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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1864. (search)
ny A, Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel David B. Birney. He was soon detached from the regiment t of the seven days battle at Richmond, Lieu tenant Birney found time to write to his mother: The nearest shotged many of us, myself among the number. Colonel David B. Birney having become Brigadier-General, LieutenantLieutenant Birney wrote, I hope soon to be brother's Aid. August 1, 1862, he was commissioned as Assistant Adjutant-Gened correct. In the second battle of Bull Run, Captain Birney's collarbone was broken by the falling of his h Major-General was followed by the promotion of Captain Birney. His commission as Assistant Adjutant-General, disgraceful failure. On Christmas-day, 1863, Major Birney married Laura, youngest daughter of the late Jacted by members of the Carroll family, cousins of Major Birney's mother.) He reached Duddington on the 6th of Jied in the service. Noblesse oblige. Major-General David B. Birney, long commander of the famous Kearney's