Former CSA General D.H. Hill Declines a Request

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HILL, Daniel H. (1821-1889) Lt. General CSA. Distinguished at Big Bethel, June 10, 1861. Commanding General, C.S. Army of the Peninsula, 1861; Commanding General, C.S. Army of Tennessee, 1865. Commandant of the North Carolina Military Institute before the war.Autograph Letter Signed "D.H. Hill", 1pp., on Middle Georgia Military Agriculture College, Gen. D.H. Hill President, letterhead. Hill is responding to a request from Dr. E.G. Strickland. In part, "There is no good picture of me for the best of reasons. I have always objected to having my picture taken. ... I think that the likeness published by the Century Magazine last year is the best of them all ... Regretting that I can not accommodate you."

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