Four years with the Army of the Potomac. Translated by G. K. Dauchy, with portrait and maps.
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Title: Four years with the Army of the Potomac ... Tran...)
Title: Four years with the Army of the Potomac ... Translated by G. K. Dauchy ... With portrait and maps.
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Trobriand, Philippe Régis Denis; Dauchy, George Kellogg;
1889.
xix, 757 p. ; 8º.
9605.bbb.15.
Army Life In Dakota: Selections From The Journal Of Philippe Regis Denis De Keredern De Trobriand
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Regis Denis De Keredern De Trobriand was an American soldier and author. He was a rich man accustomed to making voyages to Europe, he was editor of the Revue du Nouveau Monde (1849-50), and he was a regular contributor, commenting with a wealth of allusion on opera and whatnot, to Le Courrier des États-Unis.
Background
Regis Denis De Keredern De Trobriand was born on June 4, 1816 at his father’s chateau near Tours, France. He was the son of Joseph Baron de Trobriand and Rochine Hachin de Courbeville.
The history of his family has been traced to Irish warriors who settled on the continent of Europe early enough to accompany William on his conquest of England. They returned thereafter to France, and their descendants were in 1426 made French nobles. Joseph de Trobriand, a student in Paris at the outbreak of the French Revolution, became a soldier in Royalist forces outside France, but after 1806 he served as an officer under successive French governments till 1830. Then—relentlessly hostile to Louis Philippe—he resigned his commission as general, and left the army.
Education
In 1825 Regis was sent to school in Paris, but was driven away for exposing a priest—as he thought—in a betrayal of the confessional.
He was graduated in 1834 from the Collège de Tours, and in law (1837) from Poitiers.
Career
Regis engaged in duels, wrote poetry, and published a novel, Les Gentilshommes de L’Ouest (1840).
In 1841, on something resembling a dare, he came to America. He made the customary tour of the country, wrote a story, “Le Rebelle: Histoire Canadienne” which was published in the Courrier des États-Unis, became acquainted with prominent people, and betrothed himself in New York to the heiress, Mary Mason Jones. After a year spent in touring Europe, they settled in Venice, where they associated intimately with all the available royalty and nobility—exiled and otherwise. In 1847 they returned to New York. There De Trobriand became a member of the facile literary group adorned by N. P. Willis and George P. Morris.
In the summer of 1861, on being elected colonel of the “Gardes Lafayette” of the New York militia, he became an American citizen, and set out to help subdue the Confederacy.
In April 1865 he was made by brevet a major-general of volunteers. In July 1866 he was commissioned colonel in the regular army, but he was in France when this news reached him, and he continued there on leave till June 1867 in order that he might complete his reminiscent Quatre Ans de Campagnes à l'Armée du Potomac (2 vols. , 1867-68). This book, highly praised at the time of its publication, and translated, before long, into English, assumes a philosophy of the war which is often not valid.
Returning to America, he was on duty with the army—between his numerous trips to France—in Dakota, in Montana, in Utah, and in Wyoming.
In 1874, on die death of a cousin, he succeeded to the title of count. In January 1875, as the federal officer charged with upholding an alien government in Louisiana, he performed his work with a tact which won the regard even of his opponents. Upon his retirement from the army in March 1879, he made his residence in New Orleans. He read much, cultivated his roses, visited in France, and spent the summers with his daughter on Long Island.