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          5. Early Years

          Ambrose Powell Hill was born on November 9, , at Greenland, his father&#;s plantation near Culpeper. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in , but repeated a year due to illness and therefore was not graduated in with Jackson, George B.

          McClellan, George E. Pickett, and George Stoneman. Instead, he finished in , fifteenth of thirty-eight. (Ambrose E. Burnside and Henry Heth were graduated the same year.) His antebellum U.S. Army service included assignments as quartermaster of the 1st Artillery and with the U.S.

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          In , while stationed in Washington, D.C., Hill proposed marriage to Mary Ellen Marcy, whose father was an Army officer.

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          Her family disapproved, however, and Hill later cited his health as one of the reasons. Marcy ended up marrying McClellan, who was one of Hill&#;s good friends. In , Hill married Kitty Morgan McClung, sister of future Confederate cavalry general John Hunt Morgan.

          His health, meanwhile, continued to be a con