A fighter from way back : the Mexican War diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill, 4th Artillery, USA / edited by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. and Timothy D. Johnson.
Born in July 1821, Daniel Harvey Hill grew up in genteel poverty on a large plantation in York District, South Carolina. He entered West Point and graduated in the middle of the renowned Class of 1842. Following garrison duty as a junior lieutenant with the First and Third Artilleries, Hill joined t...
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Table of Contents:
- The advance on Monterrey
- The fight for Monterrey
- Christmas in Saltillo
- Back to the coast
- Veracruz
- Cerro Gordo and Puebla
- Nothing in the whole was so brilliant, Contreras
- Strange and almost incredible seems our victory, Chapultepec
- The City of Mexico
- Out hunting guerilleros.