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| | Phillip Kearny Biography Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Kearny was born in New York, 2 June 2, 1815 and after his mother died when he was 9, he spent his childhood and youth with his maternal grandfather, a man of wealth and high social position. |
 | | Kearny's uncle, Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, was a U.S. dragoon and Philip favored a military life, but his grandfather, who had lost all his sons, persuaded him to go to Columbia University. |
 | | In the Mexican War, Kearny accompanied Scott to Mexico City and at Churubusco was wounded so severely that his left arm had to be amputated. |
| www.civilwarhome.com /kearnybio.htm (353 words) |
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