The Death of A.P. Hill: Petersburg National Battlefield Video Tour
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2021
- Will Greene tells the sad and fascinating story of General A.P. Hill’s death, from the very location where he fell at Petersburg. This video is part of our Petersburg and North Carolina Battlefield Tour series. Be sure to check out all of the other videos here: • Petersburg and North C...
I just watched a full documentary on Gen. Hill and learned he endured so much physical pain throughout his life, and yet was a brave and gallant soldier. Much respect to him.
An underrated general!
Its just too bad he betrayed his country
@@Mrdjs1133 I once thought that until I did my homework. At the time, they were sovereign states, and the Constitution at the time was much different. So it's not hard to see why they made the difficult choice as they did.
Two of my great great grandfathers served in AP Hill's 3rd Corps, Pender's Division, GA 35th Regiment.
One reads about battles and imagine the sites, but through these videos history becomes real.
@@BradRaiche Sir, we must never, NEVER let these Demons Re-Write our Great Nation's History! I'll stand with you in the cause of preserving this Nation's History because, if we lose to these Demons, we lose everything that helped make up the chemistry, yes, even the very "Fabric" of our Nation! Believe me, these Devils in the flesh even want to take away our Bibles, too! They want to take away our Freedoms, even to Worship God...and that must never be allowed to happen, either! If we lose these things, and especially if we lose our Freedoms, then we've not only lost it all, but we'll lose everything that our Armed Forces fought for, and that many have died for! I, like you, refuse to be found guilty of complacency. No, sir! We must defend what is ours!!!
@@BradRaiche Amen to ALL of your text! You get it. I get it. Many people have gotten the message that you and I have put on here. I wonder, though-What's it going to take, for everyone else to wake up, and smell what these Leftists are cookin'?!? If they have their evil way, our Country is finished! America-WAKE UP! UNITE! DEFEND YOUR FREEDOMS! If you don't do so now, the time will come when you'll wish you had! I believe that you and I agree on that! Have a great night, Sir! God bless you and yours! ✝️✝️✝️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Brad Raiche 0barry filled a position in the Library of Congress days before he left the Whitehouse, for the bunker. God only knows what has transpired there, since.
@@BradRaiche I've had enough...where do I sign up?
I’ve stayed at the Cashtown Inn...Hill’s headquarters outside of Gettysburg. You can almost see the troops march past the front porch.
The dead troops,? Respect the fallen not even funny SMH
I've talked to people who have seen marching Rebel troops. Some kind of replay from history, maybe due to atmospheric conditions. One guy told me he almost ran off the road while driving, he passed a bunch of Reb troops marching towards Chickamauga. He said they looked tired...Another guy lives near Atlanta airport a couple of miles, and they see a sentry march past their living room window. Same thing, it never varies.
@@amyrichard3203 I definitely believe that. At the Cashtown Inn we have heard someone walking in the room with heavy boots and smelled cigars. At the field of Pickett’s Charge I have heard cannon fire and orders being shouted. It’s really amazing to experience.
I so enjoyed this video, having visited the Petersburg National Battlefield some years ago. Thank You, American Battlefield Trust!
Excellent history lesson! Fascinating. And Thank you. This one is a hit.
If Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are both talking to you on their deathbed, you must be important.
Can't get enough of this series, great job everyone.
Thank you for sharing!
These sites must be protected before its too late. Hill was one of the most prominent Confederate generals in the sense that he fought at many battles throughout the whole war
Can't save everything.
@@inthedarkwoods2022 Have you visited Franklin Tennessee? Some places are worthy of preservation, ask the locals when you do visit Franklin.
History is worth saving it’s important for future generations. We embraced our history growing up for the next generation to just destroy it. The next generation will curse the last generation because it destroyed the past.
@@russharbaugh2028 Franklin is just too heartbreaking.
So glad I took the time to locate this site in 2014. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for posting this.
Excellent work as always from these gentlemen
Wonderful story of the fate of General Hill and what eventually became of his remains. Fascinating narrative.
And now he's literally been dug up against the wishes of his family.
What a nice little video. The marker is so interesting when you compare it to the large markers in national parks for generals who were killed in battle. Thank you.
Great video. I miss these sites, living in Scotland, so your work and mission is wonderfully welcome.
Back in 1994 the APCWS as it was then had its conference in Richmond with two days of tours of Petersburg, guided by Chris Calkins and we visited many of the sites that have been part of this great series of videos. (Pamplin Park was not yet open but we got a sneak peek at it.) This AP Hill site was one of the spots Chris led us to, I'd only seen the state historical marker alond the highway before. Appreciated the work the Trust does ever since.
Wow! So many facets of incredible points in this priceless American history piece. Thank you!
Awesome history, thank-you!
These videos are wonderful. The civil war is an instrumental topic in the history of our country
Interesting. I was reminded of the miserable two weeks spent at Camp A. P. Hill, somewhere in Virginia, during ROTC Summer Camp. That event was a long time ago, one of the many things endured to get a commission.
I am a union guy, but they need to respect AP Hills wishes and burry him in Culpepper
Agree! That's where he should be as he wished.
I'm very surprised those Union soldiers killed Hill..... Many times they crossed paths or vice versa, The junior soldiers would treat the Enemy officer with respect as one of their own. Just like the Union soldiers who rambled into General Early outside of Gettysburg..... They spoke to him as " Sir" and he told them " Get on out of here, you boys know it's dangerous out here". They were very young soldiers..... General Early waved off the men attempting to take them prisoner.
He was reburied there in the last year.
Interesting. I’m very impressed with the presentation. I love hearing the stories about our country’s past. You’ve got your work cut out for you on some of the efforts I’m afraid. Given these times when people want to rewrite the history books. But please don’t give up.
i remember the first time my buddy and i found that location many many years ago. We were so happy to find it. Some kids from the neighborhood directed us to it. This was years before the Trust bought the land there.
This entire area is fascinating.
Good job ....Thankyou!
My ancestors served in Hill's Corps in the 52nd North Carolina Infantry. I think Gen. Hill should be reinterred in Culpepper as was his wish.
I also had a great grandfather in the 52nd. Injured at Gettysburg, captured, sent to Delaware and then pt. Lookout. As bad as Andersonville.
@@williammurray8060 What county was he from?
brave? arrogant? foolhardy? suicidal? mentally exhausted? physically ill? none of it matters...no one can judge...hill simply made a mistake of being too far forward, like others before him (polk, reynolds, and sedgwick) made during that war and like them, it personally cost him everything...
a chronically ill Confederate Lieutenant General.........what did Hill have to look forward to after the war? Grant had not yet offered leniency for the Confederate high command when Hill was killed. Great point.
U forgot one-James McPherson
Jackson, McPherson, turner Ashby, Jeb Stuart
When wasn't hill sick 🤧 great video
My grandfather fought under AP Hills Famous light division with the 14th SC . Hill was known to be well liked by his men and highly respected by all. His men had turned the tide of many battles and saved the entire army of northern Virginia on at least 1 occasion. Different accounts of his death say that there were 4 union troops and hill saw and approached with his sgt of couriers . The men who had broken off earlier were riders he sent to pass word to lee of the situation as he laid eyes on and another to a light artillery battery with instructions as to where to place the pieces to meet the enemy effectively. When he chose to approach and demand the surrender of the men wether two or four he bluffed them and told them the Rest of the cavalry was just over the crest And ordered them to disarm and offered quarter. It is said one lowered his rifle and the other fired , the first having missed the soldier who lowered his rifle again raised and fired striking Hill dead . Hill believed he had to face the enemy and was not going to pass them by unopposed as to Hill his rank did not matter he was a soldier first ! One of the riders he had dispatched back to Lee had been sent to stay at Hills Headquarters by Lee himself with orders to keep hill back and away from danger as he was still leading his men as an officer would rather than how most major generals of entire corps lead there men at the time . He was brave and he died for a cause he believed in . I know he is at peace in heaven with his light division probably guarding the flank or held in reserve to repel any break thru In the pearly gates . Happy confederate Memorial Day
Deo vindice
The "1 occasion" you speak of was undoubtedly at Antietam where they crashed into the left flank of the Union Army who had just taken Burnsides Bridge and were advancing on Sharpsburg. Hill's division was coming up from Harper's Ferry
My gg Grandfather signed up with the 12th SC Infantry when it formed and survived until Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
My ggrandpa was also in the 14th SC. I have a picture of him in his uniform. Deo. Vindice
Those 2 in blue helped shortening the war. Good deed.
The retrieval part was the most interesting to me. Did two guys just volunteer that could do New York or northern accents? Wonder if his buddy looked at him and said you look good in blue😉
If ya look close at the baseball cap, l think it says chicago bears.
Now the first guy is an amped up yankee, geeked on caffeine.
He talks ninety to nothing, hardly can understand his chatterbox lingo!
Excellent video and discussion. Couple of comments regarding Hills personal life. He courted Ellen Marcy who eventually would marry George McClelland. While on furlough at West Point, Hill contracted Gonorrhea which he was never able to shake off the effects. He had to basically miss one semester at the Point and would cause him to be ill much of his life. I agree that Hill was and an outstanding hard hitting Brigade and Division commander but like so many others, was unable to carry those qualities along as a Corp commander.
Shelbey Foote described Hill as "The fightingest division general in Lee's Army." The fire seems to have gone out of Hill half way through the war when he was promoted to Corps Command. He was frequantly on sick leave and isn't heard from much. Love the tales about why his attacks on McClallan were so violent.
He was wounded at Chancellorsville with Stonewall Jackson, he requested JEB Stuart to lead the corps the following days. Civil war generals performed poorly or at least less inspiring than how they were prior (Hancock, Longstreet, even Hooker). On the Hill-Mac-Marcy story, one soldier during the Peninsula Campaign remarked "For God's sake, Nelly why didn't you marry Hill", A.P. Hill performed wildly when Little Mac is on the field.
don't leave Ambrose Burnside off the list of folks Hill attacked with added enthusiasm. Powell Hill loaned Burnside thousands of dollars prior to the war that wasn't paid back.
@@russharbaugh2028 That I didn't know.
@@russharbaugh2028 Could a Southerner think nothing less from a yankee?
He had gonorrhea for many years, Im sure that took a toll on him
Well done
My husband was always curious about the site of where A.P. Hill was killed. When we went there we just saw the roadside marker on I think it was Hwy 1. There were no houses there or anything. Just a field. We never knew there was a marker in the woods marking the spot where he was killed. The thing he was wondering was, was he traveling from his HQ n Petersburg southwest towards the breakthrough area parallel to Hwy 1 and just happened to run in to the Pennsylvania troops or did he travel that same direction but passed the enemy troops and in turning around back towards his HQ, run in to them?
I stopped at that same marker as well. And yup, didn't know about any other markers nearby.
What a story.
Thanks for this. In the late fifties and very early sixties I grew up in a house just down the street from the A.P. Hill statue (which I could see from my front yard). I knew about the story of him supposedly being buried under that monument. However, I've also heard others claim that this is a bit of an urban legend. Does anyone know for sure? I was also aware of the Ginter name, as I went to Ginter Park Elementary School. However. I was not aware of his involvement in supposidly having A.P. Hill buried there. Interesting.
He's 100% there, its the only reason the statue is still in place after 2020, the whole legal process of exhuming a grave is whats complicating the cities efforts to tear it down
He was there he's in Culpepper now they exhumed his body and took his statue down...
@@St.Chriztopher Thanks. Next time I am in Richmond I will try to drive by the old homeplace and see what they have done with that intersection. I understand the traffic circle/roundabout around his statue was unpopular and unsafe. It will be interesting to see if they just took down his statue/gravesite or turned that location into a more standard intersection.
@@gezellig1634 I live on Petersburg 30 miles from the statue I know they removed the pedestal the statue stood on so I can assume they'll just make it an intersection... They sent the statue to the black history museum to be melted down...
@@gezellig1634 One of his descendants was there he tried to fight for it but was unsuccessful he draped his body with the original Virginia flag then they hauled G. Lee away...
A. P. Bill is currently buried at Fairview Cemetery as of 2023.
Hill wore a red shirt during battle in case he was wounded and so no one would see blood...brave man and a great soldier.
Did he also wear brown pants?
@@chicagoman393 best comment ever.
@@chicagoman393 I’m sure a lot of soldiers had brown pants after a battle.
I'm sure you would Chicagoman393 before battle.
Thanks to the marsmanship of a union soldier, Hill got his wish fulfilled. He said he had no desire to live to see the collapse of the Confederacy and he didn't.
I wonder if his attempt to capture the two Union soldiers was in fact his intent to be killed by them, as a glorious death in battle by enemy fire rather than enduring defeat he surely knew was imminent.
And then after the 3rd time he was dug up and reinterred the 4th time in his home town at Culpepper, VA which hopefully will be his final resting place. Very sad he was just weeks away from the end of the Civil War.
...been there...
Up came Hill.
"And then A.P. Hill come up."
I found a confederate buckle near Sharpsburg Maryland with the name Wilson inscribed on the back. I oftentimes wonder if he was one of Hill’s men.
What was A.P. Hills affliction that seemed to last the whole War ? 🤔
Good question, I would like to know as well. I think he was ailing at Gettysburg, which is why he was not particularly effective there.
Some people surmise that it was a venereal disease that he ay have caught as a cadet at West Point. I'm not sure if that is true or not.
@@johnteixeira8974 wow, that would be one long lasting VD.
Hopefully Hill can finally RIP.
i am surprised that the public surrounding the sub division, where they buried Gen. Hill, didn't demand they remove the statue. well give it time for in today's SWJ and PC climate somebody or some group will demand it
They did, and it was. His body was moved, and the statue was torn down.
We need to respect both sides of the civil war. Both sides were Americans. Slave owners made up only 1% of the entire U.S population. 30% of the south, but still the minority.
“The southerners are our countrymen again.” - Ulysses Grant
I agree! All this happened over 161 years ago. Let history live and learn from it. We have came along ways since then. We are improving a lot in someways but destroying ourselves in other ways. People want to be judge and jury for what happen a 161 years ago.
The South succeeded to protect and expand the institution of slavery. While their individual soldiers and generals had many other additiontional reasons they fought, the existence of the Confederacy in inexerably tied to the institution of slavery. It's obvious that this is true when you look at what each state's declaration of succession said.
It's also worth noting that while most soldiers in the South didn't directly own slaves themselves, they understood that their economic livelihoods depended on the institution in one way or another. The Southern economy was built on the backs of slaves. These men knew its abolition would eventually come as the North continued to add free states to the federal government. They figured it was now or never, else they'd be outnumbered and overwhelmed politically.
The North fought to protect the Union. That was always their primary goal. They would eventually add abolition to the list, but at the start of the war, each side was fighting for different reasons.
@Mrdjs1133 Wrong. 7 confederate states didn’t mention slavery and the 6 that did mentioned slavery like the us constitution.
70% of the south didn’t have slavery.
Wrong. 7 confederate states didn’t mention slavery and the 6 that did mentioned slavery like the us constitution.
70% of the south didn’t have slavery.
Nope. 7 confederate states didn’t mention slavery and the 6 that did mentioned slavery like the us constitution.
me and my brother seen the place where general A.P Hill was killed it that we seen this marker during the 1990s
I don't understand why sites like these don't have QR codes that link to these videos.
Lee's final words were: "Tell A. P. Hill to prepare for battle."
Stonewall Jackson mate.
@@simonhague2072 Lee's final words.
" Strike the Tent " are generally accepted as Lee's last words.
@@russharbaugh2028 The two thoughts were uttered in his last breath. " Tell A. P. Hill to prepare for battle," also sometimes quoted as: "Tell A.P. Hill to come up" (to the front.) Then, "Strike the tent." His dying thoughts.
Tell Hill he must come up
Poor Gen A. P. Hill - dug up and moved and then dug up and moved again and I think yet again since this was filmed. Rest in PEACE should mean something. Not that anyone would care but I, myself, plan on a cremation. They can't move you if they can't find you.
I can just imagine the family reunions of Mary Todd Lincoln and her siblings had to deal with from 66 on after all from what I understand she is the big sister of one of the Confederate generals now keep in mind that's just what I found out earlier this year from the Kentucky Historical Society from a descendant of Jonathan Todd her cousin speaking of family reunions just imagine what they were like before 60 after all they were related to two very famous generals from the Revolutionary War that fought out in the frontier against the British so I guess Rebellion runs in the family don't it
😥
And now he's literally been dug up against the wishes of his family.
The classism is a most evident thing in all of this. If you were enlisted you might get a mass grave with a hundred or so others - if you even got buried. If you were an officer you got eulogized and often romanticized. Makes one to reenlist for duration and fight for cause, for sure.
I wonder if the General was wearing his red shirt that day 🤔?
I’ve been to Fort AP Hill and now I know the rest of the story.
Damn....I wish you'd share it then. There is no time like the present.
And now a god damn arthur ashe monument stands in the spot.
Sounds like Hill had a death wish and wanted to go out before the war ended. Since this all happened just seven days before Lee surrendered.
I read that he did not want to live in a defeated Confederacy under Union victors. I don't blame him. Did he know something? Look at the unfettered monstrosity that is the federal government.
Hill had a penchant for being sick throughout the war. And some historians have speculated that he might have had a death wish. He had made a big mistake at Bristoe Station back in late 1863, which resulted in large casualties with nothing to show for it. Perhaps he had that on his mind when he made the decision to rally his Corps.
Really sad to see this video now and to know his grave has been mocked and desecrated and his monument destroyed, a man who literally left his sick bed to go see his own troops
I wonder now what will happen to the military instillation Fort A.P. Hill ?
Conferderate General Subdivision? ... It's not often that someone drops a story that Gary hasn't heard.
From what I have heard, Gen. A. O. Hill was one of the last, and quite possibly, the last, casualty, of the Civil War in the Eastern Theatre of the Civil War. In the Western Theatre of the Civil War, the fighting raged on for several more months, but I do believe that all of the Civil War was concluded by the Autumn of 1865.
A.O. it's probably right lol
There were still more days of fighting after Hill's death. Lee would take his army on the run for another week before he surrendered, and Grant changed him the whole way. There were countless skirmishes with casualties.
not a bad way to go all things considered
Rest In Peace Johnny rebs! I’ll never forget you❤️
Let's never forget that johnny Reb was a traitor who fought so one group of people could supress the rights of another group of people. I am not impressed I don't know why anybody would.
@@paulpalmer6364 and we killed more yank
@@paulpalmer6364 How do you know they were traitors ? It could be the Union that were traitors? Both sides suppressed another group of people . New Jersey kept their slaves until the end of the war. Blacks owed slaves and you can look that up. Petersburg Virginia had a lot of free slaves . A lot of Southerners never own slaves . Southerners took up arms to defend the South while the North was sending their soldiers South. If you were a Southerner you would have grabbed a gun and joined right along with them.
@@73beetle19 you read any southern state constitution or the confederate constitution they all say the same thing. That white people were superior to the black race. That's what the war was about. One group wanted the right to own other group of people. I hope to God I would fight for freedom and not slavery.
@@paulpalmer6364 The Constitution’s biggest flaw was protecting slavery.
He is at rest but we are the ones left to suffer
General Robert E Lee
Confederate Army
Well, following Grant and Sherman's good work, there wasn't much of a Confederate army left by the time Hill is killed. Lee surrendered 6 days later.
@Mrdjs1133 What Sherman did can hardly be called good work More like genocide
This is on an unrelated tangent. Am I the only one who gets frustrated because I frequently hear names pronounced differently than I have been pronouncing them all my life? I'm in my 50s and have been reading Civil War books since my teens. In the past ten years I've heard so many names that I had been pronouncing one way, pronounced differently by someone who seems to know. In this case it's General Henry Heth. Is his name really pronounced like a Heath candy bar? If his name was spelled Heeth (like teeth), I would get it. All my life I've pronounced it Heth, like the word "breath" (substitute an H for the br). Nothing against Will Greene, he's probably right, but it's something I find frustrating because it happens again and again.
I know it was pronounced HEETH in Gettysburg, when Lee was chastising him for bringing on an engagement without orders.
Buford and Reynolds pronounced it that way too.
I have only heard it pronounced like Heath bars.
Gen. A.P. Hill was one of the Confederate Army's best. He died a soldier's death.
He was terrible at Corps command, but he was great prior to that promotion!
I heard he was moved to the Mc Donald’s in Petersburg ! Overlooks the Drive Thru ? 🤗
WOW GREAT....THANK U 1865 APRIL HE ALMOST MADE IT...
A.P. Hill, Rest in peace. Pride of the South.
A.P. Hill is buried at the intersection of Laburnum Ave., and Lakeside Ave. A VERY busy roadway. His statue, I believe is the only Confederate General monument in Richmond that hasn't been destroyed by rioters, or democratic politicians. Very sad, I'll NEVER spend another penny of my money in Richmond. EVER!
I am a Democrat History should be Preserved as for you Republicans Yall started the godam war so STFU
@@jimmysmith9273 I’m not saying Dave is an idiot by any means! But I’m a Historical lover and a Democratic.The simple fact is most Democrats don’t even know their own Party was pro-slavery! But I guess you just can’t fix stupid?!
@@jimmysmith9273 I will make the assumption your a purest History man? Thy should definitely make that parcel of land a Historical Battlefield preservation National Park.
Keep your Confederate money its no good in Richmond.
@@rickbangkok Huh? 🤔 WTF are you smoking bro or putting in your veins? Confederate Money? Dude, it’s 2021???
5:39 I pray Democrats don't tear it down.. American Battlefield Trust should also preserve Confederate Monuments...
Democrats have nothing to do with this
Wrong thing to pray for.
I don't care about the monuments. They should come down to make way for soldiers' memorials. They're who I care about. These generals that led men to the slaughter to protect slavery deserve nothing.
My family was from North Carolina and Georgia. My 7th great grandfather died at Fredericksburg.
There's always been something fishy about AP Hill.
Good shot PA boys.
Hills wife was very pregnant too.
Why is is sad? I can see that it may be fascinating, but sad? Sounds more like justice.
What great confederate to have lost his life to low life intruders who invaded our lands,During that horrible War of Northern Aggression,I country now has the best quality of life in the Rural South,God Blessed all of us native Southerners!!!
Well don’t advertise it to much the New woke jerks might take the monument down,