North Carolina Military Institute / Gen. D.H. Hill School

North Carolina Military Institute, also, Gen. D.H. Hill School. . North Carolina Military Institute Charlotte remembers with honor the gallant lads of the N.C. Military Institute, which once stood near here. After Fort Sumter, the ladies of Charlotte presented the cadets with a secession flag they had made, and it flew over the school prior to N.C.’s secession, May 20, 1861. Daniel Harvey Hill, superintendent, became Colonel of the 1st N.C. Volunteers, leading that unit and the cadets in the first Confederate victory of the war, Bethel VA, June 10, 1861. The boys fought alongside the Charlotte Grays who were under Captain Egbert A. Ross of Charlotte, an 18-year-old former cadet. He was killed at Gettysburg July 1st, 1863 while Major of the 11th N.C. Infantry, and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. D. H. Hill became one of the premier generals in the Confederacy. Many of the boys became officers in various N.C. regiments, and many gave their lives for Dixie. The school became a Confederate hospital during the war. After the War for Southern Independence it served as a military academy again, and was later part of the Charlotte public schools as D. H. Hill School. The building stood until 1954. , Deo vindice , Erected by the Major Egbert A. Ross Camp 1423, Sons of Confederate Veterans , Charlotte, June 10, 1994. , Gen. D.H. Hill School , formerly the N.C. Military Institute , 1859-1861 , Maj. D. H. Hill U.S.A., Supt. , Cadets under his command , volunteered for service , in the Confederate Army , Daniel Harvey Hill , Born 1821 – Died 1889 , Col., First N.C. Regiment, C.S.A. , Lieut. General, C.S.A. , Editor-Educator, 1865-1889 , “No braver soldier ever trod the path of duty” – Ashe. , This plaque, donated by the Stonewall Jackson Chapter, UDC, comprised part of an earlier monument erected in 1927. , This memorial originally located [at] school site, Morehead St. and S. Blvd. Relocated here Feb. 2016.