Winter Discovery Auction Nov 14
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/14/2013
Great signature matted with copy of an engraving of Kearny. In the Civil War Kearny distinguished himself during the Peninsula Campaign, rising to major general. In the build-up to that campaign, 2nd Lt. George Armstrong Custer served as Kearny’s aide and it is said that Kearny drummed into Custer the maxim that, “fortune favors the brave.” Ignoring a demand to surrender at the Battle of Chantilly, in the midst of a fierce storm, Kearny was fatally felled by a single bullet which struck his spine in 1862. Ink signature, “P. Kearny ''''Div." in fine condition
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