biography
pronunciation:
[kah(r)nee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1814–62)
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| biography:
| Soldier, born in New York City, USA. He became a cavalry officer, serving on the W frontier, then with the French army in Algiers. He lost his left arm in the Mexican War, and served with the French Imperial Guard at the Battles of Magenta and Solferino (1859). Returning to the USA at the outbreak of the Civil War, he was commissioned a brigadier general in the Union Army of the Potomac, and commanded first a brigade, then a division through some dozen battles, before being killed in action at Chantilly. |
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