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| John R. Kenly is the most famous Marylander you have never met. During the Mexican War he fought in General Zachary Taylor's army as a company commander at the battle of Monterey in the famed Baltimore and Washington Battalion and later as a major in the DC and MD Regiment under Winfield Scott. At the beginning of the Civil War he was commissioned colonel of the First Maryland Infantry Regiment. At the battle of Front Royal in May of 1862 he fought General Stonewall Jackson's army for an entire day with little more than a thousand men and saved General Bank's command from complete destruction. For this gallant action he was promoted by President Lincoln to brigadier general and given command of the Maryland Brigade. When Kenly died in 1891 he was the highest-ranking volunteer officer from Maryland to return alive from the Mexican War and the highest-ranking volunteer officer from his state to serve in the Union Army. This book recounts the life of this great Marylander before, during, and after each of the wars in which he served. Softbound, 6x9", written by Daniel Carroll Toomey (2009), 229 pages, 30 illustrations. |
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