Historical Highway Markers

Where Hill Fell

S-49

In the field a short distance north of this road, the Confederate General A. P. Hill was killed, April 2, 1865. Hill, not knowing that Lee's lines had been broken, rode into a party of Union soldiers advancing on Petersburg.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1929

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