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LisaRudisill (talk | contribs) Added D. H. Hill's other Confederate General brother-in-law, Lt. Gen. Rufus C. Barringer. 3 sister of the Morrison Family (their father was Presbyterian minister, 1st President of Davidson College near their home, married 3 Confederate generals: Barringer, Jackson & D.H. Hill |
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On November 2, 1848, he married Isabella Morrison, who was the daughter of [[Robert Hall Morrison]], a Presbyterian minister and the first president of [[Davidson College]], and through her mother, a niece of [[North Carolina]] Governor [[William Alexander Graham]]. They would have nine children in all. One son, [[Daniel Harvey Hill Jr.]], would serve as president of North Carolina State College (now [[North Carolina State University]]). Their youngest son, [[Joseph Morrison Hill|Joseph Morrison]], would preside as the Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1904 to 1909.
Another military man who would become a Confederate Lieutenant General, Rufus Clay Barringer of Kannapolis married Eugenia Morrison in 1854. They had two children, Paul and Anna. Eugenia died of typhoid fever in 1858.
In July 1857, Isabella's younger sister, [[Mary Anna Jackson|Mary Anna]], married Professor [[Stonewall Jackson|Thomas J. Jackson]] of the [[Virginia Military Institute]].{{r|bridges195605}} Hill and Jackson, who would later earn the nickname "Stonewall" as a Confederate officer, had crossed paths during the Mexican–American War and later developed a closer friendship when both men lived in [[Lexington, Virginia]] in the 1850s.<ref>Bridges, ''Lee's Maverick General,'' pp. 21-25, 277.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Justices, Judges and Officers of the Courts (1686-2006) |publisher=Arkansas Judiciary |url=https://courts.arkansas.gov/courts/supreme-court/historical-society/background-pg-2 |access-date=April 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406053115/https://courts.arkansas.gov/courts/supreme-court/historical-society/background-pg-2 |archive-date=April 6, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Also in 1857, Jackson endorsed ''Elements of Algebra'' as "superior to any other work with which I am acquainted on the same branch of science."{{r|bridges195605}}
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