Category: CDVs

Full Name:: Philip Kearny (1815-1862)

Rank: Brigadier General

Description/History:

• Served in the Mexican War.
• Aide de Camp to Winfield Scott, 1847.
• Severely wounded in the left arm,
  that required amputation, at the battle of
  Churubusco, Mexico, August 20, 1847.
• Member of the French Imperial Guard, 1859 – 1861.
• Brigadier General USV, May 1861.
• Army of the Potomac,
  August 1861 – September, 1862.
• In 1862 introduced the first application
  of the Corps Badge.
• Wounded in the chest at the battle
  of Charles Cross Roads, Va., June 30, 1862.
• Major General USV, (posthumously), July, 1862.
• Killed in action during the battle of Chantilly, Va.,
  during a downpour, September, 1862.
  

BM: Addis, Washington

Condition: Some soiling with lower margin trimmed,
else very good.