The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-02
Gen. Kearny, Americas Fafayette," Born LOG
 Years Ago Today

France, Italy and the United States will join in the observance today of the centenary of the birth of General Philip Kearny, one of the most dash ing, brilliant, brave and knightly sol diers who ever wore the uniform of the United States army. Under the banner of France 1O fought for the freedom of Italy from Austrian dom ination, and disting guished himself on those bloody battlefie1ds of Europe where the armies of Francis Joseph were so disastrously defeated. He re- paid in some measure the debt of the American republic to France, and played a role in Europe similar to that of Lafayette in America
 Philip Kearny was born in New York city on June 2, 1915. He graduated from Columbia College and studied law, but the career of 8 sol dier made a stronger appeal to his adventurous nature, and in 1887 he became a, second lieutenant in the First United States Dragons, com rnanded by his uncle, Stephen Watts Kearny. Shortly after his entrance into the army he was sent to France to study military science, and espe- cia11y to report on the system of tactics pursued in the French cavalry service. He was for some time stu dent in the Ecole Polytechnique, in Paris, but he hungered for real ex- perfence and to gain this end enlist ed as a volunteer in the ranks of that picturesque so1diery, the Chasseurs d'Afrique. After serving brilliantly through an Algerine campaign, in which he fought Arabs aroused to wild fury by the preaching of holy war, Kearny returned to America in 1S4O
 From 1s41 to 1s44 he was aide to General Scott, and in 1846< reached the rank of captain. He served throughout the Mexican campaign on Gen. Scott's staff, and was pronounce ed by that officer 'tthe finest soldier major for his gal1antry at Churu- busco and Contreras. After the Mex ican war he became famous as an In dian fighter, commanding a. force sent against the savages of the Co., 1umbus river, and serving in Califor- nia and Oregon.
 During his residence in France he became a. devoted admirer of that country and its people, and in 1851 he resigned his commission in the American army and went to Europe. He remained in France for ten years, serving as volunteer aide-de-camp on the French staff throughout the Ital- ian campaign of 1859. He distin guish- ed himself in the great battles of Magenta. and Solferino, where the French and SardinTan allies routed the AustTians.
 
 Kearny returned to his native land and immediately offered his sword to the country. In May of 1881 he was appointed a brigadier general of vol | unteers. His military sagacity and dashing courage were much in evil dence in the battles of the Chicka,- honniny campaign. On July 4, 1862, he was commissioned a. maj r-general 1 of volunteers Early in the following | September he was killed while mak- l ing a. personal reconnaissance within the Confederate lines at Chanttlly. With his passing the Union army lost one of it's best and bravest officers and his death was mourned in France and Italy as we'll as in his native land.
 This is the thirty third anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Garibaldi the great soldier whose life was dedi- 1 cated to the cause of the liberty and l 1Initv of ItaIY.