HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889), American Con federate soldier, was born in York district, South Carolina, July 12 1821. He graduated at the United States military academy in 1842, and became a major in the Mexican War. From 1849 until the outbreak of the Civil War he was professor of mathematics at Washington college (Washington and Lee university), at David son college, North Carolina, and superintendent of the North Carolina military institute. As colonel of a Confederate infantry regiment he won the action of Big Bethel, June Io 1861. As major-general he led a division with great distinction in the battle of Fair Oaks and the Seven Days, in the second Bull Run cam paign. In the Antietam campaign the resistance of his division enabled Lee to concentrate for battle. It was conspicuous in the battles of the Antietam and Fredericksburg. In 1863 he com manded one of Bragg's corps in the victory of Chickamauga. In 1866-69 he edited The Land We Love, at Charlotte (N.C.). He became president of the University of Arkansas in 1877 and in 1885 of the Military and Agricultural College of Georgia. He died at Charlotte on Sept. 24 1889.