Mahan, Dennis Hart:

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AN ELEMENTARY COURSE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, FOR THE USE OF CADETS OF THE UNITED STATES' MILITARY ACADEMY. Major Philip J. Kearny's copy of Mahan's influential text on civil engineering, inscribed by Kearny on the front free endpaper: "Philip J. Kearny, New Orleans 1860." According to his obituary in the Paterson Guaridan (August 12, 1863), Kearny (1841-63) was the cousin and namesake of Union General Philip Kearny, and had been on "engineering service in Mexico when the rebellion broke out." He returned to the U.S. and was commissioned captain of Company A, 11th New Jersey Infantry on May 27, 1862. He was promoted to major in May 1863, and was severely wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, as were a number of other soldiers from the New Jersey 11th. Kearny was transported to St. Luke's Hospital in New York, where he subsequently died of his wounds on August 9, 1863. George H. Kearny was Philip's brother and sole heir; his stamp appears below Philip's inscription.The "sixth edition, with large addenda and many new cuts" of Mahan's influential treatise on civil engineering. Dennis Hart Mahan (1802-71), noted military theorist and father of naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, was a professor at West Point for more than forty-five years. During Mahan's time at West Point about two thousand cadets graduated, and every student took Mahan's course on field operations, fortifications, and leadership during his final year at the academy. Mahan published his first book

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