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. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2002. Pp. 248; $39, cloth.)

The Mexican War (1846-1848) ended with the United States seizing nearly one-half of Mexico's territory. Writing sixty years ago in observance of its centenary, historian Alfred Hoyt Bill characterized the conflict as a "rehearsal" that prepared the eventual leaders of the Union and the Confederacy for the Civil War. South Carolinian Daniel Harvey Hill, of York ...

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