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Hill, Ambrose, GEN.
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Casualty Info
Last Address Culpeper
Casualty Date Apr 02, 1865
Cause KIA-Died of Wounds
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Virginia
Conflict Civil War
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1863-1865, 09R, Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
Other Memories After Jackson's death, Hill was promoted to lieutenant general and placed in command of the newly created Third Corps of Lee's army, which he led in the Gettysburg Campaign of 1863, the autumn campaign of the same year, and the Overland Campaign and Petersburg siege of 1864?65. He once said he had no desire to live to see the collapse of the Confederacy, and on April 2, 1865 (just seven days before Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House), he was killed by a Union soldier, Corporal John W. Mauck of the 138th Pennsylvania, as he rode to the front of the Petersburg lines, accompanied by a lone staff officer.
