Excerpt from Personal Military History of Philip Kearny, Major-General United States Volunteers

The writer hesitated for a long time before resumiu g the pen, feel ing that nothing could be done which deserved the name of a biog. Raphy until certain letters, documents, and books could be obtained and examined. Manuscripts, etc., etc., are known to have existed which have eluded the anxious search of the historian. The kind. Ness of friends, and an examination of correspondence, has filled some of the minor gaps, but others still exist, one of which is General ksm'y's Algerian experience, as glorious to himself as interesting to the public. Ou his return to the United States he wrote an ao count of his African campaign, which was privately printed. Not a copy of this, however, is to be found, although diligent search has been made in every quarter, where an exemplar ought to have been preserved. Most of his correspondence was, doubtless, among the papers of an aged relative, his mother's sister, one of the most loyal, noble, and generous of women, deceased in J line, 1866. This was either committed to the flames by her, or burned after her decease as a sacred trust not to be violated when the grave had closed over both. The one who wrote as a son to a mother, and the other to whom the confidential letters were addressed. A valuable letter, which was in hand last fall, has likewise disappeared, whether destroyed or stolen for the autograph, since it possessed a signature in full, 3 very rare thing with Kmmnr's letters, who generally signed Pun, or K.

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