A gallant career is recalled by the recent lying-in-state in New York of the remains" of Major-General Philip Kearney. America never had a more fiery leader of cavalry than the man who was the hero of the charge at Charubusco in the war with Mexico in 1846. and who met his death at Chantilly sixteen yeailater—dashing by mistake into a group of Confederates,'and shot as he tried to escape. For fifty vcars his body has lam in Trinity Church, New York. Now it has been "conveyed to the National Cemetery at Arlington, where his monument will be a call to valour which his countrymen may well revere.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 149, 22 June 1912, Page 16
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