Qualla: A. P. Hill Boyhood Home https://qualla.com/a-p-hill-boyhood-home en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/d/a-p-hill-boyhood-home-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: A. P. Hill Boyhood Home https://qualla.com/a-p-hill-boyhood-home A. P. Hill Boyhood Home: Introduction https://qualla.com/a-p-hill-boyhood-home/ Photo credit Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0. The same brick walls in downtown Culpeper, Virginia, raised two American soldiers separated by sixty years and one civil war. The first was Edward Stevens, the Revolutionary War general who built the original portion of the house around 1820. The second was Ambrose Powell Hill, the Confederate lieutenant general known as A. P. Hill, who grew up there after his father bought the house in 1832 and ran a store from its ground floor. Hill went on to command the Third Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was shot dead by a Union corporal at Petersburg on April 2, 1865 - one week before Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/d/a-p-hill-boyhood-home-wp/dqbd-a-p-hill-boyhood-home-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full A. P. Hill Boyhood Home: The General Who Built It https://qualla.com/a-p-hill-boyhood-home/ Photo credit Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0. Edward Stevens served as a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and was one of the senior Virginia militia commanders at the Battles of Camden and Guilford Courthouse. After the war he settled in Culpeper, the county seat of the Virginia Piedmo...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/d/a-p-hill-boyhood-home-wp/dqbd-a-p-hill-boyhood-home-the-general-who-built-it.mp3 0:06 2 full A. P. Hill Boyhood Home: The Hill Family Years https://qualla.com/a-p-hill-boyhood-home/ Photo credit Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1832, Thomas Hill of Culpeper bought the property and made it the home of his growing family. His son Ambrose Powell Hill was seven years old at the time. The Hills used the house as both residence and store - retail commerce on the ground floor, family quarters above. Young A...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/d/a-p-hill-boyhood-home-wp/dqbd-a-p-hill-boyhood-home-the-hill-family-years.mp3 0:06 3 full A. P. Hill Boyhood Home: Hill the General https://qualla.com/a-p-hill-boyhood-home/ Photo credit Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0. A. P. Hill commanded what was known as the Light Division at the Seven Days, Second Manassas, and Antietam - where his last-minute arrival from Harpers Ferry helped save Lee's army from destruction in the war's bloodiest single day. He was promoted to lieutenant general and given...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/d/a-p-hill-boyhood-home-wp/dqbd-a-p-hill-boyhood-home-hill-the-general.mp3 0:06 4 full A. P. Hill Boyhood Home: What the Building Holds https://qualla.com/a-p-hill-boyhood-home/ Photo credit Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Hill house still stands on North Main Street at the corner of West Davis Street in Culpeper's historic downtown. It is three stories, brick, in the Italianate or Tuscan villa style, with the five-by-seven proportions added before the Civil War. The shop space the Hill family ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/d/a-p-hill-boyhood-home-wp/dqbd-a-p-hill-boyhood-home-what-the-building-holds.mp3 0:06 5 full A. P. Hill Boyhood Home: Where It Stands Now https://qualla.com/a-p-hill-boyhood-home/ Photo credit Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0. From the air the A. P. Hill Boyhood Home sits in the dense brick grid of downtown Culpeper, two blocks west of the railroad tracks that still carry CSX freight through town. The building reads as one rectangular brick three-story unit among many along Main Street and Davis Street...

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