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Philip Kearny Jr.
June 2, 1815 – September 1, 1862
Born New York City, New York
Died Chantilly, Virginia (KIA, Civil War)
First Lieutenant / Captain, 1st U.S. Dragoons; Mexican–American War — Contreras and Churubusco, August 1847 (lost left arm); later Major General, U.S. Volunteers
Before the Civil War made his name a byword in New Jersey and Virginia camps, Philip Kearny learned hard cavalry work in Mexico. A New York–born Regular in the 1st Dragoons, he fought at Contreras and Churubusco in August 1847. In the Churubusco fighting he took a wound that cost him his left arm — a loss recorded in Army medical and pension files, not later legend. Congress later awarded him a sword for that campaign; the public record already had the date and the ground.
This register files the Mexican War dragoon chapter first: unit, battles, and the Churubusco wound. Kearny returned to field command in 1861–62 and was killed at Chantilly on September 1, 1862. He is buried at Arlington. The NARA portrait on Wikimedia Commons is public domain. He is not listed as missing.
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- NN-HERO-1846-007
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