Kearny, Philip. Letters from the Peninsula: The Civil War Letters of General Philip Kearny. Edited by William B. Styple. Kearny, N.J.: Belle Grove Publishing, 1988. P. 30 Very critical of McClellan, Stone, Ball’s Bluff, 30 Kearny claim credit for getting the rebels to retire from Manassas, 31 Death of Kearny’s son, 32 Thinks Franklin envious of him, 31 Complains about promotion, 33 Critical of McClellan, 34 Criticism of McClellan, 36, 41-42 Officials opening our mail and he blames McClellan, 44 Another broadside against McClellan, 45. Notes how he was respected in Mexico but is now slighted, 47 Rails against politicians and abolitionists, 47 Disparages McClellan’s Peninsula campaign, 50 Disparages his company officers, 50 Wounded men, Magruder, blames politicians for the war, 51 Officer appointments, 51 Disparages generals and corps commanders, 52 Sumner, Banks, Keyes, Heintzelman, McDowell, McClellan, Franklin, 52 Franklin, 53-54 Has seen Hooker, French, blasts McClellan, 54 Division command Heintzelman, 55 Division command,, 56 War run by men of small caliber including Stanton, 56 Critical of McClellan and siege, 56-57 Williamsburg, Franklin, 58-59 Bungling at Williamsburg, Hooker, Hancock, 60-63 Kearny report on Williamsburg [in OR], 66-69 Still complaining about not getting proper credit for Williamsburg and about McClellan. 72-88 Fair Oaks (Seven Pines), Heintzelman, 89-90 Silas Casey, Heintzelman, Kearny rescuing blunderers against, 91-92 Claims to have saved McClellan from disgrace again, 92 Report on Fair Oaks [in OR], 94-97 Confederate prisoner, 100 Kearny, Fair Oaks, McClellan, 101-2 Advice to a young officer, 107 Accuses McClellan of treason or political manipulation, 108-110. Complains about Congress, McClellan, and Williamsburg, 116 McClellan, Heitzelman, Hooker, Kearny claims he has saved the army several times, 118 Battle of Glendale, Kearny report, [in OR], 120-23 Malvern Hill, Kearny report [in OR], 124 Still blasting McClellan and resent various army cliques, 125 Complaining again about McClellan and not being promoted, 133 Many friends in southern army, 137 Castigates Pope and Fitz John Porter, 137 1 Critical of Heintzelman, 137-38 Complains again to his wife about serving with brutes who do not appreciate him, 140 Franklin and McClellan, 142 Conscription, 142 Northern sloth and Confederate confidence, 143 Not sure why Confederates do not attack, 143 Should use blacks as pioneers, 144-45 Still complains of being ignored and cheated by McClellan, 145-46 Porter, Sumner, Heintzelman, Franklin, 146 Assessment of corps commanders, 146-47 Defeat of McClellan ended mild war and possibility of compromise with rebels, 148-49 Still complaining about McClellan not publishing reports of battle of giving him credit, 152 Conscription and use of blacks, 152 Bad Cameron and McClellan selection of generals, 153 Confederates have many men and fears Pope does not have enough, 155 Hooker, 158 Pope, Second Bull Run, says he does all the hardest fighting as usual, 162-71 Chantilly, Death of Kearny, 172-199 2 .