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Collection: HILL, DANIEL HARVEY-, JR., PAPERS
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Physical Description: c. 1,250 items consisting of correspondence, appoint¬
ments, biographies, photographs, newspaper clippings, deed, speeches,
articles, essays, reminiscences, drafts of books, and miscellaneous papers.
Acquisition: Biennial Report. 1916-1918: 5 items; 1918-1920 . addition;
1920-1922, addition; 1930-1932, 1,102 pieces, 1890-1923, chiefly letters
to D. H. Hill, given by Mrs. Hill, Raleigh. November 10. 1939. 177
pieces, given by Miss Pauline Hill, Raleigh; October 21, 1947. mis¬
cellaneous manuscripts, etc., given by Miss Pauline Hill; June 30. 1959.
2 binders containing typed drafts of 15 chapters of Bethel to Sharps-
burg (1 black box), transferred from Division of Publications, Depart¬
ment of Archives and History.
Description: Daniel Harvey Hill, Jr., was bom on January 15, 1859, in
Davidson, North Carolina. Son of Major General Daniel Harvey Hill, he
was educated at Homer's School, the North Carolina Military Institute,
and Davidson College. He was professor of English at Georgia Military
and Agriculture College and at North Carolina College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts (now North Carolina State University) becoming presi¬
dent of the latter institution in 1908. In 1916, he resigned the
presidency in order to write the history of North Carolina in the Civil
War. He died in 1924, having completed only two volumes of the history,
Bethel to Sharpsburg (Raleigh: N. C. Historical Commission, 2 volumes,
1926) . He was also the author of several other books and pamphlets. Dur¬
ing World War I, he was Chairman of the State Council of Defense, and at
the time of his death, he was Secretary of the North Carolina Historical
Commission. For additional biographical information on Hill, as well as
on his father, see Samuel A. Ashe (ed.), Biographical History of North
Carolina, Vol. VII, pp. 137-148.
The majority of Hill's papers date between 1916 and 1924, and they
deal mainly with his partially-completed history of North Carolina in
the Civil War. There are numerous letters from veterans of the war of¬
fering suggestions and information for the history. Kemp P. Battle,
Samuel Ashe, and James Sprunt were three of his main correspondents in
connection with this subject.
Battle sent extensive reminiscences, especially concerning the last
months of the war and Sherman's occupation of Raleigh in April, 1865. An
original, 18-page letter written by Battle to his father (William Horn
Battle) in 1865 also tells of the visit. Among the subjects discussed in
