Arizona republican., 1892-12-07

krue or not, it might have been, and must
Aave been II jackson was on the spot at
d. Gen. Robert K. Lee promptly sent the
Body into the Union lines under a flag of
Guce without waiting for a request. Nc
Clellan wept uncomfortable tears when he
stoOd before the bier In Washington. When
Ttonewall's' career was ended by ran
dom outpost shot at Charlottesville, a
Ew months later, the world was not more
Fortified that war should be SO cruel nor
DE south more staggered by the blow than
Ihe north was staggered and the world
Fortified over the skirmish line tragedy
dat removed the most picturesque figure
q our time from the stage of war. Kearny
Sad it in him to make another Murat to
&me modern Napoleon, and surely some
de Numbered when he went begging for
&rhance to draw sword in 1851. and cav
stry volunteers were snubbed and told,
~ffhls is not war for horseback fighting"
the troopers had their day in the end, but
peanwhile Kearny, fretting and chafing
behind slow moving infantry, had thrown
Is life away ignobly running after that
Excitement which comes legitimately to a
Sarshal Of squadrons.
Kearny's career was an original one and
u some respects un-American in character.
us youth was passed in isolation, ward
d. the country estates of his grandfather.
&c inherited soldier blood, but his grand
other wished to settle him as an Episco-
falian clergyman The old man had lost
q his sons, one on the field of battle, and
Ie thought that his grandson would have
q good, safe time" in the ministry The
&d had other notions, and his rural isola-
Con was enlivened by object LESSONS in war.
u lie spent the leisure Of many years in his
Gems exercising on mimic battlefelds, with
thousands Of leaden soldiers, artillery
trains, spring guns, elaborate fleldworks
tnd Notifications. He carried his war plant
g. college even He idolized two masters in
Har-Tilly, a Germany of the Seventeenth
century, styled the "Old Devil" on account
q his cruelty, and Count Lippe, of the
Eighteenth century, renowned disciplin.
Bian, tactician and commander. While
yevereucing these heroes, both Of the schol-
srly type OF soldiers, KeaTny yearned to be
a dashing hussar and perform reckless
cavalry charges He early became noted
a. a horse killer and as boy ran his grand
kathers blooded stock at a breakneck pace
over the toughest courses he could find
When in Europe, at nineteen years Of age,
Ie would sacrifice rest and food in order to
Re on the battle-ground and witness cavalry
exercises.
Kearny was just twenty-one when his
grandfather died, and though born TO am
PIE fortune he put everything aside and
took a second lieutenant's commission in
the cavalry, the famous FIRST United
States dragons, then led by his uncle, S.
". Kearny. That was in 1885, dull
Zine for American soldiers. Kearny was
fortunately chosen to study cavalry tactics
abroad and went to Paris. In 1910 he
served through the French campaign In
Algiers as an aid on the staff OF the Duke
Qf Orleans, and had his baptism OF fire in
driving the fierce Arabs from the noun
tain Of N1uzaia, another celebrated "bat-
ale above the clouds"
After KearnY's return home in 1S41
there was stagnation in the army for five
Years, and he resigned his commission in
disgust on the eve Of the Mexican war.
Gen. Scott quickly reinstated him, and he
raised company Of dragons, all picked
men on mounts Of iron gray. The dragons
Joined Gen. Taylor on the Rio Grande, only
TO be recalled, without getting in saber
stroke, to march with Scott upon the City
Of Mexico. Kearny's troop was with Gen.
Pillows division, and the 'grays" quickly
became famous under their dashing lead
us. At dinner given the American off
GERS in Pueblo Kearny descanted upon the
dullness Of the work assigned the cavalry
and said that he would gladly give an arm
to win Tevet. But the mountain passes