General Ambrose Powell Hill, Junior

April 2nd, 1865 – General Ambrose Powell Hill, Junior Was Mortally Wounded As The Siege Of Petersburg Ended

Hamilton Historical Records

On April 2nd, 1865, General Ambrose Powell Hill, Junior was mortally wounded as the Army of Northern Virginia was retreating from one of the sites, where the months long “Siege of Petersburg” ended, after the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Five Forks.

The Pamplin Historical Park, and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, are both next to the site where the Virginia Conservation and Development Commission placed a historical marker, a few yards from the place where General Ambrose Powell Hill, Junior was shot by Union soldiers, in the year 1929.

Published by Hamilton Historical Records

I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.

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