Robert R. Laven

Major General Philip Kearny

A Soldier and His Time in the American Civil War

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Produktbeschreibung

Union General Philip Kearny began his career as a lieutenant with the 1st U.S. Dragoons. He studied cavalry tactics in France and fought with the Chasseurs d'Afrique in Algeria, where his fearlessness earned him the nickname "Kearny le Magnifique." Returning to America, he wrote a cavalry manual for the U.S. Army and later raised a troop of dragoons--using his own money to buy 120 matching dapple-gray mounts for his men--and led them during the Mexican War, where he lost an arm. This biography chronicles the military life of one of the most talented field officers in the Army of the Potomac at the outbreak of the Civil War, who famously led a charge at the Battle of Williamsburg with his reins in his teeth, and sometimes disobeyed General George McClellan, once protesting an order to retreat as "prompted by cowardice or treason." Kearny was on the verge of higher command when he was killed at the 1862 Battle of Chantilly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781476680286
• ISBN-10: 1476680280
• Artikelnr.: 60589907

Autorenporträt

U.S. Army veteran and retired Department of Defense Intelligence analyst, Robert R. Laven lives in Creve Coeur, Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
I. Beginnings
II. Influences
III. A Soldierly Figure
IV. Valley of the Sun
V. Camp Seminary
VI. Williamsburg
VII. Seven Pines
VIII. Pivot at Gaines' Mill
IX. Glendale
X. Malvern Hill
XI. A Long Roll of Thunder
XII. Manassas, August 29: Pope Engages
XIII. Manassas, August 30: Longstreet Attacks
XIV. Requiem
Epilogue
Appendix A: Lost Letter of Lt. Philip Kearny
Appendix B: Extracts from Official Reports-Mexican War
Appendix C: Documents, Reports, etc.-American Civil War
Appendix D: Kearny Testimonials
Appendix E: Kearny and First New Jersey Regiment
Appendix F: Kearny Assigned to III Corps, 3rd Division
Appendix G: Union and Confederate Order of Battle (Selected Units)
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index