Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Brigadier-General William Birney” in chapter 32, page 424 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies:

...Birney, long commander of the famous Kearney's division of the Third Corps, promoted to the command of the Tenth Corps, won a battle, October 7, 1864, and died eleven days after, in Philadelphia. Brigadier-General William Birney , as Inspector-General of Colored Troops in Maryland and at Washington, sent seven thousand into the field. He served with distinction in Florida, and was in Virginia, commanding the Third Division,...
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