Possible photograph of A.P. Hill?

[semperpietas]

http://www.civilwarnews.com/archive/...ill-111204.htm

If the identity can be authenticated, a recently discovered image could become a national treasure. Except for the three known images of Gen. Robert E. Lee on Traveller, no known images exist of any of the Confederate high command taken in the field. I believe the quarter plate tintype shown on this page is a previously unknown image of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill, sitting astride his favorite horse, “Champ,” taken around February or March 1865. Hill died during the breakout at Petersburg on April 2, 1865. Before that statement can be made as fact, I need the help of the Civil War community.

[dgfred]

Sure does look like him to me.

[Nickuru]

rec'd, semperpietas, nice article on Ambrose Powell Hill. I believe he had been wounded earlier in the war. Correct me if I am wrong. However his death at Petersburg was a great loss to the CSA. Still, it's a mystery who this is.

Now in contrast, the other Hill, Daniel Harvey Hill survived and has the library here at NC State University named after him. I have swotted many hours in its bookstacks.

[semperpietas]

Originally Posted by Nickuru

rec'd, semperpietas, nice article on Ambrose Powell Hill. I believe he had been wounded earlier in the war. Correct me if I am wrong. However his death at Petersburg was a great loss to the CSA. Still, it's a mystery who this is.

Now in contrast, the other Hill, Daniel Harvey Hill survived and has the library here at NC State University named after him. I have swotted many hours in its bookstacks.

He (A.P.) was wounded at Chancellorsville if I recall correctly. He was definitely one of Lee's best division commanders. However, at the time of his death at Petersburg, Hill's performance as a corps commander had been disastrous when he had been well enough (believed to be a bout with venereal disease) and he was often absent form the field due to the illness, usually with Lee directing the Third Corps in his absence.

[semperpietas]

The only things that seem different from a known photograph here:






Are the sideburns. Same hair cut and sullen eyes. Unless he shaved in the last months of the war when he was able to visit his wife more often at Petersburg.

[dean_1230]

Other similarities include similar eyebrow shape, similar nose shape, similar sunken cheeks (by this, I mean that the bone structure around the cheeks result in similar shadows underneath), broad forehead, etc...

The "new" subject seems to be thinner, but 4 years of war and wound recoveries will do that.

Does anyone have a picture of AP Hill's floppy hat? Supposedly it's in the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond

[Eric Wittenberg]

By April 1865, Hill was moving toward end-stage syphilis that likely would have taken his life not long after the end of the Civil War anyway. If that is, indeed, him, it would reflect the arduous nature of his service combined with the advancing syphilis. It's an interesting study of the toll that war takes on a man.