Letter, [1849] Jan. 31, Lexington, Va. [to Phelps Collins], West Point [New York] / D.H. Hill.

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Letter, [1849] Jan. 31, Lexington, Va. [to Phelps Collins], West Point [New York] / D.H. Hill.

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Hill describes the students he is teaching at Washington College and the townspeople of Lexington.

4 p. ; 25 cm.

Washington & Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library

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Washington & Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library

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Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889

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Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889), soldier and educator, was born in York District, S.C., to Solomon Hill and Nancy Cabeen Hill. He graduated from West Point in 1842. As a United States army officer, he participated in all the major battles of the Mexican War. Hill resigned from the military in 1849 to become professor of mathematics at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). In 1854, he accepted the chair of the mathematics department at Davidson College, a position he held unti...

Washington College (Lexington, Va.)

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