Military (2-Jun-1815 — 1-Sep-1862)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

John Watts De Peyster. Personal and Military History of Philip Kearny, Major-General United States Volunteers. New York: Rice and Gage. 1869. 512p.

Thomas Kearny. General Philip Kearny: Battle Soldier of Five Wars. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1937. 496pp.

Irving Werstein. Kearny the Magnificent: The Story of General Philip Kearny, 1815-1862. New York: John Day Co.. 1962. 248pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Wikipedia [link]

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

4. Webster's American Biographies (p.571)

5. The MacMillan Dictionary of Military Biography (p.202)

6. Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography (p.395)

7. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.391)

8. Concise Dictionary of American Biography (p.516)

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