- 525 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Philip Kearny, lover of brave soldiers, colorful uniforms, and beautiful horses, has at last found a tolerable biography. Thomas Kearny's recent book is quite obviously the result of serious research into important sources hitherto unused. The dashing personality of Philip Kearny, the romantic hero who figured in five wars, is vividly portrayed. Kearny saw service with the French in Africa, the United States in Mexico, fought the Indians of the Northwest more than once, and served the Union in the War between the States. In each of these wars he performed creditable and often brilliant service.Too often a writer of biography makes the principal character the hero or the villain. In this case Philip Kearny is ever the hero. Whether fighting, writing his severe criticism of his fellow officers—Generals Casey, Hintzelman, and McClellan, or expressing his belief that the annexation of Texas and the Mexican War were brought about by the machinations of an aggressive slaveocracy whose continued existence and wellbeing they were designed to advance, Kearny is ardently supported by his biographer.However, in spite of the tendency to idolize his subject, Thomas Kearny has produced a worthwhile and much needed biography. In conclusion it should be remarked that this biography is more than a history of the life of Philip Kearny for it includes also some account of the more prominent and historically important members of the Kearny family. The author in particular portrays the brilliant campaign of Stephen Kearny across New Mexico to California, bringing that enormous country under the control of the United States.-George D. Harmon
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I - THE BEGINNINGS AT HOME AND ABROAD
- CHAPTER II - THE FRONTIER; FRENCH CAVALRY SCHOOL; FRENCH CONQUEST OF HER AFRICAN EMPIRE
- CHAPTER III - PHIL.’S JOURNAL; AND CAVALRY TACTICS; AIDE TO TWO COMMANDING GENERALS
- CHAPTER IV - KEARNY’S EXPEDITION ALONG THE OREGON AND SANTE FE TRAILS
- CHAPTER V - THE BATTLE OF MEXICO
- CHAPTER VI - MANIFEST DESTINY
- CHAPTER VII - UNION CLUB; CALVARY CHURCH; WAR DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
- CHAPTER VIII - HAWAII: ROMANCE!; THE LEGION OF HONOR IN THE FRENCH ITALIAN CAMPAIGN
- CHAPTER IX - THE CIVIL WAR; ALEXANDRIA
- CHAPTER X - BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG
- CHAPTER XI - KEARNY’S LETTERS AND THEIR LITERATURE
- CHAPTER XII - “KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES”
- CHAPTER XIII - THE SIX DAYS’ BATTLES...MCCLELLAN “RUNS”
- CHAPTER XIV - THE BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL-MCCLELLAN QUITS
- CHAPTER XV - SECOND BULL RUN: VICTORY IN KEARNY’S HAND, LINCOLN
- CHAPTER XVI - DEATH IN BATTLE
- CHAPTER XVII - “POLITICS-NOT WAR”? “COWARD OR TRAITOR”? KEARNY
- CHAPTER XVIII - “PROPORTIONS OF A LEGENDARY HERO”
- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND MEMORANDA