@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt2tvfzd.7,
 ISBN = {9781578069682},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvfzd.7},
 abstract = {One of the most aggressive and combative officers in both the Mexican War and the Civil War was Philip Kearney. He certainly was not in the army because he had to be. Kearney had graduated from Columbia University in 1833 and later inherited a million dollars from his grandfather. Kearney was “a soldier for the love of soldiering” (Bill 15).Prior to Mexico, Kearny had been sent to Europe to study European tactics and had actually served with the French army in Algiers in 1840. After Mexico, he resigned from the U.S. Army and again fought with the French in},
 bookauthor = {KEVIN DOUGHERTY},
 booktitle = {Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience},
 pages = {51--55},
 publisher = {University Press of Mississippi},
 title = {Philip Kearny and Reckless Courage},
 year = {2007}
}