Fun Fact.

I have noted in several different places that our General Hill may have been affected by the venereal disease Gonorrhea picked up while a cadet at West Point. He contracted the disease while on furlough and it ran a nasty course, causing incredible pain and illness and having the unfortunate consequence of requiring Hill to repeat his third year at West Point.

I don't think this fact is worth mentioning in my article- but it is interesting and worth noting for the disease had life long ill-effects on Hill and may have affected his abilities later in life.

Robertson, James I. General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate General. New
York: Random House, 1987

Guttman, Jon. "The Man Who Shot A.P. Hill. (Cover story)." America's Civil War 22, no. 6 (January 2010): 60-65. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed March 1, 2011).