Between 1863 and 1889, Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill defended himself against real and perceived attacks on his reputation in connection with the Lost Dispatch and the Battle of Chickamauga, two controversial events of the Civil War. As a crusader of sorts, Hill actively shaped the historical memory of the Civil War in part by aggressively pursuing personal vindication through correspondence with politicians and colleagues and through printed statements in his own and other publications. Hill connected criticism of his military reputation with that of his personal reputation, and vice versa. For Hill, these two sides of his reputation were intimately linked by the desire to uphold the family name, not only for his children, but in relation to his war record and the units he commanded. He was keenly aware of his potential role in the memory-making of the war because he was one of its architects. Therefore, he consciously made the struggle to clear his reputation part of his crusade to sculpt southern and national memory of the Civil War.