Brig. General Robert Hopkins Hatton

General Robert Hatton briefly commanded a regiment that served under A.P. Hill. He never directly served under Hill, however.

One of a handful of Ohio officers who fought for the Confederacy, Hatton was born in Steubenville on November 2, 1826. Despite his Ohio birth, he spent most of his adult like in the Volunteer State. He graduated from Cumberland University in Tennessee in 1847 and then went to law school there, being admitted to the bar in 1850. Hatton served in the state legislature in 1855 and was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1857. However, he was elected to Congress in 1859 as a member of the "Know Nothing" Party, serving until 1861.

Hatton initally opposed secession. He changed his mind, however, after Lincoln invaded the Southern states.

He formed an infantry unit called the Lebanon Blues. Hatton was soon elected the colonel of the 7th Tennessee in May 1861, a post at which he served for a year, seeing action at Cheat Mountain under W.W. Loring. On May 23, 1862, Hatton was promoted to brigadeir general. Eight days later, while leading his brigade through tangled woods at the battle of Seven Pines on May 31, 1862, Hatton was shot and instantly killed. His brigade became Archer's Brigade of the famous Light Division.

After temporary burial in Knoxville due to Union occupation, Hatton was moved and buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery at Lebanon in 1866. The local UCV group erected a monument to him there in 1912.