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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.

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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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Main Author: Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889
Other Authors: Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr., 1930-2012, Johnson, Timothy D., 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Hill, D. H. > (Daniel Harvey), > 1821-1889 > Diaries.
United States. > Army. > Artillery Regiment, 4th.
Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Personal narratives, American.
Soldiers > United States > Diaries.
Hill, D. H. > (Daniel Harvey), > 1821-1889.
Soldiers.
United States.
Diaries.
Personal narratives > American.
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.

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