil War entered the Confederate army as colonel, and was promoted to Lieutenant-General in 1863; commanded a corps at the battle of Chickamauga; became president of the Arkansas Industrial University in 1877; died in Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 24, 1889.

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