This carte de viste is a waist-up view of General Hill in uniform. He is wearing a double-breasted frock with visible collar insignia. Image is clear with slightly light contrast. Image is pasted onto a plain pink mount. This pink paper is often described as “blockade paper” as it was stock run through the blockade from England. There is no photographer's backmark.

Daniel Harvey Hill (July 12, 1821 – September 24, 1889), commonly known as D. H. Hill, was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the eastern and western theaters of the Civil War. Hill was known as an aggressive leader, being severely strict, and deeply religious. He was brother-in-law to Stonewall Jackson, a close friend to both James Longstreet and Joseph E. Johnston, but disagreements with both Robert E. Lee and Braxton Bragg cost him favor with Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Although his military ability was well respected, Hill was underutilized by the end of the Civil War on account of these political feuds.

From 1866 to 1869, Hill edited a magazine, The Land We Love, at Charlotte, North Carolina, which dealt with social and historical subjects, and had a great influence in the South. In 1877, he became one of the first presidents of the University of Arkansas, a post that he held until 1884, and, in 1885, president of the Military and Agricultural College of Milledgeville, Georgia until August 1889, when he resigned due to failing health. General Hill died at Charlotte the following month, and was buried in Davidson College Cemetery.  [jet]   [ph:L]

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