A Fighter from Way Back (Hardcover)

The Kent State University Press

ISBN 10: 0873387392 / ISBN 13: 9780873387392

Published by Kent State University Press, Kent, OH, 2002

About this Item

Hardcover. 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 the Fourth Artillery at Fortress Monroe in January 1846. Six months later he was en route to Mexico. Published here for the first time, Hill's diary vividly recounts the Mexican War experiences of this proud young officer. He was observant and opinionated, recording details about soldiers, officers, logistics, units, the health of the army, and the progress of the campaign. Hill, who later took up the Confederate cause and earned the sobriquet ""Lee's Maverick General,"" emerged from the Mexican conflict an authentic hero, winning brevet promotions to captain and major for gallant conduct at Contreras (Padierna) and Chapultepec. Young lieutenant Hill came of age in Mexico, and there he encountered firsthand a different culture and witnessed in horror helpless civilians and their treasures washed away in the boiling stream of violence that was war. Hill's fascinating diary recounts these and other experiences in trenchant detail. The efforts of editors Hughes and Johnson have resulted in a valuable addition to the sources available to researchers and scholars of the U.S.-Mexican War. Daniel Harvey Hill's diary recounts the Mexican War experiences of this proud young officer. He came of age in Mexico, and there he encountered firsthand a different culture and witnessed in horror helpless civilians and their treasures washed away in the stream of violence that was war. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Fighter from Way Back (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Kent State University Press, Kent, OH
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873387392
• ISBN 13: 9780873387392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A welcome addition to the eyewitness sources available to researchers and scholars of the U.S.-Mexican War

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 the Fourth Artillery at Fortress Monroe in January 1846. Six months later he was en route to Mexico.

Published here for the first time, Hill’s diary vividly recounts the Mexican War experiences of this proud young officer. He was observant and opinionated, recording details about soldiers, officers, logistics, units, the health of the army, and the progress of the campaign.

About the Author

NATHANIEL CHEAIRS HUGHES JR., retired preparatory school headmaster, has written or edited more than a dozen books on the Civil War, including a biography of Mexican-American War general Gideon J. Pillow.

TIMOTHY JOHNSON, professor of history at Lipscomb University, is the author of a biography of Winfield Scott.